Radwan Masmoudi is the founder and president of the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID), a Washington-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting freedom, democracy, and good governance in the Arab/Muslim world. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Center’s quarterly publication, Muslim Democrat. In 1998, Masmoudi established the Center for the…
Sook-Jong Lee is a Senior Fellow at the East Asia Institute, an independent think tank based in Seoul, Korea, that serves as a representative institution of the Asia Democracy Research Network. Lee is also a professor of public administration at Sungkyunkwan University and leads governance-related research networks in academia. Previously, she held a number of…
Dismas Kitenge is a co-founder of Groupe LOTUS, a non-governmental organization that works to defend human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He also serves as an advocate at the national and international level at various institutions, including the African Union, the African Commission for Human and People’s Rights, the European Union, the…
Maina Kiai is a co-director of InformAction, a non-profit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. From 2011 to 2017, Kiai served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. As the inaugural UN Special Rapporteur for his issue, Kiai developed a strong mandate that brought the voices…