Speaker Bios – The Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy

Syria

Jacques Beres

Surgeon who worked in Homs

Vietnam

Michel Tran Duc

French-Vietnamese human rights activist

Iran

Saba Farzan

Freelance Journalist

North Korea

Joo-Il Kim

North Korean defector

Syria

Hadeel Kouki

Syrian activist, brutally tortured in prison

Cuba

Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina

President of the Movement of Young Cubans for Democracy

Iran

Ebrahim Mehtari

Activist in Iran’s Green Movement, arrested and tortured by the regime

Moderator

Guy Mettan

Journalist and Executive Director of the Club Suisse de la Presse

Zimbabwe

Jestina Mukoko

Zimbabwean activist

Egypt

Maikel Nabil

Activist and leader of the 2011 Egyptian revolution

Human Rights

Hillel Neuer

Executive Director, UN Watch

Burma

Zoya Phan

Leading activist for democracy in Burma

Moderator

Philippe Robinet

Director General, Calmann-Lévy books

Human Rights

Jacqueline Thibault

Founder, Fondation Surgir

Pakistan

Anne-Isabelle Tollet

French journalist and author who worked as a correspondent in Pakistan

Kalden Tsomo

Tibetan Activist

China

Ren Wanding

Chinese dissident and scholar imprisoned for pro-democracy activism