
Speakers 2023

Prof. Erik van de Loo
Psychoanalyst & Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD, Co-Founder & Program Co-Director of “The Executive Master in Change”

Sergei Loznitsa
Director, Author & Producer/ Ukraine

Dawn Porter
Documentary filmmaker, founder of Trilogy Films/ USA

Rula Ghani
Former First Lady of Afghanistan, Past President of WBFN (World Bank Family Network) 2008-2010, social worker

Dr. Ashraf Ghani
Former President of Afghanistan

HE Dr. Fatou Bensouda
Gambian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom/ Gambia

Elizabeth Klinck
Archive Producer & Owner E Klinck Research/ Canada

Louise Rosen
Editorial & business consultant, producer, sales agent/ USA

Lucio Mollica
Documentary Director & Producer/ Germany

Angela Steidele
Author/ Germany

Maryam Ebrahimi
Producer & director, Cat Eye Production/ Sweden

Gian Micalessin
War Correspondent, Il Giornale / Italy

Eva Wolfangel
Science & tech journalist/ Germany

Ruth Berry
Producer, director & writer/ Australia, Germany

Anil Ananthaswamy
Author & Journalist/ India

Joanna J. Bryson
Expert in Intelligence — both natural and artificial, Professor of Ethics and Technology, The Hertie School of Governance/ UK, Germany

Elisabeth Hagstedt
Head of Content & Broadcast, Histoire TV/ France

Mohammed Ali Naqvi
Producer & Director/ Pakistan

Passant Elagroudy
HCI/AI Postdoc, DFKI - German Centre for Artificial Intelligence/ Germany

Chris Hastings
Executive Producer & Editorial Manager PBS World Channel/ USA

Lucie Kon
Commissioning Editor BBC Storyville/ Great Britain

Bence Máté
documentary filmmaker, former Middle East correspondent/ Hungary

Pál Dániel Rényi
Editor, Political Reporter, and Investigative Journalist/ Hunga

Prof. Dr. Jan Hegemann
Founding partner & lawyer in media law, Raue/ Germany

Fabrice Puchault
Head of Commissioning for documentaries & magazines, Arte/ France

Andreas Hamburger
Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Moderator, International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin (IPU)/ Germany

Hérade Feist
Deputy Editor in Chief, Arte/ France

William Irigoyen
Moderator, Journalist (Anchor, Reporter), Arte/ France

Igor Bergant
Journalist, TV News Host, RTV Slovenia/ Slovenia

Jason Steinhauer
Founder & CEO, History Communication Institute/ USA

Stephanie Serafyn Black
Archaeologist & public historian, Durham University/ UK

Alex Hryniewicz
Director of Content, Little Dot Studios/ UK

Igor Cașu
Director of the National Agency for Archives & Lecturer at the State University of Moldova, Chișinău/ Moldova

Cara Mertes
Founding Director of the International Resource for Impact and Storytelling (IRIS), award-winning producer & director/ US

Jade Nair
Curator of Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town/ South Africa

Ania Szczepanska
Researcher & Documentary Filmmaker, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne/ France, Poland

Gunnar Dedio
Managing Director PROGRESS - LOOKSfilm/ Germany

Dr. Dorna Safaian
Researcher Visual & Media Studies, University of Freiburg/ Germany

Adel Ksiksi
Manager of Programming, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel/ Qatar

Danny Graydon
Senior Lecturer (Screen)/ Contextual Studies Lead, BA (Hons) Digital Animation Moderator, University of Hertfordshire / Great Britain

Tom Matzek
Commissioning Editor, ORF/ Austria

Khuê Phạm
Writer & Journalist, Die ZEIT/ Germany, Vietnam

Adam Gee
Commissioning Editor, Creative Artists Agency/ Great Britain

Susan Neiman
Philosopher, Writer, Director, Einstein Forum/ Germany, USA