Sunil Abraham is the Executive Director at the Centre for Internet and Society based in Bangalore. The Centre for Internet and Society aims to critically engage with concerns of digital pluralism, public accountability and pedagogic practices, in the field of Internet and Society, with particular emphasis on South-South dialogues and exchange. Mr. Abraham is a social entrepreneur and Free Software advocate. He founded Mahiti in 1998, which aims to reduce the cost and complexity of Information and Communication Technology for the Voluntary Sector by using Free Software. He was elected an Ashoka fellow in 1999.

Renata Avila is a Guatemalan lawyer working in human rights who is an active advocate for freedom of expression, privacy, access to knowledge and respect for indigenous rights. She is the Country Lead
of Creative Commons Guatemala and also co-heads the Technology for Transparency Initiative and Librebus Project. She currently provides pro bono advice to the Guatemalan Congress on upcoming privacy legislation. She has worked with the Rigoberta Menchu Tum Foundation, the Harvard University's Berkman Center, Soros Foundation and the World Association of Newspapers & Publishers WAN-IFRA. She is a contributing writer for Global Voices on Line, the OpenNet Initiative and other publications She actively promotes the involvement of girls and women in technology and is interested in the improvement of societies through access to knowledge, the sharing of differences and acceptance of plural visions.

Stewart Baker is a partner in the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson with a practice covering technology, law enforcement, and national security. From 2005 to 2009, he was the first Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security. From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Baker was General Counsel of the National Security Agency. In both positions, he had substantial responsibilities for the cybersecurity policies of the United States government. Mr. Baker has written on cyberwar for Foreign Policy magazine and is the author of Skating on Stilts -- Why We Aren't Stopping Tomorrow's Terrorism, a book on the security challenges posed by new technology.

Mohamed El Dahshan is a development economist and a writer. Based primarily in the Middle East, he currently works as a consultant for the African Development Bank in Tunis; before that he has worked for various international organizations, national governments, and think tanks. He is also a lecturer at Cairo’s Ain Shams University. As a writer and analyst, he contributes to a wide array of publications and was published in the New York Times, the Guardian, Yale Global, Al-Masry Al-Youm, among many others. A social media enthusiast, he blogs regularly for his own website and for Foreign Policy Magazine, writing about the Middle East, economic development, and technology. He also tweets too much for his own good. In 2011 he received an Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Journalism Award for his coverage and analysis of the Egyptian revolution for traditional and social media. He is the co-author of “Diaries of the Revolution”, a collective memoir of the 2011 Egyptian uprising, which was published in Arabic and in Italian.

Mr. Noomane Fehri is currently an elected member of the Tunisian National Constitutional Assembly. The Assembly is the first elected parliament of Tunisia, its primary objective is to write the new constitution and act as a Parliament during the democratic transition phase which followed the 14th of January, 2010 revolution which sparked the Arab spring. Mr. Noomane has a strong Information technology background, combined with sector knowledge such as Energy, Telecoms, and banking. Mr. Noomane’s professional career started in 1991 with Schlumberger where he held various technical, sales and general management positions in France, Libya, Norway, Algeria, Indonesia, and Great Britain. In 2004 he joined KPMG Consulting and then Atos Origin a global technology firm where he held business development and general management positions, among them Director of Innovation for Atos UK. He was a board member of the UK National Computing Center in Great Britain from 2005 to 2007, a founding member of "London MagNet Society” in UK; President of ATUGE-UK in 2008-2009. He was also a member of the “Comité Haut Niveau de Science et Technologie” an advisory board to the Tunisian Prime minister on technology matters.

Gary Fowlie has been the head of the Liaison office of the International Telecommunication Union to the United Nations since 2009. ITU is the UN specialized agency for information and communication technology. Mr. Fowlie is an Economist and Journalist. He was a Producer/Reporter for the news service of the Canadian Braodcasting Corporation for 10 years and a freelance reporter for The Economist. Prior to joining the International Telecommunication Union in 2001, Mr. Fowlie worked as an Account Director for the technology practice of the global consulting firm Hill and Knowlton. His clients included Microsoft, SAP and many others. Mr. Fowlie was responsible for communications for the UN World Summit on the Information Society (2003 and 2005) and from 2005 until 2009 was the Chief of Media Liaison for the United Nations in New York. Mr. Fowlie is a graduate of the Universities of Alberta, Alabama and the London School of Economics.

Susan Glasser is editor in chief of Foreign Policy, the magazine of global politics, economics, and ideas. A longtime foreign correspondent and editor for the Washington Post, Ms Glasser joined Foreign Policy in 2008 and has been spearheading the magazine’s ambitious expansion in print and online at ForeignPolicy.com. During her tenure, the magazine has won numerous awards for its innovative coverage, including three digital National Magazine Awards, and was recently honored for online general excellence by the Overseas Press Club. Ms Glasser spent four years as co-chief of the Post's Moscow bureau and covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for the Post in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 before returning to Washington, where she edited the Post’s weekly Outlook section and led its national news coverage. Together with her husband, New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker, she wrote Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution.

John Kampfner is Adviser to Google on freedom of expression and culture. He is an author, broadcaster and commentator specializing in UK politics, international affairs, media and human rights issues. He is also Chair of the board of Turner Contemporary, one of the UK's highest profile art galleries. The opening of the gallery in Margate in April 2011 received plaudits around the world, and it is regarded as one of the UK's most important culture-driven regeneration projects. From Sept 2008 until March 2012 he was Chief Executive of Index on Censorship, one of the world's leading free expression organizations. In late 2009 Index launched a successful campaign to change UK libel laws. He is the author of a number of books. His most recent book, Freedom For Sale, was launched in the UK in September 2009 and in the US in March 2010, and was published in Italian, Spanish and Russian. His previous books include the critically acclaimed and best selling Blair's Wars, an account of the former prime minister's militaristic hubris.

Riz Khan is a recognized face worldwide following extensive careers with Al Jazeera English, BBC, and CNN. His 1,500-plus interviews at CNN included more world leaders than any other global interactive news show at the time, including the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Former US Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela. In 2005, he was hired by the Al Jazeera network to set-up its English-language channel “Al Jazeera English” in Washington, DC and host its flagship program, Riz Khan – a daily, live, topical show featuring the world’s top newsmakers. In 2005, Riz Khan authored his first book: Al-Waleed: Businessman, Billionaire, Prince, published by Harper Collins. This year, he e-published his first fiction novel titled We Interrupt Our Programming…, which is currently available on Amazon with proceeds supporting the construction of children’s libraries in underprivileged communities around the world.

Dunja Mijatovic was appointed OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media in early 2010, and is an expert in media law and regulation from Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1998, as one of the founders of the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, she helped create a legal, regulatory and policy framework for the media in a complex post-war society. She was also involved in setting up a self-regulatory Press Council and the first Free Media Helpline in South East Europe. In 2007 she was elected President of the European Platform of Regulatory Agencies – EPRA, the largest media regulators’ network in the world. She held this post until her appointment as the OSCE Representative. Ms Mijatović has written extensively on “new media” topics. She also has served as a consultant on projects relating to media regulation and new technologies in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Mr Wagner is a Researcher at European University Institute in Florence and coordinates the Dynamic Coalition on Freedom of Expression at the Internet Governance Forum. He has conducted research projects for Copenhagen Business School, Hivos, UNESCO and has published extensively on Internet Governance & Foreign Policy in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. He is currently preparing a briefing paper for the European Parliament on European Internet Foreign Policy after the Arab Spring.

Cynthia Wong is an attorney at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) and Director of CDT’s Project on Global Internet Freedom. Cynthia conducts much of CDT's work promoting global Internet freedom, with a focus on international free expression and business and human rights. Cynthia also serves as co-chair of the Policy & Learning Committee of the Global Network Initiative, a multistakeholder organization that advances corporate responsibility and human rights in the technology sector. Prior to joining CDT, Cynthia was the Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellow at Human Rights in China.

Judy Woodruff is a co-anchor and senior correspondent for the PBS Newshour and she has also contributed to a series of national reports on views of young Americans. The former host of CNN’s Inside Politics, Woodruff brings decades of broadcast experience and coverage of eight presidential elections to the table as one of America’s most accomplished political journalists.

Sana Saleem is an activist and freelance journalist working on minority rights and internet freedom. She is Executive Director at Bolo Bhi (Speak Up), an organization with focus on advocacy, policy and research with focus on Internet Freedom, Human Rights, Women's Rights, Women's Empowerment and against Gender Based Violence. She blogs at Global Voices, The Guardian & Dawn.com.

Chiranuch Premchaiporn, known as Jiew, is the Director and webmaster of Prachatai, an alternative Thai news website, and is a founding member of the digital rights group Thai Netizen Network.