Dmytro Lubinets is Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman). He was appointed on July 1, 2022. 2019-2022 he was a non-party Member of Parliament for the Donetsk region and Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights, Deoccupation and Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories. 2014-2019 he was elected the MP and Secretary of the Regulation Committee.

Michael Ludwig is Mayor of Vienna. He is also Chairman of the local branch of the Austrian Social Democratic Party. He has served as a City Councibellllor in Vienna since 2007. He was previously its Second Vice-Mayor and Deputy Governor.

Lisette Ma Neza is a poet with a camera.  In 2017 she was the first Dutch-speaking woman to win the Belgian Poetry Slam Championships. Her poems are attempts at translating herself and others. She transmutes the lives and core feelings of the displaced, survivors of ‘huge’ violence, Africans in Europe and the diaspora. She translates the lives of women and the lives in Brussels. Her poems tend to turn into music, essays, films and theatre. She was recently chosen as Brussels’ first-ever city poet, a position she will hold for 2 years beginning 21 March.