Gábor Kerpel-Fronius is Deputy Mayor of Budapest. He is responsible for participatory budgeting, participation-related programmes and smart city development. He is a member of the Hungarian progressive-liberal party Momentum.

Morten Kjaerum was Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) in Sweden and adjunct professor at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. He was also FRA’s Director. Previously, he was Executive Director at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. He has also published extensively on human rights. 

Lena Knilli is an artist, adult literacy trainer and climate activist at Artists for Future Austria. Her artistic works are exhibited internationally.