Moderator: Edward P. Joseph, Executive Director, Institute of Current World Affairs

Moderator: Ambassador Andras Simonyi, Managing Director, Center for Transatlantic Relations at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Keynote Speaker: Randy W. Berry, Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons

Opening Remarks: Ambassador Lars Gert Lose of Denmark

Panel 1 – Africa
Moderator – Fabrice Houdart, Human Rights Officer at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Robbie Corey-Boulet, ICWA Fellow researching LGBT issues in West Africa
Lewis Kunze, Activist with Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ)
Micheal Ighodaro, Nigerian HIV prevention advocate, White House Champion of Change
Felicity Thompson, Human Rights Watch

Panel 2 – Europe/Russia
Moderator – Fabrice Houdart, Human Rights Officer at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Dmitry Chizhevsky, Russian survivor of anti-LGBT violence in St. Petersburg
Misha Friedman, Documentary photographer and Pulitzer Center grantee
Mario Skunca, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Croatia to the United States

Panel 3 – Asia
Moderator – Macarena Saez, Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University
Yuvraj Joshi, Yale Law School Gruber Fellow in Global Justice at Human Rights Watch
Tushar Malik, LGBTI rights activist from India
Hou Hoping, Founder & V-P of LesGo, nonprofit devoted to LGBTI rights in China

Panel 4 – Americas
Moderator – Macarena Saez, Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University
Maurice Tomlinson, Jamaican AIDS activist; subject of film, ‘The Abominable Crime’
Adrian Gonzalez, Human Rights Campaign Global Fellow
Mati Gonzalez Gil, Transgender advocacy gains in Colombia
Mariel Ortega, Fellow, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights