2025 Pre-Jury
Aurélie Avice
Monaco; Program Officer at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
Jennifer Avila
Honduras; documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist
Elsa Marie DSilva
India; Founder and President of Red Dot Foundation Global and creator of Safecity, using crowdsourced data to combat sexual violence in public spaces
Anja Jahn Günther
Sweden; Diplomat, Head of Section at the Crisis Management Coordination Secretariat, Swedish Government Offices
Mark Hayes
United States; Partner at Breakwater Strategy
Maria Jammal
Israel/Palestine; creates solutions for the trauma experienced by refugees
Maarten Koets
The Netherlands; Consultant, NGO executive
Ellen Lust
United States; Professor in the Department of Government and Public Policy and Director, Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University
Kevin Noone
Sweden/U.S. Professor Emeritus of Chemical Meteorology at the Department of Environmental Science (ACES) at Stockholm University
Barbara Berger Opotowsky
United States; Former Executive Director, New York City Bar Association
Fajer Rabia Pasha
Pakistan; Executive Director of Pakistan Alliance for Girls Education, advocating for girls’ education rights
Kees Rietveld
The Netherlands; Advisor on Fragile State Policy, and on the Arabic and Persian-speaking world
Linda Vakunta
U.S.; Government Official/ Environmentalist, addressing economic disparities, health inequities, housing needs, and crisis intervention
Robert van der Ven
Sweden; Head of Academic Partnership Development AB Volvo, Volvo Group University
Nancy Yammout
Lebanon; social worker focusing on violence prevention and extensive extremism research to help traumatized refugees