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