Timothy Snyder

Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is the author of a dozen books, including the bestsellers On Tyranny, Our Malady, The Road to Unfreedom, Black Earth, and Bloodlands. His work has been translated into forty languages and received a number of prizes.

Wayne Jordash is an acclaimed British barrister, and has practiced for 20 years in the international human rights and humanitarian law. His clients include governments, multilateral institutions, NGOs, corporations, and individuals. His advisory work has included providing specialist advice to Human Rights Watch, the Ugandan, the International Commission of Jurists, among other NGOs. He is engaged as a key expert in the Council of Europe’s business and human rights.

Héctor Abad Faciolince is a Colombian writer, journalist, and publisher. Abad is considered one of the major writers of Colombia and Latin America. The novel about memory, which brought its author international recognition, is called Oblivion: A Memoir (2005) and tells the story of his family in the context of tragic events that happened in Colombia in the 70s and 80s.

Former National Security Advisor and High Commissioner of Colombia, leader of #AguantaUcrania Campaign

The chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna. He is a Financial Times contributing editor and author of “Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe” (Allen Lane, 2020); “The Light that Failed” (Allen Lane, 2019), co-authored with Stephen Holmes, won the 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize; and “After Europe” (UPenn Press, 2017).
Ivan is the winner of the Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing 2020.

Swedish author and journalist living in Vienna, Austria. Founder of Eurozine and currently the Programme Director of Debates on Europe, a cooperation between the S. Fischer Stiftung and the German Academy for Language and Literature.

Poet, a playwright, and a member of the Lithuanian Writers’ Union since 1998. She writes poetry, plays, staging, and libretti for children and adults. Her plays are staged in various Lithuanian theaters. She has published five books of poetry and one book of plays. She currently works as a dramatist at the National Kaunas Drama Theatre. In 2016 she founded the Publishing House Žalias kalnas, which publishes children’s books.

Jonathan Littell was born in 1967. His first literary novel, Les Bienveillantes, published in France in 2006, won the Prix Goncourt; it has been translated into nearly 40 languages, including Ukrainian. His first feature documentary film, Wrong Elements, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2016. He has also covered a number of conflicts for print media, including most recently the war in Ukraine (for Le Monde).

Peter Kraus vom Cleff (*1967) has been Managing Director of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association (Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels) since 2022. He holds a degree in economics and was active in various publishing houses of the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group for more than 20 years, most recently managing Rowohlt Verlag as Commercial Director since 2008. From 2020 to 2022, he was President of the Federation of European Publishers (FEP).

Conflict Reporter with 19 years experience. Author of 3 books: Slaves are not allowed in Heaven (2023), M@ils about Afghanistan (2020), Mahmud – My Syrian interpreter (2018).
Born in 1984, Georgia, Tbilisi. Currently he works for “TV Formula”, “Droeba.” Visiting lecturer at Grigol Robakidze University.
Slaves are not allowed in Heaven is Rati’s newest book which is about russia’s full scale invasion in Ukraine. “This book is about Ukraine and Ukrainians,” Rati Mujiri mentions.