Yamina Saheb – IPCC author, campaigner against the Energy Charter Treaty, and advocate of decolonising global governance
Yamina Saheb is a lecturer and researcher at Sciences Po (Paris), a lead author of the IPCC report on climate change mitigation and a Senior fellow at OpenExp. Prior to this position, Yamina was a Senior Fellow Researcher at the University of Münster and previously a Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne. In 2018, Yamina was the head of energy efficiency unit at the Energy Charter Secretariat. Before that, she was a Policy and Scientific Officer at the Renewables and Energy Efficiency Unit at the Institute of Energy and Transport of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC). She also worked as senior buildings energy efficiency policy analyst at the IEA. Yamina holds a Ph.D in Energy Engineering, Master’s degrees on Landscape Architecture and Development Economics and an Engineering degree in Building technologies.
Melanie Vogel – Co-Chair, European Green Party
Mélanie Vogel is Co-Chair of the European Green Party from June 2022. She is one of the youngest senators in France, representing French abroad, where she sits on the committee for social affairs. Prior to her Senate mandate, she has been working as an advisor for the Green Group in the European Parliament in the committee on constitutional affairs. She is an expert in European democracy, feminism and LGBTI+ rights.
Joanna Talewicz – President of the Stronę Dialogu Foundation
Joanna Talewicz, Ph.D – Co- founder and president of the Foundation Towards Dialogue [Fundacja w Stronę Dialogu]. Researcher, educator, author, activist. For twenty years she has been working for the benefit of the Roma community and minority rights. Doctor of Cultural Anthropology. She worked as an assistant professor in Jagiellonian University and University of Warsaw. A graduate of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. Member of the Polish delegation in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The Batory Foundation Olga Kersten-Matwin Award winner, for constant integration, educational, psychological, legal and activation assistance for refugees of Roma origin. Talewicz was a fellow of Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability Program- Columbia University, Leadership Academy for Poland, grantee of the Fulbright scholarship, Tom Lantos Institute, European Commission’s program: Marie Curie – Conferences and Training Courses on Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-National Approaches to Romani Studies- Central European University and International Leadership Visitor Program of the U.S. State Department Program. In her work she is focused on Romani communities in Europe. However, her main topic relates to the Roma Holocaust and Romani refugees.
Hanna Machińska-Former Commissioner for Human Rights
Hanna Machińska is a lawyer and social activist with an extremely rich heritage in the implementation of European legal standards into Polish law, including in the field of human rights protection and anti-discrimination law. She has also always been involved in the fight against discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance. She is the author of many publications in the field of human rights protection, including “Axiology in the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights”, “Protection of Fundamental Rights in the European Union”, “The Idea of Europe” (ed.), “Poland and the Council of Europe”, “Disabled people in the labour market”. In 1973 she graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. From 1973 she worked at this faculty. She obtained her doctoral degree in 1978. Currently she works at the University of Warsaw as a docent. From. During Poland’s accession to the European Union (2002-2004), she worked as an expert in the Office of the Committee for European Integration (UKIE). She was also a member of the Council for European Education under the Minister of Education (2003), an expert in the Advisory Committee on European Law under the Minister of Justice (2008-2010), a member of the Advisory Legal Committee under the Minister of Foreign Affairs (2011-2016). From 2017 to 2022 she was Deputy Ombudsman. In 2022, she received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law at the University of Zurich. In June 2023, she was named Gazeta Wyborcza’s Man of the Year.