Speakers

She is an activist for the right of women, children and vulnerable groups. She works with the Forum for Women in Democracy. She is also the Chairperson and founding member of the East African Greens Federation Women's network.

Silvia Vazquez is a lawyer, writer and documentalist. She is founder and Chairwoman of the Green Party in Argentina.

Mr. Zahid Iqbal started his politics as student and youth leader; he began his political career from a central right party but later joined the progressive movement and Green Party in 2008.

French teacher in a secondary school, and new inhabitant in Enghien, small town of 13,500 citizens, Bénédicte Linard participates in her first campaign for ECOLO as first deputy at the regional elections in Wallonia in 2009.

Sybren Kooistra (1987) leads the online- and grassroots campaign for GroenLinks, the Dutch greens. For the online campaign he focussed on creating video’s that could go viral, and the credo ‘always ask’ which has led to an influx of new volunteers and party members.

Ulrike Lunacek is currently Vice President of the European Parliament; she has been an MEP (Greens/EFA) since 2009, EP-Rapporteur for Kosovo, Co-President of the LGBTI Intergroup of the EP; she is also a Member of the Committees on Foreign Affairs and on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

Monika Baunach is the Constituency Coordinator and Researcher to Keith Taylor, Green MEP for the South East of England.