Speakers at previous sessions have included:

Bertrand Ramcharan, former Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights

Todd Howland, Chief, Development, Economic and Social Issues Branch, Office of High Commisssioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

John Pace, Longest serving staff member of the UN Human Rights system, Coordinator of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights

Abdel Wahab Hani, Member of the UN Committee Against Torture

Shyami Puvimanasinghe, Human Rights Officer, OHCHR, Right to Development Section;

Milena Costas Trascasas, Member of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee

Penelope Hawkins, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, UNCTAD

Patrick Taran, President, Global Migration Policy Associates

Ambassador Yvette Stevens, former Permanent Representative to UN of Sierra Leone;

Ana-Maria Suarez Franco, FIAN, Food Rights International;

Maria Mercedes Rossi, Pope John XXIII Community Association;

Friar Dionysius Mintoff, Director of Malta Peace Laboratory

Mona Mona M’Bikay, Universal Periodic Review, UPR-Info

Ivan Vosloo, 1st Secretary, Permanent Mission of South  Africa to the UN

Edna Roland, Chair, Group of Eminent Experts on the implementation of the DDPA

Jane Hodges, former Director of ILO's Gender, Equality & Diversity Branch,

Eleanor Robb, assistant to HRC Special Rapporteur on racism

Raffaele Morgantini, Human Rights Programme Officer, Europe –Third World Centre – CETIM

Jan Lönn, ISMUN Secretary General, President of NGO Committee on Development

Keltoum Irbah, Professor of Sociology at Geneva