Alan Bowman is the Ambassador of Canada to Croatia and Kosovo. At Headquarters, he served as deputy director of the International Economic Relations and Summits Division from 2001 to 2004, he was the director of the Asia-Pacific Policy Division from 2004 to 2005, director of the Regional Strategy Division from 2005 to 2006 and director of the Foreign Policy Research Division from 2011 to 2014. He also served a two-year term as chair of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Committee on Trade and Investment in 2004 and 2005 and had an assignment with the Privy Council Office of Canada from 2010 to 2011. Abroad, he served at the Embassy of Canada to Thailand in Bangkok from 1997 to 2000 and at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in New York from 2006 to 2010. Most recently, from 2014 to 2019, he was the minister-counselor and deputy head of mission at the Mission of Canada to the European Union in Brussels, as well as the permanent observer of Canada to the Council of Europe. He holds a Bachelor Degree with honors in Economics, at McGill University, 1991; DEA (Applied Economics), Institut d’études politiques de Paris, 1993; MSc (Economics), Université de Montréal, 1994).

Ritchie Torres is a member of the U.S. House from the Democratic Party, representing New York's 15th Congressional District. He has served as the New York City Council member for the 15th district from 2013 to 2020. In 2013, at the age of 25, Torres became New York City’s youngest elected official and the first openly L.G.B.T.Q. person elected to office in the Bronx. Torres chaired the Committee on Public Housing, and was a deputy majority leader. As chair of the Oversight and Investigations Committee he focused on taxi medallion predatory loans, and the city's Third Party Transfer Program. In 2016, Torres was a delegate for the Bernie Sanders campaign. In July 2019, Torres announced his bid for New York's 15th congressional district. Torres is a member of the Committee on Financial Services and serves as the Vice Chair of the Committee on Homeland Security and Co-Chair of the Albanian Issues Caucus in the US Congress. He is also one of the nine co-chairs of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus in the 117th United States Congress.

Memli Krasniqi is the Chair of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and a Member of Parliament in the Republic of Kosovo. He served as Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development (2014-2017) and Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports (2011-2014). Upon the establishment of PDK’s Cabinet for Good Governance, Krasniqi was appointed to lead the Department of Youth, while in October 2006 he was elected Chair of the Democratic Youth of Kosovo – the youth organization of PDK that represents its members aged 16- 30. Mr. Krasniqi served as the Deputy Chair of PDK and Head of PDK Caucus as well as Deputy Speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo. He graduated with a BA in Political Science and Public Administration from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Prishtina and obtained a MSc degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Krasniqi is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Albanian studies of the Institute of History, Albania.

Debora Peci is the Project Manager in the Good Governance program in the organization Democracy Plus (D+). Her experience includes collaborations with public institutions, citizen groups and political parties to ensure fair representation and inclusiveness in policy-making processes in Kosovo. Debora is a member of various working groups and commissions that aim to facilitate and improve communications between institutions and citizens. Debora works towards increasing transparency and institutional accountability through increased activism and civic engagement in decision-making processes at both the local and central levels.

Blerta Hoti is the Deputy Mayor in the Municipality of Gothenburg in Sweden. Amongst other areas, her priority issues include culture and preschool education. Hoti has worked as a political advisor in the Ministry of Defence in the Swedish Government, as well as a political advisor in the European Parliament for the MEPs of the Social Democratic Party of Sweden. During 2011, Ms. Hoti worked as an intern at the Swedish Embassy, specifically with Swedish Program for International Development Cooperation (SIDA) in Prishtina. In 2012, she worked as an ombudsperson for the Social Democratic Party and in the party's youth caucus. In 2014, she co-founded the Social Democratic Club for Security Policy (SSÄK), in which she was also elected president/chair. Deputy Mayor Hoti graduated in global studies at the Göteburg University in Sweden. During her studies, she was a member of the faculty board of the School of Global Studies, while also being an activist for women's movement, working voluntarily for the women's rights organization, Terrafem. Ms. Hoti was born in Polac, Skënderaj, and she moved to Sweden when she was 6 years old.

Thierry Apothéloz is the State Councillor of the Canton of Geneva since 2018. Apothéloz is a member of the Socialist Party in Switzerland. Previously, he served as Administrative Councillor of Vernier and member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva. He has also worked as a youth educator in various organizations in Switzerland. For 20 years he has been involved in politics in various positions, such as the president of the Œuvre suisse d'entraide ouvrière (OSEO), vice-president of the Geneva Foundation for Sociocultural Animation (FASe), vice-president of the General Hospice and as president of the Association of Geneva Municipalities (ACG). Apothéloz completed his studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva in 2011.

Jehona Lushaku is the head of the Women's Forum of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). She currently works as an assistant professor at the University of Pristina (UP), Department of Political Science. She has held several managerial positions as Director for International Cooperation in UP; National Director of the EU Erasmus Plus program; Advisor for European Integration and she has managed European projects for education. Lushaku completed her bachelor's studies in Political Science and German Language at the University of Prishtina, and she completed her master's studies in European Integration and her doctorate with honors at the University of Hanover, Germany. She was a Konrad Adenauer Stiftung scholarship holder.

Diellza Kukaj is the chair of the Kosovo Women's Alliance (AGK) since 2022. She ran in the parliamentary elections of 2021 from the ranks of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK). Diellza Kukaj pursued her doctoral studies at the University of Graz. She served as a Political Advisor at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology from 2020 until 2021.

Filloreta Hoti is the chair of the local council in Rogovë. She is the first woman to hold this position. She has been part of non-governmental organizations since she was 14 years old. Currently, she studies at the high school "Remzi Ademaj" and is part of the Council of Kosovo Students where she represents the students of the municipality of Prizren.

Abdülhadi Krasniç has been serving as the Mayor of Mamusha since 2017. In 2019, he was appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Kosovo Democratic Turkish Party (KDTP). He also served as the Chief Advisor to the Minister of Public Administration of the Republic of Kosovo between 2014-2017. During 2012-2013 he was a member of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kosovo. He served as the Chairman of the Mamusha Municipality Executive Board in 2006-2009 and as the Deputy Mayor of Mamusha Municipality between 2009-2014. He completed his undergraduate education in Bursa in 2004, in the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, at Uludağ University. He completed his master's degree at the College “Biznesi'' Department of Management and Finance in 2019 with the thesis "Importance of Motivational Behavior in the Development of Human Resources".

Caleb Waugh leads the Policy Office at NGO Aktiv in North Mitrovica. He has been working here since 2018, where he conducts research and has authored numerous policy papers, analyses, and other similar documents. Topics covered by his work include language rights, the rights of non-majority communities, access to citizenship in Kosovo, gender-based violence, elections and problems faced by the Kosovo-Serb community. He completed a B.A in Political Science at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and an M.A in Eastern European Research and Studies at the University of Bologna in Italy. He has spent the past ten years working with civil society in Kosovo, where he has led projects on gender-based violence, election monitoring, the rights of non-majority communities and language rights.