Day One – December 9, 2021
See the schedule for Official Interventions, which will run on Day One in parallel via concurrent broadcast
Opening Remarks
8:00 am – 8:15 am
- Remarks by President Joe Biden
Leaders’ Plenary Session
8:15 am – 9:15 am (closed door)
- Hosted by President Joe Biden
Leaders’ Plenary Session
9:15 am – 10:15 am (closed door)
- Hosted by Ursula von der Leyen – President of the European Commission
Remarks – Bolstering Democratic Resilience
10:30 am – 10:45 am
- Remarks by Jacinda Ardern – Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Remarks by Mary Kay Henry – International President, Service Employees International Union
Panel Discussion – Bolstering Democratic Resilience: Building Back Better Together from COVID-19
10:45 am – 11:45 am
- Hosted by Antony Blinken – U.S. Secretary of State
- Moderated by Enrique Acevedo – Correspondent, CBS
- Speakers:
- Nana Akufo-Addo – President of Ghana
- Silvia Hernández Sánchez – President of the Legislative Assembly, Costa Rica
- Yvonne Aki-Sawyer – Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Violeta Bermudez – Former Prime Minister, Peru
- Douglas Rutzen – President, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Inter-Session Remarks
11:45 am – 12:00 pm
- Remarks by Juan Guaido – Interim President of Venezuela
Remarks – Preventing and Countering Corruption
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm
- Remarks by Maia Sandu – President of Moldova
- Remarks by Mo Ibrahim – Chairman, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Panel Discussion – Preventing and Countering Corruption
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
- Hosted by Janet Yellen – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- Moderated by Andrea Mitchell – Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC
- Speakers:
- Mokgweetsi Masisi – President of Botswana
- Zuzana Čaputová – President of Slovakia
- Paul Radu – Investigative Journalist, Co-founder, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
- Reuben Lifuka – Vice Chair, Transparency International, Zambia
- Diana Salazar – Attorney General, Ecuador
- Daria Kaleniuk – Executive Director, Anti-Corruption Action Centre, Ukraine
Remarks by Republican and Democratic Governors
1:15 pm – 1:25 pm
- Remarks by Phil Scott – Governor of Vermont
- Remarks by Janet Mills – Governor of Maine
Closing Remarks
1:25 pm – 1:35 pm
- Remarks by Vice President Kamala Harris
Day Two – December 10, 2021
Official Interventions will run on Day Two in parallel via concurrent broadcast
Opening Remarks
6:00 am – 6:05 am
- Remarks by António Guterres – Secretary-General of the United Nations
Remarks – Protecting Human Rights
6:05 am – 6:20 am
- Remarks by Magdalena Andersson – Prime Minister of Sweden
- Remarks by Dr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein – President and CEO, International Peace Institute
Panel Discussion – Expanding Civic Space: Empowering Human Rights Defenders and Independent Media Within and Across Borders
6:20 am – 7:30 am
- Hosted by Samantha Power – Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
- Moderated by Damon Wilson – President and CEO, National Endowment for Democracy
- Speakers:
- Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona – President of the Dominican Republic
- Lazarus Chakwera – President of Malawi
- Sherrilyn Ifill – President, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Irene Khan – UN Special Rapporteur on Promotion and Protection of Freedom of Opinion and Expression
- Swe Win – Editor-in-Chief, Myanmar Now
- Mohamed Zaree – Egypt Director, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
Inter-Session Remarks
7:30 am – 7:45 am
- Remarks by Nathan Law of Hong Kong
Remarks – Strengthening Democracy and Defending Against Authoritarianism
7:45 am – 8:00 am
- Remarks by Gitanas Nausėda – President of Lithuania
- Remarks by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya of Belarus
Panel Discussion – Protecting Democratic Institutions: Elections, the Rule of Law, and a Resilient Information Space
8:00 am – 9:00 am
- Hosted by Linda Thomas-Greenfield – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- Moderated by Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter – CEO, New America
- Speakers:
- Hakainde Hichilema – President of Zambia
- Kaja Kallas – Prime Minister of Estonia
- Attahiru Muhammadu Jega – former Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Nigeria
- Hina Jilani – Member of the Elders
- Jessikka Aro – Investigative Journalist, Finnish Broadcasting Service
- Nicholas Opiyo – Executive Director and Lead Attorney, Chapter Four Uganda
Remarks – Technology for Democracy
9:15 am – 9:30 am
- Remarks by Mette Frederiksen – Prime Minister of Denmark
- Remarks by Brad Smith – President and Vice Chair, Microsoft Corporation
Panel Discussion – Countering Digital Authoritarianism and Affirming Democratic Values
9:30 am – 10:30 am
- Hosted by Samantha Power – Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
- Moderated by Thomas Carothers – Harvey F. Fineberg Chair for Democracy Studies and Senior Vice President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Speakers:
- Egils Levits – President of Latvia
- Audrey Tang – Digital Minister, Taiwan
- Eileen Donahoe – Global Digital Policy Incubator, Stanford University Cyber Policy Center
- Samir Saran – President, Observer Research Foundation
- Nanjira Sambuli – Ford Global Fellow & Technology and International Affairs Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Manuel Muniz – Provost, IE University
Youth Town Hall
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
- Hosted by Linda Thomas-Greenfield – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Closing Remarks
1:30 pm – 1:45 pm
- Remarks by President Joe Biden