Speakers 2026

Journalist and Managing Director of Solomon, an internationally recognized investigative outlet based in Greece known for its in-depth reporting on migration, accountability, and the environment. She has been nominated for the European Press Prize 2021 and won the IJ4EU Impact Award 2022 and the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize.

Her work has appeared in The New Humanitarian, Balkan Insight, Der Tagesspiegel, and openDemocracy, and she has taken part in numerous cross-border investigations. She has served as a juror for the Evens Journalism Prize 2021 and the IJ4EU Impact Award 2023, and is a 2024 alumna of Columbia University’s LEDE program.

Salvadoran poet and writer. His work is shaped by the migrant experience. At age nine, he traveled alone from El Salvador to the United States, an odyssey he recounts in his memoir Solito (Random House, 2024), a New York Times bestseller.

His debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), explores similar themes. He has received the 2024 Whiting Award, the 2022 LA Times–Christopher Isherwood Prize, and fellowships from Stanford University, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Harvard University, among others. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he collaborates with Salvavision.

Journalist and head of Desalambre, elDiario.es’s section specializing in human rights and migration. Based in Madrid, she covers Spanish migration policy and its consequences.

As a special correspondent, she has covered migration movements and refugees in Morocco, South Sudan, El Salvador, Ecuador, Mexico, Honduras, Cameroon, Italy, the Central Mediterranean, and Spain’s southern border, among other places, and her coverage of the Tarajal case stands out. She previously worked at elmundo.es and at Onda Cero Madrid and Pontevedra.

Journalist. He is the editorial director of infoLibre, the digital outlet he launched in 2013 with former colleagues from Público and other journalists, which also gave rise to the monthly print publication tintaLibre.

He began his career at the newspaper Informaciones, went on to work on TVE’s program Si yo fuera Presidente and at Antena 3 Radio, and took part in founding weekly publications such as Tribuna de Actualidad. He has been an editor at El Mundo and director of the magazines Interviú and Tiempo, and of the newspaper Público during its print era. A regular political analyst on radio and television debate programs, he has collaborated with La Sexta since its founding.

Senegalese journalist working at PressAfrik.com, specializing in coverage of migration, for which he has received two awards in recent years: one from the International Organization for Migration and another from the Association of Journalists Specialized in Migration and Security.

A journalism graduate, before joining PressAfrik he worked at the Alerte-Info news agency.

Journalist and anthropologist from Madrid, born in 1979. She is a staff writer at El Salto, where she covers migration, basic income, and social inequality, among other topics. Holding a diploma in Social and Political Anthropology from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), she has lived in Italy, Morocco, and Argentina, where she co-founded the organization Comunicación para la Igualdad.

She is the author of the novel Café Abismo (La Oveja Roja) and the essay La nada fértil (Continta Me Tienes), and also contributes to outlets such as CTXT and Tribuna Feminista.

Chilean journalist with a degree in Social Communication from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and nearly 25 years of experience in television. She is head of programming at NTV, the children’s and cultural channel of Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN), where she has dedicated her career to creating educational and entertainment content for children.

In 2023 she received the “50 Genias” recognition, and in 2024 she was awarded the Anatel Prize for her career and contribution to Chilean television.

Journalist born in Lanzarote. A graduate in Journalism from the Universidad de La Laguna with a master’s degree in Human Rights, Democracy and Globalization from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She has worked at Canarias Ahora since January 2019, specializing in migration and human rights.

She previously worked at La Opinión de Tenerife and carried out research and communication work on climate change in Senegal, The Gambia, and Cape Verde. In her work, she foregrounds a gender perspective when reporting on migration and seeks to break stereotypes by giving migrants a direct voice.

Minister of Youth and Childhood of the Government of Spain since November 2023. Born in Valencia in 1973, she was a Member of the European Parliament between 2019 and 2023, where she sat on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Committee on Petitions, and served as an alternate on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

She previously served as deputy mayor and councilor for Housing, Environmental Sustainability, Urban Mobility, and Public Safety in Rivas-Vaciamadrid (2007-2019). She is affiliated with Izquierda Unida.

Award-winning photojournalist and documentary filmmaker with extensive experience of investigating violations of the human rights of migrants. Over the past years, she documented on-the-ground conditions in forced migration situations, border crisis and cultures in transition.

Her works have been published in the BBC, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, Euronews, ARTE, ZDF, The New Humanitarian and others, and have been recognized at numerous festivals across Europe and beyond.

She has been working in the field with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in humanitarian contexts like Libya, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo and Bangladesh. In 2016, as part of MSF’s campaign to highlight the deadly routes refugees and migrants are taking to Europe, she spent 4 months on a search and rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea.

Her works include ´Libya: No Escape from Hell´ (ARTE), where she delved into the violent logic of migrants detention and disappearance, ´The Battle for the Nile´, a filmic journey along contested waters in Ethiopia and Egypt, and ´Death on the Border´ (BBC Africa Eye), a forensic visual investigation into the massacre at the border of Melilla (Spain) and Nador (Morocco).

Senior reporter at the Guardian covering international politics, inequality and human rights.

He has worked for The Guardian and The Observer for almost 25 years, covering many of the world’s major stories and conflict zones, most recently Sudan. His work has been recognized by multiple awards. His coverage of suicide in EU migrant deportation centers, among other topics, made him the News Reporter of the Year at the Society of Editors Press Awards (2017). He also won the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils.

Most recently he was the runner up of the 2025 European Press Prize and the 2025 Orwell Journalism Prize for his investigation ‘The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded and UK-backed forces in Tunisia’, along with his pieces on conflict in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

He´s the author of ‘No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made’, a book that provides a unique insight into a hidden Britain and is based on true events around youth radicalization.

Spanish journalist. Since 2016 she is the coordinator of Pikara Magazine, a Spanish digital magazine pioneer in the dissemination of feminist theory and practice. She is co-creator of Desplazados.org, a journalistic project that focuses on movement as a virtue. She is a specialist in international information and has a master’s degree in Globalization and Development. Co-author of the book ´Memorias Ahogadas´ (´Drowned Memories´), an immersion into the stories of those who, in various parts of Spain, had to leave their lives behind due to the construction of a dam.

Her works have been published in El País, eldiario.es, Público, El Confidencial, Tiempo, Cambio 16, La Marea, Otramérica, ABC and other media outlets. She has also co-authored the books ‘Climate emergency’ (2021) and ‘Drowned Memories’ (2024). Her journalistic career was recognized with the Joan Gomis Award.

A Senegalese journalist specializing in migration and justice. After a 13-year career, in 2023 she left her position at Senegal’s largest private group (Groupe Futurs Médias) to make a documentary on irregular migration, conducting research in Senegal, Spain and France.

Passionate about research and reporting, she has traveled throughout Senegal and other African and European countries, including the island of Lampedusa (Italy), one of the arrival points for migrant boats and a large marine cemetery.

In her documentary series ´In the Footsteps of the Migrant´, Ndiaye investigates the Canary Islands route, addressing the reasons that lead people to migrate and the dangers they face along the way (2024), the reality upon their arrival in the Canary Islands (2025), and finally their life in Europe (still in progress).

Researcher at the Delàs Center for Peace Studies and the Observatory for Human Rights and Business in the Mediterranean. She´s PhD in Public Policies and International Relations and political scientist specializing in the Mediterranean region. She has worked in development cooperation with social and human rights networks and movements in several countries in North Africa and the Middle East. Her focus is on the role of militarism in North Africa and the Middle East. She is an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Blanquerna – University Ramon Llull.

She´s the co-author of the report ´Mass Surveillance in the Maghreb and Mashreq: a critical analysis to protect civil society´ (2024), an analysis of how governments and companies of these regions use advanced digital surveillance technologies to control and repress civil society, with disproportionate impact on migrants and other groups.

Photographer, documentary filmmaker and journalist, co-founder of Yemayá Journal, a media outlet that narrates migration processes and human rights violations from an intersectional gender perspective.

She has written about migration from the women´s point of view, pushbacks on the border between Greece and North Macedonia, and other international issues. Her works have been published in El País, Diari ARA, Público, CTXT, El Salto, among other media outlets.

Journalist, co-founder and editor-in-chief of 5W magazine. She has addressed the dynamics of migrant trafficking in Libya and the legal implications of ´pushbacks´ in the European Union. She is the co-author of the documentary The Gourougou Trial (2022), which follows the trial against Spain in the European Court of Human Rights for pushbacks at its border with Morocco.

She has spent much of her career in Asia, where she worked for a decade in the Philippines, India, and Japan as a correspondent for EFE news agency. From the Tokyo office, which she headed from June 2011 until her return to Spain in 2013, she covered the aftermath of the tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear crisis. She also worked on social and environmental issues, including the impact of pollution in Asian megacities. She has been a correspondent in Rome and published her works in media outlets such as El Periódico de Catalunya.

Journalist specialized in religious and social affairs, editor-in-chief of Alfa y Omega, a Catholic weekly news magazine. She has also been publishing her works in Cadena COPE and Trece for the past decade. She was in charge of the Master’s Degree in Social Journalism at CEU – San Pablo University and has worked in countries such as Nicaragua, Peru, and Malawi, as well as on the border between Slovakia and Ukraine.

She has been a news editor at Popular TV, a contributor to the weekly magazine Alba, a member of the Media Delegation of the Archdiocese of Madrid, director of the Communication Department of the Altius Foundation-Francisco de Vitoria University, and head of communication and volunteering at the Hispanic-Central American Center, as well as editor-in-chief of the annual magazine of the Madrid Food Bank, before joining Alfa y Omega in February 2010.

She received the Manos Unidas Journalism Award in 2011, the Lolo Award for Young Journalists in 2015, and the Ángel Herrera Oria Journalism Award in 2021.

Syrian journalist and refugee in Spain. Co-founder of Baynana.es, the first Spanish and Arabic media outlet run by refugee journalists in Spain. He has been covering the war in Syria since he was 17 years old. He has experience in research and fact-checking.

He has collaborated with Spanish and international media outlets such as The Guardian, El País, eldiario.es, Al Jazeera, Maldita.es, The New Humanitarian, and 5W, specializing particularly on issues related to Syria and migration along the Mediterranean route.

Venezuelan investigative journalist based in Madrid. Her work focuses on migration and human rights and has been published in media outlets such as Público and El Confidencial. Since 2021, she has been collaborating with the porCausa Foundation, investigating the migration control industry and border externalization. In 2024, she was a guest contributor to the Pulitzer Center.

She has covered the stories of the Melilla massacre survivors and the criminalization of migration along the Mediterranean route, as well as the transfer of technology and equipment from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ international cooperation agency to African regimes to curb migration to Europe, among other topics.

Expert on poverty and development. Head of Research and co-founder at porCausa Foundation and Policy and Development Director at Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal). Editor of El País’ 3.500 Millones blog.

Previously, he was Director of Research and Senior Strategic Advisor at Intermón Oxfam and Oxfam International. He has published numerous analyses in the fields of global health, international migration, food security, trade and development aid.

A freelance journalist based in Madrid, she conducts research at the porCausa Foundation. Her work focuses on Africa, migration routes, the migration control industry, and human rights. She is also a guest contributor to the Pulitzer Center and was awarded the Africa Mundi Prize for Best Junior Journalist. She has previously worked at La Sexta Noticias and eldiario.es.