Future of Tyranny
Woman Against Fascism

 Ideas Festival  / Sun 1st Dec / 1-2 pm

ABOUT THE HOSTS

Helena Malikova is an EU civil servant where she is focused on the market power of companies, competition policy across the broad spectrum of European antitrust enforcement questions relevant to regulating AI and on competition policy. She is also Fellow at the Carr Centre for Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School and a fellow at the Hertie School in Berlin

Shada Islam is an award-winning, influential Brussels-based commentator on EU affairs. She is a leading voice on geopolitics and on building an anti-racist and authentically feminist “Union of Equality”. In 2023 and 2024, she was on the ZN Consulting list of 50 top influencers. Shada won the European Movement International’s 2023 European of the Year in Media award.

Brenda Odimba is a Belgian engineer, a decolonial and environmental activist. She has been involved in the George Floyd protests in Belgium in 2020 and in an unofficial Black Lives Matter movement. In 2021 she was one of thousands who took the Belgian public authorities to court over their failing to take action to meet the international climate targets. Her focus is grassroots activism in the Democratic Republic of Congo.