Mrs Salou KENNOU SEBEI, Tunisian national, holds a PhD in Agronomy. She is a community and trade-union activist, and president of the Tunisian Women Association for research and development (AFTURD). She was actively involved in the support of female political participation during the elections of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly in 2011, and during the legislative and presidential elections in 2014. At the community level, she contributed to educational programs and activities. She designed formation programs on gender, as well as textbooks on civic education, human rights, women rights, community organization and teamwork, targeting primarily women and girls in rural areas.

Mrs Carole COUPEZ is a national delegate for Solidarity and civic education at the NGO Solidarité Laïque (Secular Solidarity). She conceived pedagogic tools and programs targeting young audiences, teachers and childcare activity leader. She is in charge of advocacy for the access to quality education for all, and is the leader of the French coalition “Education”, part of the worldwide Campaign for Education present in more than 120 countries. Carole COUPEZ contributed to the works of Education Watch on the subjects of financing education and the quality of teachers. She also supervised the publication of l’Observatoire de la Coopération éducative française (Observatory of French educational cooperation) for the NGO Solidarité Laïque.

Fatou Jagne Senghor is the president of ARTICLE19 in West Africa. Expert in the law of media and communication, she joined ARTICLE19 in Februrary 2002 as a contributor to the Program Africa, and worked at the office based in Johannesburg (South Africa) until 2004. Currently based in Senegal, she directs ARTICLE19’s regional office for West Africa since 2010. Between 2002 and 2005, she coordinated ARTICLE19’s advocacy activities for the drafting of the Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in Africa by the African Commission on Human and People’s Right, as well as technical support for the creation of a Special rapporteur for Freedom of Expression in Africa.

Fatogoma DIAKITÉ is the former Administrator of Arts and Culture at the Ministry of Culture in Mali, position from which he retired since January 2013. He supervised many nationwide programs aiming at the promotion of literature in Mali, such as the Programme du Réseau des Centres de Lectures et d'Animation Culturelle (Reading and Cultural Animation Centers coordination program), led in partnership with the OIF from 2007 to 2015. He also coordinated the Franco-Malian project "Appui à la Filière du Livre au Mali"(Supporting to the book industry in Mali) between 2001 and 2007, and the project "Lecture publique du Mali" (Public reading of Mali) between 1982 and 2001. He is a professor at the Faculty of Letters, Arts, Languages and Human Sciences of the University of Bamako since 2004, and a member of the African Consultative Group for Libraries since July 2013. Fatogoma DIAKITÉ was awarded the French distinction of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1999, as well as the Malian Medal of National Merit in 2000.