Siobhán Cummiskey is a Content Policy Director at Meta where her global team writes and interprets policies governing what content people can share on Meta’s platforms and ensures compliance with content-based regulation conforms to international standards. Prior to joining Meta in 2012, Siobhán practiced as a lawyer, including holding the position of Managing Solicitor at the Irish Traveller Movement Law Centre. She has worked in human rights law in the UK, India and Malawi and has lectured in the areas of social media regulation, human rights law and equality law. She is a qualified lawyer in Ireland and the State of New York and holds a LL.B. from the University of Dublin, Trinity College and a first class honours LL.M. in Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham. Siobhán is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Digital Policy at University College Dublin.

Mark Scott is Chief Technology Correspondent at POLITICO, writing about the global collision of technology and politics. Prior to joining POLITICO, Mark was the European Technology Correspondent for the New York Times where he covered the Continent’s response to Silicon Valley’s tech giants, the region’s push into the digital world, and the expansion of Europe’s own technology, media and telecommunications scene. He joined the New York Times as its European finance reporter during the recent global financial crisis. Previously, he had been a London correspondent for Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and along with his current technology beat, has also covered macroeconomics, the energy and renewables industry, and climate change. He is a graduate of the University of St Andrews (International Relations & Spanish) and received an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London.

Corneliu Bjola (PhD, University of Toronto) is an Associate Professor of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford and the Head of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California and a Professorial Lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. His research focuses on the impact of digital technology on the conduct of diplomacy, with a special interest in public diplomacy, international negotiations, and methods for countering digital propaganda.

Bence Kertesz is a Legal and Policy Officer of the European Commission in Brussels, working at the Online Platforms Directorate of DG CONNECT. His Directorate is responsible for enforcing the recently adopted Digital Services Act (DSA), and he is coordinating work related to content moderation, trusted flaggers and transparency. Before drafting and negotiating the EU’s new platform regulation, he was working on the DSM Copyright Directive. Before joining the European Commission in 2015, he worked at the BBC in London and at international law firms. He studied law and film production in Hungary.

Sander van der Linden , is Professor of Social Psychology in Society and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. His research looks at how people process (mis)information, how it spreads in online networks, and what behavioral interventions we can design to counter it at-scale. He serves on the World Health Organization's (WHO) infodemic management working group and has won numerous awards for his research on human judgment, communication, and decision-making, including the Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the Sage Early Career Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), the Frank Prize in Public Interest Research from the University of Florida, and the Sir James Cameron Medal for the Public Understanding of Risk from the Royal College of Physicians.

Anneli Kimber Lindwall is a strategic communication professional with twenty-two years of experience in the public and international development sectors in the European Union, United Kingdom and in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood. She has worked in Tallinn, London, Stockholm, Yerevan, Tbilisi, Chisinau, Kyiv and in Brussels for the European External Action Service. Professor Kimber is an author of two studies focusing on debunking disinformation and on improving EU communication in the Eastern Partnership countries. Currently she holds the position of campaigns manager at EU NEIGHBOURS EAST, the EU’s largest regional communication project in the Eastern Neighbourhood.

Claudia  Negri-Ribalta is a Ph.D. in computer science researcher and activist with formal education in computer science and political science. She holds a Ph.D. from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in requirements engineering, titled "STAP - Socio-Technical Data Protection framework for requirements with divergent mental models" under the supervision of Prof. Salinesi. Claudia is also the president of the Latin American NGO OptIA. She is a research associate at the IRiSC at the SnT, University of Luxembourg. Her research areas are data protection/privacy (broadly), computer science, requirement engineering, security (broadly), and regulatory bodies.

Ben O'Loughlin is Professor of International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is Director of the New Political Communication Unit, which was launched in 2007. Before joining Royal Holloway in September 2006 he was a researcher on the ESRC New Security Challenges Programme. He completed a DPhil in Politics at New College, Oxford in October 2005 under the supervision of the political theorist Elizabeth Frazer and journalist Godfrey Hodgson.Ben's expertise is in the field of international political communication. He was Specialist Adviser to the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Soft Power and UK Influence, producing the report Power and Persuasion in the Modern World(2014). The report drew extensively on O'Loughlin's work on strategic narrative and has impacted how policymakers communicate Britain's role in the world.

Camila Mont’Alverne is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, at the University of Oxford. Over the last three years, she worked at the Trust in News Project, investigating drivers and impacts of media trust in Brazil, India, the UK, and the US. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, where she was a researcher at the Research Group on Media, Politics, and Technology (PONTE/UFPR). Her main research interests are in the area of Political Communication, focusing on Political Journalism, Media & Elections, and Internet & Politics.

Bruce Mutsvairo is a Professor is the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His research focuses on the development of journalism and political communication in non-Western contexts. He has written extensively on several topics related to these fields including the decolonization and de-Westernization of political communication.

Aayushi Liana Shah is a Learning Consultant, Teacher & Trainer at Leiden University’s Learning and Innovation Centre (LLInC). She previously worked at Leiden University as a Junior Lecturer in Security Studies, and as Project Officer at the Embassy of India in The Hague. She holds an M.Sc. in International Relations and Diplomacy. Aayushi has expertise in innovative and inclusive education and enjoys working on themes of serious game development and DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion). She is presently involved in leading workshops on inclusive approaches in learning experience design, teaching and communication, and is also teaching a Masters course on tackling societal inequalities at the Honours Academy of Leiden University.

Theresa Seipp (LL.M.) is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Information Law (IViR), where she is an integral part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab research team. Her primary focus lies in effectively regulating the opinion and political power wielded by digital platforms. To accomplish this, Theresa employs a predominantly normative legal research approach, examining the implications of increasing power concentrations within the digital media ecosystem for media pluralism and democracy. Her research interests encompass European media law and policy, fundamental rights (particularly media freedom and pluralism), and the regulation of digital platforms.

Joachim Koops (BA, LPC Oxon, MSc Turku, PhD Kiel) is a Board Member of the Global Governance Institute and a Senior Expert in the Peace and Security and Global Education sections. He is also Professor of Security Studies and Scientific Director of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) at Leiden University. Joachim’s research focuses on Global Security Governance, European foreign policy and diplomacy and inter-organizational relations in peace and security (including peacekeeping, peacebuilding, crisis management and the responsibility to protect) with particular emphasis on the role of the European Union, NATO and United Nations.

Sophie Vériter is a Non-Resident Fellow in the Peace and Security section. She is also a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) of Leiden University. She specializes in counter-disinformation policies. Her interests cover democracy, technology, and global governance. Sophie prioritises inter-disciplinary approaches, building on her background in law, political science, international relations, and security studies. She is fascinated by communications and passionate about empowering society. On her blog, she writes op-eds on current affairs, mental health, and academia. She holds a Master’s degree in Politics from the University of Oxford and has received prestigious scholarships including from the Europaeum and UACES.