Jochen Spangenberg
Member of the Advisory Board, Chair
Jochen Spangenberg is Deputy Head of Research and Cooperation Projects at Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle. He also lectures at the Free University Berlin in Media & Communication Sciences and is an advisor as well as instructor for Lie Detectors, an NGO that brings media literacy to young people and into classrooms. Since 2020 he has been a member of the Advisory Board of EDMO (European Digital Media Observatory), and before that served on the board of SOMA (European Disinformation Observatory).
Victor Breiner
Member of the Advisory Board
Victor Breiner worked in the past as war correspondent in Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, for which he was awarded at the Czech and Slovak Press Photo several times. Following his interest in information operations and irregular warfare, he began to pursue security studies and founded Infosecurity.sk. Currently Victor Breiner works as Advisor on Hybrid threats to the Slovak Minister of Defense, authoring policy documents and developing practical counter-disinformation solutions.
Iwona Hofman
Member of the Advisory Board
Iwona Hofman is a Professor in the humanities, focused mainly on social communication and media science. She held several top positions in academia, leading the Faculty of Political Science at Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Poland, its Institute of Social Communication and Media Sciences or the Department of Journalism and the Research Laboratory of the Literary Institute in Paris. Iwona Hofman is the President of the Polish Society of Social Communication and chairs the Committee of Sciences on Social Communication and Media of the Polish Academy of Sciences, among other functions.
Roman Imielski
Member of the Advisory Board
Roman Imielski is the Deputy Editor in Chief and Political Editor of Gazeta Wyborcza, the leading Polish quality newspaper. He heads its investigative team and is responsible for the most important investigative articles since 2016. He also works as a commentator of Polish and international political affairs in TV and radio. As a former Foreign News Editor, he specialized in internal affairs, European Union issues, transatlantic relations and Russia. Roman Imielski is a historian and co-author of the book „The most important Kremlin’s game” about football World Cup in 2018 in Russia.
Sylvie Kauffmann
Member of the Advisory Board
Sylvie Kauffmann is the Editorial Director and a former Editor-in-chief of the French daily Le Monde and is a member of its Ethics Committee. She has extensive experience as foreign correspondent in London, Moscow, in the USA and in South-East Asia. Sylvie Kauffmann was a member of Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Advisory Board and now she is a board member of the Centre de Formation des Journalistes in Paris and the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Tomáš Kriššák
Member of the Advisory Board
Tomáš Kriššák is an information security expert, working on combating misinformation and polarisation in Slovakia. He founded Confident Slovakia and Checkbot projects focused on tackling negative sentiments, toxic nationalism and on enhancing critical thinking. Tomáš was involved in several media literacy programs aimed at reducing the impact of misinformation and other societal manipulation and currently works in Gerulata technologies, a Slovak company focusing on information security and monitoring tools for digital platforms.
Ľuboš Kukliš
Member of the Advisory Board
Ľuboš Kukliš is Chief Executive at the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of Slovakia and Chair of the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities (EPRA). Previously, he was Chair of European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) in 2018 and 2019 and currently leads ERGA’s work on disinformation. Ľuboš Kukliš is a lawyer by training, holds PhD in Administrative law and has authored several books.
Michal Pěchouček
Member of the Advisory Board
Michal Pěchouček is a Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) where he leads the Department of Computer Science and the AI Center. As Chief Technology Officer in the cybersecurity company Avast, he is also in charge of its research in AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity. Mr. Pěchouček had previously co-founded several technology start-ups, some of them being acquired by tech giants as CISCO.
Jacek Żakowski
Member of the Advisory Board
Jacek Żakowski co-founded in the 1980s Gazeta Wyborcza and served as the first Chairman of the Polish Information Agency. He also co-founded Concilium Civitas, a discussion group of the most outstanding Polish social science scientists working outside Poland at the world’s best universities, such as Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and Oxford. Currently, he is a columnist for the weekly Polityka and the daily Gazeta Wyborcza. He also runs Friday’s “Morning” show in Tok FM radio station and chairs the department of journalism at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw.
Michal Miovský
Member of the Advisory Board
Michal Miovský is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. A graduate of a single-major academic programme in psychology at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, Brno, and a postgraduate programme at the Faculty of Arts of Palacky University, Olomouc, he qualified as a senior lecturer (“docent”) in clinical psychology at Palacky University in 2005 and was appointed as professor in the same field at Charles University in 2012. In 2005 he was appointed as the head of the Centre for Addictology at the Department of Psychiatry of the 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague. In January 2012 he became the head of the Department of Addictology, an independent institution created by the merger of the Centre for Addictology and the Addiction Treatment Unit of the General University Hospital (“U Apolináře”). Since 2008 he has held the office of the Vice-dean for non-medical study programmes at the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague.