Václav Moravec
Lead Coordinator
Václav Moravec works at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences of CU and at the Department of Production at FAMU in Prague. He specializes in audiovisual media transformation, journalistic ethics, automated and artificial intelligence journalism. He has authored and co-authored several books. Václav Moravec leads two discussion programmes in the Czech TV and has received several national awards for his journalistic work. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Artificial Intelligence Initiative PRG.AI, among others.
Nik Hynek
Head Of Research
Prof. Nik Hynek, PhD (Bradford), is a social scientist working across a range of disciplines, topics, and methods. He examines configurations in which security, spatiality, and power intersect, recombine and produce institutionalised composite systems and assemblages. His full professorship is in Political and Cultural Geography; habilitation in Theory of Politics; and PhD in Security Studies. He was a visiting research scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University in New York; The London School of Economics and Political Science; Australian National University; PRIO; Carleton University in Ottawa; and Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.
His articles can be found at Google Scholar. For books, check out his Amazon Author Page.
Karina Stasiuk-Krajewska
Researcher on the Impact of Disinformation on Society
Professor Karina Stasiuk-Krajewska is a media expert. She specializes in media theory and communication ethics. She is the author of more than 100 publications, mostly in Polish, including three books. Her research focuses on communication, mass media theory and axiology. She is also interested in the professionalization of various branches of public communication, especially journalism and public relations, and in the theory and methodology of discourse analysis in the approaches developed by Foucault, Laclau and Mouffe.
Aleksandra Wójtowicz
Digital policy expert, an analyst at NASK State Research Institute
Aleksandra is a digital policy expert. She is especially interested in disinformation. Currently, she works as an analyst at NASK State Research Institute. Beforehand, she worked for Valent Projects, Wise Europa, Polityka Insight, British Embassy and ECFR. She graduated from the College of Inter-Area Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Science at the University of Warsaw and pursued studies at George Mason University, Universita di Milano, and Charles University in Prague. Her work has been featured in Krytyka Polityczna, Magazyn Kontakt, Popmoderna and Forsal.
Jan Čech
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague
Jan Čech holds a PhD degree in Artificial Inteligence. As a computer vision researcher, his main interests lie in face-related interpretation problems, encompassing both analysis and synthesis. His publications have amassed more than 2000 citations. Previously, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at INRIA, France.
Mária Bieliková
Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT)
Mária Bieliková is the Director General at KInIT in Bratislava. She is a former member of the High-Level Expert Group on AI established by the European Commission and is still engaged in national and European discussions on trustworthy AI. Currently she chairs the Permanent Committee for Ethics and Regulation of AI established by the Slovak Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization. Mária Bieliková has led research focusing on human-computer interaction analysis, user modelling and personalization, data analysis and modelling of antisocial behavior on the web.
Dominika Hajdu
Policy Director of the Center for Democracy & Resilience at GLOBSEC
In research, Dominika focuses on information manipulation and its impact on democratic society, the intersection of technology and democracy, and strategic communication. She has led large-scale international projects focusing on research, awareness-raising and capacity-building for various target groups aiming to build societal and state resilience, and she regularly briefs and advises governments and international organisations on these matters. In her previous capacities, Hajdu gained experience working first in the advertising sector and later with EU policy-making, having trained at the EU’s Committee of the Regions and worked for a public affairs agency in Brussels. She holds an MA in EU Foreign Policy from the University of Leuven in Belgium.
Michaela Benedigová
Managing Director at Seesame
Michaela has more than 25 years of experience in the field has developed her extensive skill set in reputation management, public policy, corporate, and crisis communication. She trains and mentors corporate clients, NGOs, as well as public sector representatives. Michaela is an advisor to the Mayor of Bratislava, co-founder of the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (Kinit) and a member of several boards of directors.
Petr Gongala
Manager for Demagog.cz
Petr manages Demagog.cz, the only dedicated fact-checking project in the Czech Republic, and serves on the executive and strategy boards of CEDMO, a regional multidisciplinary hub devoted to combating misinformation. Petr has worked as a fact-checker, authored promise-tracking publications and set up voting apps. He is also a senior research analyst at IDC.
Pawel Terpilowski
Editor-in-chief and vice president of Polish fact-checking organization Demagog.
He holds a PhD in Political Science, specializing in foreign and security policy in Central-Eastern Europe, politics of Ukraine, Polish-Ukrainian relations, nationalism and radical movements as well as disinformation. Expert on Eastern Europe in Ambitna Polska Foundation. Member of the European Code of Practice on Disinformation Permanent Task-Force and the Governance Body of the European Fact-Checking Standards Network. In 2022, he was a member of the European Digital Media Observatory Task Force on Disinformation on the War in Ukraine.
Veronika Frankovská
Head of Demagog.sk
Veronika runs the Demagog.sk project, which verifies the truthfulness of politicians’ statements and verifies misinformation on social networks. In the past, she worked as a PR manager for the Institute for a Well-Governed Society and the Link for the Mayor project. She studied journalism at Masaryk University and international relations at Durham University.
Delphine Ramond
AFP’s Program manager for European Media Projects
Delphine works with a team of project managers on several initiatives in Europe for the fight against disinformation, cooperation between European media and innovation. She joined AFP in 2000 as an editor on the economics Desk, before joining the Video department as a video journalist in 2001. Europe-Africa video coordinator between 2008 and 2010, she then became deputy to the Video director in Paris. Her most recent posting was as Video technical editor-in-chief. In this role, she worked with technical engineers to build some of AFP’s video production tools and organised the training of video journalists in these new tools. She has become the Program Manager for European Media Projects in 2022.
Danae Tsabouraki
Programme Manager for media and disinformation
Danae holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law and a Master’s degree in Sociology of Law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Athens University of Economics and Business. She has been practicing law since 2012, mainly in the fields of civil and corporate law (intellectual property, data protection, contracts, competition law, etc.). Danae has been working at the ATC Innovation Lab since 2018 as a Project Manager in EU R&D-funded projects, focusing on the media sector and disinformation. She is currently involved among others in the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) as an operations consultant, as well as other H2020 and Horizon Europe projects with a focus on media and disinformation.
Eliot Higgings
Founder of Bellingcat; Currently the Creative Director of Investigations at Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV
Higgins work with open source investigation began during the conflict in Syria. He started blogging about open-source images being shared online. Early successes included identifying important information about the Syrian Air Force, Syrian opposition groups, and investigating the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government. In 2014, he launched Bellingcat, a website teaching readers to do their own open source investigations. Bellingcat has since expanded with its work helping to develop online open source investigation in many fields and being recognised as a leader in the development of online open source investigation. Most recently Higgins has been involved with the launch of Bellingcat Productions BV, which aims to build on the success of Bellingcat’s podcasts and documentaries about Bellingcat’s work