Category: Panelist

Member of the House of Representatives, Malta twitter: @naomicachia

Umweltinstitut Veronika Feicht works as Agricultural Policy Campaigner at the Munich Environmental Institute (Umweltinstitut München), a German NGO that was targeted by a SLAPP as a result of its awareness-raising campaign on the high use of pesticides in the region of South Tyrol. Feicht represents the Umweltinstitut within the Coalition against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE)… Continue reading ​​Veronika Feicht

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza Piotr Stasiński obtained his doctorate degree in humanities at the Institute for Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The extended version of his doctoral thesis was published 1982 as a book entitled Poetics and Pragmatics of the Feuilleton.In 1980, Stasiński co-organized ‘Solidarity’ trade union in the Polish Academy of… Continue reading ​​Piotr Stasiński

Camille Petit, Communications and Project Officer, European Federation of Journalists Camille Petit works as a Communications and Project officer at the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) in Brussels. She studied journalism in France and holds a master’s degree in European studies from La Sorbonne Nouvelle. Prior to joining the EFJ in 2016, she worked as… Continue reading ​​Camille Petit

​​Julia Nebel, Director, Luhze Newspaper Since 2021, Julia Nebel has been the director of Luhze e.V., the association which publishes the student newspaper Luhze – Leipzigs unabhängige Hochschulzeitung. She began working for Luhze in 2018, while studying law at the University of Leipzig, where she is currently do my doctoral studies.

Karl Van den Broeck, Editor in Chief, Apache Karl van den Broeck is a Belgian journalist. He worked for the Belgian national newspaper De Morgen and was chief editor of the news magazine Knack. Since 2014 he is chief editor of Apache, a platform for investigative journalism. Apache was awarded the Arch Prize for Free… Continue reading ​​​​Karl Van den Broeck

Lukas Straumann, Director, Bruno Manser Fonds (Switzerland) Lukas Straumann studied history, philosophy and botany at the Universities of Basel, Neuchâtel and Salamanca. He holds a PhD in history from Zurich University and recently completed a Bachelor of Law at UniDistance Suisse.After graduating, Straumann was a research fellow for the Independent Committee of Experts Switzerland Second… Continue reading ​​​​Lukas Straumann

Pia Lindholm, Deputy Head of Unit for Civil Justice in Directorate-General Justice and Consumers of the European Commission Pia Lindholm works as a Deputy Head of Unit for Civil Justice in Directorate-General Justice and Consumers of the European Commission. She studied law in Helsinki and London and economics in Brussels and trained as a judge… Continue reading ​​​​​​Pia Lindholm

Stefan Schennach, Rapporteur on “Countering SLAPPs: An Imperative for the Democratic Society,” Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media – Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Austria, SOC) twitter: @stefanschennach

Tiemo Wölken, Member of the European Parliament (SPD-S&D), JURI Rapporteur on the Anti-SLAPPs Directive Tiemo Wölken is a politician from northern Germany. He has been active in local politics since 2003 in his home region. He holds a LL.M. in International Law from the University of Hull, England. Since 2016, he has been a lawyer,… Continue reading Tiemo Wölken