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Head of Europe and Central Asia Team, ARTICLE 19 Sarah Clarke joined ARTICLE 19 in January 2019 as Head of the Europe and Central Asia team, defending the human rights to freedom of expression and information in the region. Between 2012 and 2018, she led PEN International’s policy and advocacy work, overseeing its engagement with the… Continue reading ​​​​​​Sarah Clarke

​​Managing Director European Centre for Press and Media Freedom Lutz represents and manages the ECPMF. He worked in German press for more than 20 years, giving special focus to the areas of politics and media. He was an editor at Spiegel-Online and tagesschau.de and more recently head of the stern-online office in Berlin. He did… Continue reading ​​​​​​Lutz Kinkel

Head of Legal Service Journalism, Presseclub Concordia Walter Strobl is running the “Rechtsdienst Journalismus“ [Legal Service Journalism], a department of Presseclub Concordia in Vienna, Austria, since October 2021. He combines comprehensive expertise in copyright and media law with many years of experience in media management and teaching. After gaining his law degree at the University of… Continue reading ​​​​​​Walter Strobl

Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers Deputy Director – Equality and Union citizenship, European Commission Marie-Hélène Boulanger began her career in the field of data protection working with Professor Poullet for six years at the University of Namur. She then spent five years at the Belgian Data Protection Authority, two of which years as its Secretary… Continue reading ​​​​​​Marie Hélène Boulanger

Chair of the Council of Europe Expert Committee on Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (MSI-SLP), Lecturer, University of Tartu and Partner at the Law Firm TRINITI, Estonia Karmen Turk (mag iur) is a litigation attorney and partner at pan-baltic Triniti Law Firm with an expertise in artificial intelligence regulations, human rights, intellectual property, and media… Continue reading ​​​​Karmen Turk

Member Center Coordinator, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Based in Sarajevo, Gordana Miladinovic joined OCCRP in 2018 and is the coordinator for the growing OCCRP member center network. She supports the centers on building sustainable organizational operations and securing funding opportunities. She works to understand each member center and its needs and with teams… Continue reading ​​Gordana Miladinovic

Director of Editorial Legal Services, the Guardian Gillian Phillips is the Director of Editorial Legal Services for Guardian News & Media Limited (publishers of the Guardian and Observer newspapers and theguardian.com). She qualified as a solicitor in 1984 and joined the BBC as an in-house lawyer in 1987, later working for News Group Newspapers and… Continue reading Gillian Phillips

Prof. em. Human Rights Centre Ghent University, Legal Human Academy and member of the CoE MSI-SLP committee on Anti-SLAPP Prof. dr. em. Dirk Voorhoof lectured European Media and Information Law at Ghent University and Copenhagen University, as well as at the University of Oxford, MLAP (Global Media Law Advocates Programme). He has been a guest… Continue reading Dirk Voorhoof

Foreign affairs journalist, EU Observer Andrew Rettman is a foreign affairs journalist with EUobserver, a Brussels-based news agency. He focuses on Russia and the Middle East but also does investigative reports on espionage and money-laundering.He has been the target of three SLAPPs in the past three years, including for stories on Daphné Caruana Galizia and… Continue reading ​​Andrew Rettman