Category: Speaker

Sarah Clarke, 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… Continue reading ​​​​​​Sarah Clarke

​​Lutz Kinkel, 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.… Continue reading ​​​​​​Lutz Kinkel

Walter Strobl, Press Club Concordian (Austria) 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 Vienna,… Continue reading ​​​​​​Walter Strobl

Marie Hélène Boulanger, Head of Unit, Union Citizenship Rights and Free Movement, DG Justice, European Commission

Karmen Turk, 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,… Continue reading ​​​​Karmen Turk

​​Gordana Miladinovic, Organized Crime & 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

Gillian Phillips, 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… Continue reading Gillian Phillips

Dirk Voorhoof, 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… Continue reading Dirk Voorhoof

Andrew Rettman, EU Observer twitter: @apsyrtus