Seyran Ates

Seyran Ates

Seyran Ateş was born in Istanbul in 1963 to a Turkish mother and a Kurdish father and is living in Berlin since 1969. She studied law at the Free University of Berlin and worked as a lawyer with interruptions from 1997 to July 2024. From a young age, she was committed...
Branko Brkic

Branko Brkic

Branko Brkic is founder of PROJECT KONTINUUM, a global initiative to advance journalism, media innovation, and sustainability. He is former Editor-in-Chief of Daily Maverick, South Africa’s leading online daily which he co-founded in 2009. In his 40-year career,...
Nicholas Williams

Nicholas Williams

Nik Williams is the policy and campaigns officer at Index on Censorship and is a free expression advocate based in Glasgow. He focuses on SLAPPs, online surveillance, censorship and dissent in the UK and countries such as India, Iran, and Belarus. At the European...
Hiqmat Sungdeme Saani

Hiqmat Sungdeme Saani

Hiqmat Sungdeme Saani is a gender, communications, and digital transformation professional from Ghana with a passion for using technology to advance freedom of expression, digital rights, and gender equality. Growing up in a region where access to education and free...
Paolo Cesarini

Paolo Cesarini

Paolo Cesarini is Chair of the Executive Board of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and Programme Director for the European Media and Information Fund (EMIF) at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). He also collaborates as Senior Advisor...