FJUM - Key Persons


Alberto Alemanno

Job Titles:
  • Jean Monnet Professor
  • Lawyer, Professor, Book Author, Advocate
Alberto Alemanno is Jean Monnet Professor in European Union Law and one of the leading voices on the democratization of the European Union. His research centres on how the law may be used to improve people's lives, through the adoption of power-shifting reforms countering social, economic, and political inequalities within European societies and beyond. He has written extensively on risk regulation, public health, consumer rights, food policy as democratic innovation, participatory and deliberative democracy. Alberto is also permanent visiting professor at the University of Tokyo School of Public Policy, the College of Europe, in Bruges and a scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law as well as fellow at The Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation at Rutgers University. He's the author of more than forty scientific articles and several academic books such as 'Nudge and the Law - A European Perspective' and the more accessible Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society', which provides a timely analysis and guide to levelling the democratic playing field by empowering ordinary citizens to speak up and inform policy decisions at local, national and international level. In addition to his academic writings in law, and public policy, Alberto is a regular contributor to Le Monde, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Politico Europe, Le Grand Continent and a frequent commentator on Euronews, France24, Al-Jazeera, and TV5Monde. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, Science and Nature among others. Alemanno has worked extensively with policymakers, funders, advocacy groups as well as progressive companies, in developing strategies and novel approaches to questions of democracy, political inequality, and corporate political behaviour. He regularly provides advice to international organizations, including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the European Commission, the European Parliament, the World Health Organization, dozens of non-governmental organizations as well as states. Alberto qualified as an attorney-at-law in New York and clerked at the Court of Justice of the European Union (2005-2009). He established and directed the EU Public Interest Law Clinic in collaboration with the New York University School of Law, where he has been Global Professor of Law (2014-2018). Alemanno holds LL.M. from Harvard Law School and the College of Europe as well as a PhD in international economic law from Bocconi University. He is the founder as well as the editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Risk Regulation (published by Cambridge University Press), of the Revue européenne du Droit (published by Le Grand Continent), and member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Consumer Policy.

Aleksandra Niżyńska

Job Titles:
  • Lawyer and Sociologist
  • Partner at Gender Solution
Aleksandra Niżyńska is a Partner at Gender Solution. She is a lawyer and a sociologist, specialising in gender issues. She worked as a researcher and analyst at the Institute of Public Affairs, where she established Gender Equality Observatory - a monitoring body for the gender equality principle in Poland. In her research she focuses on women's participation in politics. Aleksandra Niżyńska is the author of numerous reports on gender equality covering topics from economic violence against women, violence against women in politics to participation of women in the electoral process. She also worked as a Gender Officer for EIT Food, a part of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. She studied at the University of Warsaw.

Alexander Sergunin

Job Titles:
  • Professor of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Alexander Sergunin is a Professor of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He holds Ph.D. (history) from the Moscow State University (1985) and Habilitation (political science) from the St. Petersburg State University (1994). His fields of research and teaching include Arctic politics and governance, Russia's Arctic sustainable development, Russian foreign policy thinking and making. His most recent Arctic-related publications include:

Alexandra Voudouri

Job Titles:
  • Journalist
Alexandra Voudouri is a journalist, born in Athens. She has studied at the National University of Athens (BA) and at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies- University of Cardiff, UK (MA). She is covering diplomatic and European affairs issues for Greek media (printed and online), while focusing on developments in Southeastern Europe and mainly, in the Balkans. Within this framework she has conducted reports related to the implementation of the Prespa Agreement, on the importance of the European Union's enlargement, as well as on Disinformation in the Western Balkans, on behalf of NATO. Alexandra has also worked as a media advisor for the European Service Network (ESN) on issues related to disinformation and online propaganda. She is currently a foreign and political affairs analyst for the news service Macropolis.gr (www.macropolis.gr) as well as the municipal radio station, Athina 9.84 FM since 2004, where she a diplomatic affairs correspondent, while presenting a daily program focusing on foreign and European affairs. She has also worked with other Greek and international media like the BBC World Service, during the Greek economic crisis, as well as carrying out interviews with European officials.

Alexey Andreevich Kovalev

Job Titles:
  • Journalist, Translator, Media Manager and Commentator

Andrea Krizsán

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow at the Democracy Institute
Andrea Krizsán is Senior Research Fellow at the Democracy Institute and Professor at the School of Public Policy and the Gender Studies Department. She is interested in understanding policy change in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. She works on different equality policy fields including gender equality policy, policies on gender-based violence, policies addressing ethnic inequalities and intersectionality. Her current research aims to analyze the politics of policy backsliding in times of crisis and illiberal democracy and forms of resistance to such reversal. Her most recent book with Conny Roggeband is on opposition to the Istanbul Convention and its consequences (Palgrave 2021). She co-edited with Abels, MacRae and van den Vleuten the Routledge Handbook on Politics and Gender published in March 2021. She is the recipient of the inaugural Emma Goldman Award for her substantial contributions to the study of feminist and inequality issues in Europe. Her previous publications include a book with Roggeband which analysed domestic violence policy reforms in five Central and Eastern European countries (Routledge, 2018), articles in Politics and Governance, European Journal of Politics and Gender, Violence against Women, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social Politics, and Journal for Ethnic and Minority Studies and chapters in several edited volumes. She edited volumes on gendering democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe (2019, with Roggeband), a on women's movements mobilizing for policy change (2015), on institutionalizing intersectionality and the changing nature of European equality regimes (with J. Squires and H. Skjeie, 2012) and on ethnic monitoring and data collection (2001). Besides her academic work Andrea also acts as the Chair of the CEU Senate Equal Opportunity Committee and she leads the CEU team of the SUPERA Project - Supporting the Promotion of Equality in Research and Academia. Andrea has a PhD in Political Science from the Central European University.

Andreas Busch

Job Titles:
  • Political Scientist, University of Göttingen

Andreas Maurer

Job Titles:
  • Sänger, Kunsthistoriker, Kurator, Moderator Und Autor

Andrei Soldatov

Job Titles:
  • Russian Investigative Journalist

Angelina Davydova

Job Titles:
  • Environmental and Climate Journalist
  • Fellow of the Journalistic Program Media
Angelina Davydova is an environmental and climate journalist, writing for the Russian and international media, NGOs and think-tanks. She is a co-host of the English-language podcast The Eurasian Climate Brief. Davydova was based in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, until March 2022 (when she had to leave the country because of her anti-war position) and is now resides in Berlin, Germany. Davydova is currently a fellow of the journalistic program Media in Cooperation and Transition (MICT) in Berlin. She is a climate journalism coordinator with n-ost, a Berlin-based network for cross-border journalism and has been an observer with the UN climate negotiations (UNFCCC) since 2008. She is a member of the World Future Council since October 2020. Angelina Davydova has been delivering lectures and participating in seminars at numerous universities in Russia, Germany, and the US. She also organizes trainings on environmental and climate journalism and communication for media and NGO professionals. She has graduated from The St.Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance in 2000 and completed a number of international educational and professional development programs, including the Thomson Reuters Foundation programme in Oxford University (2006), City of Hamburg Young Leaders Internship Program (2009), Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (UC Berkeley, California, 2012) and Humphrey Fellowship (UC Davis, 2018-2019

Ann-Cathrine Jungar

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor at Södertörn University, Stockholm

Ann-Katrin Müller

Job Titles:
  • Political Editor, Der Spiegel

Anna Litvinenko

Job Titles:
  • Researcher at the "Digitalization and Participation
Anna Litvinenko, PhD, is a researcher at the "Digitalization and Participation" department of the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. In 2015-2020, she was a member of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group "Mediating (Semi-)Authoritarianism--The Power of the Internet in the Post-Soviet World" at FU Berlin. After receiving her PhD in 2007 in Russia, she worked as an associate professor at the Department of International Journalism of Saint Petersburg University (SPbU). Anna is a recipient of several grants including fellowships of the German Bundestag and of the German-Russian Forum (the "Journalists from Russia" programme). She has been a practicing journalist since 1996 and has received several journalism awards, among them the Special Prize of the Peter-Boenisch Contest of the German-Russian Forum "Petersburger Dialog" (2010). In 2011-2012, as a recipient of the German Chancellor Fellowship for Prospective Leaders (Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation), she was a visiting researcher at FU Berlin.

Annette Hillebrand

Job Titles:
  • Moderatorin Und Business Coach

Barry R. Posen

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Political Science at MIT
Barry R. Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT, Director Emeritus of the MIT Security Studies Program, and serves on the Executive Committee of Seminar XXI. He is the author of Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy, (Cornell University Press 2014), Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks (Cornell University Press 1991), and The Sources of Military Doctrine (Cornell University Press 1984 ). The latter won two awards: The American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award, and Ohio State University's Edward J. Furniss Jr. Book Award. He is also the author of numerous articles, including "Europe Can Defend Itself," Survival, December 2020, "The Rise of Illiberal Hegemony--Trump's Surprising Grand Strategy," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2018, "It's Time to Make Afghanistan Someone Else's Problem," The Atlantic, 2017, "Contain ISIS," The Atlantic, 2015, "Pull Back: The Case for a Less Activist Foreign Policy," Foreign Affairs, January/February 2013, and "Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of U.S. Hegemony," International Security, (Summer, 2003.) He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2016 he was appointed Henry A. Kissinger Chair (visiting) in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, John W. Kluge Center. He is the 2017 recipient of the International Security Studies Section (ISSS), International Studies Association, Distinguished Scholar Award, and in 2019 received the Notre Dame International Security Center's Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow; Rockefeller Foundation International Affairs Fellow; Guest Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, Smithsonian Institution; Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States; and a Visiting Fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center at Dartmouth College.

Benedict Feichtner

Job Titles:
  • Journalist Und EU - Experte

Bernd Oswald

Job Titles:
  • Freier Journalist

Bernd Parusel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee

Botond Feledy

Job Titles:
  • Foreign Policy Expert

Bruce Stokes

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund Associate Fellow, Chatham House

Carmen González Enríquez

Job Titles:
  • Senior Analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute

Cas Mudde

Job Titles:
  • Political Scientist, Professor at the University of Georgia, USA

Christian Haslacher

Job Titles:
  • Stellvertretender Ressortleiter Innenpolitik / APA, Data Analyse

Christian Jakubetz

Job Titles:
  • Co - Gründer Und Geschäftsführer Von Hybrid Eins

Christo Grozev

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Christopher Pramstaller

Job Titles:
  • Analyst Und User Researcher Bei Der Süddeutschen Zeitung

Damian Radcliffe

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Journalism at the University of Oregon

Dimitar Bechev

Job Titles:
  • Political Scientist, University of Oxford

Dmitry Dubrovskiy

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Dr George Siakas

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Political Behavior

Dr Jacek Kucharczyk

Job Titles:
  • President of the Institute of Public Affairs ( IPA )

Dr. Andy Kaltenbrunner

Job Titles:
  • Medienpolitik & Innovation

Dr. Angeliki Dimitriadi

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Migration Unit and Funded Programmes Manager at ENA Institute for Alternative Policies
  • Head of the Migration Unit at ENA Institute for Alternative Policies
Dr. Angeliki Dimitriadi is a Head of the Migration Unit at ENA Institute for Alternative Policies in Athens and non-resident fellow at GPPi in Berlin. She is a political scientist interested in irregular migration and asylum, and the interplay between migratory movement and policies of deterrence and protection. Her research looks on Europe, particularly the frontline countries and countries of transit (Turkey). She is adjunct professor at CYA and NKUA teaching courses on migration and asylum policy. From 2012 through 2022 she was Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Migration Programme at ELIAMEP (2017-2021). She was also Research Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) (2021-2022) working on migration issues, and Visiting Fellow in residence on migration and asylum policy at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) (2015-2016). She has published articles in referred journals and is the author of two monographs, "Transit migration to Greece: the case of Afghans, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis" (Nissos 2013, in Greek) and "Afghan migration to Europe: at the margins, looking in" (Palgrave, 2018). She holds a PhD from Democritus University of Thrace (2012), an MA from King's College London (2003) and a BSc from the London School of Economics (2002).

Dr. Srđan Bogosavljević

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. Tatiana Romanova

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor at St. Petersburg State University and at Higher School of Economics

Fabian Schmid

Job Titles:
  • Der Standard

Federica Cherubini

Job Titles:
  • Specialist in Audience Engagement

Fernando Vallespin

Job Titles:
  • Science Professor

Florian Bauer

Job Titles:
  • Journalist, Fernsehmoderator Und Medientrainer

Florian Klenk

Job Titles:
  • Journalist Und Jurist

Gabriel Proedl

Job Titles:
  • Reporter

Galina Timchenko

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Founder of Meduza

Gerard Ryle

Job Titles:
  • ICIJ 's Director

Gilles Paris

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee
  • Journalist and Author

Giovanna Pancheri

Job Titles:
  • Journalist, Anchor and International Correspondent

Helmut Spudich

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Presseclub Concordia

Iro Särkkä

Job Titles:
  • Expert

Isa Sonnenfeld

Job Titles:
  • Google News Lab

Ivan Krastev

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies

Johannes Meyer

Job Titles:
  • Freier Journalist Und Coach Für Design Sprints

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Job Titles:
  • US Economist and Nobel Prize Laureate

Karolina Wigura

Job Titles:
  • Historian, Sociologist, Journalist

Karolina Zbytniewska

Job Titles:
  • Journalist, Chief Editor at EURACTIV Poland

Kevin Mertens

Job Titles:
  • Freiberuflicher Bild - Producer

Khaled Yacoub

Job Titles:
  • Jordanian Journalist

Kirill Martynov

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Editor, Novaya Gazeta

Konstantin Gaaze

Job Titles:
  • Journalist

Laura Pérez

Job Titles:
  • Media Analyst

Laura Saarikoski

Job Titles:
  • Journalist, Editor - in - Chief at Leading Finish Daily Helsingin Sanomat

Lauren Kessler

Job Titles:
  • Journalist and Author

Lina Timm

Job Titles:
  • Media Lab Bayern

Lorenzo Gabrielli

Job Titles:
  • Political Scientist

Lorenzo Pregliasco

Job Titles:
  • Journalist, Specialist in Political Communication and Public Opinion Research

Luisa Meireles

Job Titles:
  • Director of Information, LUSA News Agency

Malte Herwig

Job Titles:
  • Journalist Und Autor

Maria Retter

Job Titles:
  • Tirol - Korrespondentin Beim "STANDARD

Mark Frankel

Job Titles:
  • Digital Media and Communications Professional

Martin Breum

Job Titles:
  • Danish Journalist and Author

Martin Ehl

Job Titles:
  • Journalist and Author

Melita H. Šunjić

Job Titles:
  • Communication Expert

Michael Bang Petersen

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Michaela Petek

Job Titles:
  • Crossmediales Storytelling Und Mobile Reporting

Misha Glenny

Job Titles:
  • IWM Rector

Nana Siebert

Job Titles:
  • DER STANDARD

Nataliya Gumenyuk

Job Titles:
  • Ukrainian Journalist

Nils Melzer

Job Titles:
  • Human Rights Chair of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Oana Popescu Zamfir

Job Titles:
  • Director of Global Focus

Olivia Lazard

Job Titles:
  • Fellow at Carnegie Europe

Patrick Weil

Job Titles:
  • Expert in Comparative Immigration, Citizenship, and Church - State Law and Policy

Patrik Oksanen

Job Titles:
  • Journalist and Security Expert

Paul Myers

Job Titles:
  • Journalist Bei Der BBC Und Leiter Der Research Clinic

Paul Radu

Job Titles:
  • Investigativ - Journalist

Pavol Demeš

Job Titles:
  • Policy Analyst, Civil Society Expert and TV Anchor

Peter Berger

Job Titles:
  • Journalist, Medienberater Und Trainer

Peter Chase

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow With the German Marshall Fund in Brussels

Peter Laufer

Job Titles:
  • Author, Broadcaster, Documentarian and Journalist

Piotr Buras

Job Titles:
  • European Council on Foreign Relations

Rainer Bauböck

Job Titles:
  • Migration Expert

Ramón González Férriz

Job Titles:
  • Journalist, Book Author

Richard Olbrecht

Job Titles:
  • Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut Für Entrepreneurship Und Innovation

Richard Parker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee
  • Public Policy Expert

Romanus Otte

Job Titles:
  • Springer Global Network

Rosa Balfour

Job Titles:
  • Director of Carnegie Europe

Sara Prestianni

Job Titles:
  • Specialist in International Migration Policies

Saša Mirković

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
  • Journalist, Media Manager

Sebastian Krause

Job Titles:
  • Medienunternehmer Und Journalist

Sergei Medvedev

Job Titles:
  • Russian Historian, Political Scientist, and Book Author

Sheri Berman

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University

Siddharth Varadarajan

Job Titles:
  • Indian Journalist
  • Journalist and a Founding Editor
Siddharth Varadarajan is an award-winning Indian journalist and a founding editor of the Indian digital news portal The Wire. He was editor of the English language national daily The Hindu from 2011 to 2013. He was the first editor to have been not drawn from the family of primary shareholders in its 150-year history. He joined The Hindu in 2004, as Strategic Affairs editor, before becoming the Chief of National Bureau. In 2007, Varadarajan was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley.[15] In 2009, he was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University. He has also served as a senior fellow at the Center for Public Affairs and Critical Theory at Shiv Nadar University in Delhi Varadarajan obtained his BA degree at London School of Economics and pursued his graduate studies at Columbia University.

Siegfried Samer

Job Titles:
  • Urheberrechtsgesellschaft AKM / Bereich New Media

Simon Pycha

Job Titles:
  • Journalist Und Datenanalyst

Stefan Mey

Job Titles:
  • Technologie - Journalist Und Buchautor

Stefano Feltri

Job Titles:
  • Editor - in - Chief of Domani

Stephen Hutchings

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Russian Studies

Sushant Singh

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer
Sushant Singh is lecturer in South Asian studies at Yale University and consulting editor with The Caravan magazine in India. A Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, his writings have regularly appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Walrus, DW, Tagesspiegel, The Hindu and other publications. Sushant was earlier the Deputy Editor of The Indian Express newspaper in India where he twice won the acclaimed Ramnath Goenka award for excellence in journalism. Prior to that, he served in the Indian army for two decades, including a stint with the United Nations in Cote d'Ivoire. He is the author of Mission Overseas: Daring Operations by the Indian Military and the co-author of Note by Note: The India Story 1947-2017.

Susi Meret

Job Titles:
  • Historian, Professor at Aalborg University

Sven Preger

Job Titles:
  • Diplom - Journalist Und Systemischer Coach

Sylvie Kauffmann

Job Titles:
  • Editorial Director and Columnist, Le Monde

Tim Judah

Job Titles:
  • Journalist and Author

Tobias Rohe

Job Titles:
  • Redaktionsleiter Bei Die Podcastproduzenten Und Freier Autor

Tomas Baert

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Trade & Agriculture Section at the European Union Delegation to the United States

Torsten Kjølby Nielsen

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Head of Department at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Arctic, and North America

Valbona Zeneli

Job Titles:
  • Expert in Transatlantic Relations

Verena Govoni

Job Titles:
  • Konzept, Art - Direktion, Graphic Design

Vivian Wu

Job Titles:
  • News Editor, BBC Chinese, Hong Kong Bureau Head, BBC World Service

Vladimir Shopov

Job Titles:
  • European Council on Foreign Relations

Wojciech Przybylsk

Job Titles:
  • Analyst and Journalist

Wolfgang Blau

Job Titles:
  • the Guardian 's Director of Digital Strategy