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Giacomo Di Girolamo is an Italian journalist, based in Sicily. He is the director of Radio RMC 101 and author of the book Matteo Messina Denaro. L’invisibile, about a Sicilian mafia boss, regarded as the new Cosa Nostra godfather and amongst the top ten most wanted criminals in the world. Information valid as of 2012.

Stanislava Georgieva is a Bulgarian born photographer, with a bachelor in fine arts from the New York based School of Visual Arts, an art history degree from The National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia and an associates degree in commercial photography from the La Guardia Community College, New York. Although only at the start of her career, Stanislava has…

Teun Gautier is the director and publisher of De Groene Amsterdammer. After undertaking HBO Management training in the field of communication skills, he went to the U.S.A. for an internship with the publishing house, Reed. When he moved back to the Netherlands he soon became the director of Reed Exhibitions, later Reed Belgium. At the age of 29, he moved…

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of nine books of political writing or “history of the present” which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last thirty years. He is a professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, an Isaiah Berlin professorial fellow at St Anthony’s College, Oxford and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford…

Declan Ganley is an Irish entrepreneur and chairman & CEO of Rivada Networks, a leading public safety communications business with operations in the US and Europe. Declan has built a number of businesses in the telecommunications and natural resources sector, including Broadnet, which rolled out wireless networks in ten European countries. He started a cable TV network, Cabletel, in Eastern…

Cristina Gallach is the spokesperson and chief media advisor to the Office of the High Representative of the EU for the Common Foreign and Security Policy. She studied Anglo-Germanic Philology and in the Faculty of Journalism at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona before taking a Master’s degree in International Affairs (MIA) at Columbia University, New York. Previously Cristina worked as…

Dr. Ivan Gabal is a Czech sociologist, has been a board member of Masarysk University and is one of the founders of Občanské fórum [Civic Forum]. In his youth he studied sociology at the Charles University of Prague, before then proceeding to work for the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the ČSAV [Československá akademie věd] During the Velvet Revolution, he…

Ashley Frawley’s PhD research concerns the recent problematisation of happiness and wellbeing in the UK. She is also interested in the sociology of knowledge and the roles of emotion and therapy culture in contemporary social movements and in the emergence of social problems. Ashley has also taught at various levels, both in the UK and abroad, and indeed currently teaches…

Myriam Francois-Cerrah is an English political commentator, specialising in Islamic issues both in Western societies and within the Middle East. She is also in the process of pursuing an academic career. Having obtained a BA in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, she is currently studying for a DPhil focussing…

Robert Foltin is an Austrian author, theoretician, philosopher and political activist. Educated in phonology and linguistics, he is known for his political activism and his writings. Recent publications include: Und wir bewegen uns noch: Zur jüngeren Geschichte sozialer Bewegungen in Österreich (On the Recent History of Social Movements in Austria), (Post-)Operaismus: Von der Arbeiterautonomie zur Multitude ((Post)Operaismo: From Autonomia Operaia to…

Wolfgang Templin was a leading member of the democratic opposition in the last years of the DDR [Soviet East Germany] and has since then worked as a publicist, concerned with the history of the DDR, the former Eastern Bloc and German reunification. Politically, Wolfgang took part in the Round Table discussions and co-founded the IFM [Initiative für Frieden und Menschenrechte/The…

Justin Svoboda is a Czech actor and presenter. Since 2002, he’s been employed by the Středočeské divadlo, Kladno [The Central Bohemian Theatre, Kladno] and he also regularly appears as a guest actor at Prague theatres, including the Dejvické divadlo, the State Opera and Alfréd ve Dvoře. He also does a significant amount of work as a host and presenter at…