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Borislav Sandov is currently the co-chairman of the Bulgarian Green Party, known as Zelenite. At Sofia’s St. Kliment Ohridski University he was vice-chairman of the Student Committee. Sandov now co-ordinates the Bulgarian movement for food independence and climate justice. He is active on the committee of the Bulgarian Climate Coalition, the Anna Politikovskaya  Association of Free Speech, GMO-free Bulgaria, Bulgaria…

Professor Ranabir Samaddar directs the Calcutta Research Group. Along with others, he has pioneered peace studies programmes throughout South Asia. He has worked extensively on issues relating to justice and rights in the context of South Asian conflicts and the much-acclaimed The Politics of Dialogue (Ashgate, 2004) was the culmination of his work in this field. He specialises in migration…

Eszter Salgó is interested in what Freud described as “[the] three impossible professions” – politics, psychoanalysis and pedagogy. She teaches in American University of Rome’s Department of International Relations and her publications explore how people’s desires, fantasies and emotions shape political events and social phenomena; they highlight the mythical sources of today’s political projects, the power of political imagination, and…

Kathrin Deventer is secretary general of the European Festival Association, A Soul for Europe Strategy Group. She is also a co-founding member of the European House for Culture, an initiative set up by the European Festivals Association. Additionally, she is a member of the Strategy Group ASfE and involved in the EU Culture Platform, Access to Culture. Information valid as…

Brian Denny was the nominating officer for the No2EU coalition that stood in the 2009 European elections, gaining 153,000 votes. He is also the editor of the RMT union magazine, a Campaign Against Euro-Federalism member and a writer for various publication on European affairs. Information valid as of October 2012.

Radka Denemarková is a Czech writer, dramaturge, translator of German fiction and a literary historian. She lives in Prague. After studying German and Czech language and literature at the Charles University in Prague, she worked at the Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences, as well as a dramaturge at the Theatre on the Balustrade. She has…

Felix De Clerck was a co-organisor of the SHAME protest march in Brussels in 2011 and campaigned as a candidate for the youth wing of the Flemish Christian Democrats in 2012. Information valid as of October 2012.

Professor Norman Davies, FBA, CMG, is a UNESCO professor of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, professor emeritus of London University, and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He was one of the first Alistair Horne fellows at St Antony’s College, Oxford University in 1970-2, and has returned to the college as a visiting fellow. Professor Davies’s early career launched…

Neil Davenport is a former music journalist whose writing has been published in City Life, Manchester Evening News, Jockey Slut, Metro, Select, 7, Sleaze Nation, Q, Uncut and London Lite. He now writes regularly for the current affairs journal, spiked, on such issues as multiculturalism, education, drugs, licensing laws, anti-materialist sceptics and the white working class. In September 2007, he…

Anna Daučíková is a Slovak visual artist based in Prague and Bratislava. In the 1980s, after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, she moved to Moscow, where she created a black-and-white series of photographs documenting her Muscovite and Soviet period. On her return to Bratislava in 1991 she helped found Aspekt, Slovakia’s first feminist journal. In 1994…

Hongjian Cui  is the director of the Department for European Studies at the Chinese Institute of International Studies in Beijing, China, where he has been since 1998. He is also a senior research fellow. Dr. Cui served as the first secretary and director of the Office of Political Affairs, Chinese Consulate General in Mumbai, India from 2004 to 2007. From…

Magnólia Costa is the head of institutional affairs at the Museum of Modern Art [MAM] in São Paulo, Brazil. She is a philosopher, translator and art critic, specialising in 17th Century Franco-Italian Art. She received her PhD in philosophy from the University of São Paulo and now lectures on contemporary art history and Brazilian culture at São Paulo’s MAM, where…