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Jacques Monasch is a member of the Dutch House of Representatives for the Dutch Labour Party. Born in Rotterdam, he spent his youth in Drachten, Ethiopia and Tanzania. He studied public administration at the Faculty of Law, specialising in international relations at the University of Groningen. Upon completing his first degree he then undertook a master’s degree in political economy…

George Möller is a chairman of the board of trustees of The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets. Previously, he was the director of the Amsterdam Options Exchange and president-director of the Amsterdam Exchanges (AEX) and Euronext Amsterdam. From 2004 to 2009, he was also a chairman of the Robeco management board. In 2012, Möller debuted as an author with…

Josef Mlejnek Jr. is a Czech journalist and academic. A senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Charles University in Prague, Josef also writes for Lidové noviny and Revue politika. As an academic he specialises in the culture and politics of Central and Eastern Europe in the transition to democractic and constitutional electoral systems. Josef is also active…

Ferenc Miszlivetz, President of the Hungarian Social Sciences UNESCO Committee; Professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest.He has several academic positions. The following is just a selection of some of his many roles: President of the Hungarian Social Sciences UNESCO Committee; Professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest; István Deák, Visiting Professor, Columbia University, Harriman Institute, New York; Research Professor, Péter…

Nicolas Bertrand is the executive manager of Image Aiguë. He has been responsible for several cultural projects in rural areas, organising a theatre festival for young audiences and a number of residencies for young visual artists in Alsace and Lorraine. Since 2001, he has been working for the theatre company, Image Aiguë. Under the direction of Christiane Véricel, Image Aiguë has…

Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish sociologist and philosopher. A professor at Warsaw University until he was expelled from the university during the antisemitic purge of 1968, he emigrated to Israel and taught at universities in Tel Aviv and Haifa. In 1971 he was invited to chair the Social Sciences Department at Leeds University in the UK. He took up the…

Thierry Baudet is a Dutch academic and journalist. He works for the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law at the University of Leiden and as a columnist for the NRC Handelsblad. He recently wrote The Significance of Borders: Why Representative Government and the Rule of Law Requires Nation States (2012). You can read more about Thierry Baudet on his…

Milena Bartlová is a Czech art historian, a specialist in medieval art and culture, the methodology of art history, and museum and visual studies. She is a professor in the Department of Art Theory and History at the Prague University of Applied Arts. She has contributed to the collection of essays Krize, nebo konec kapitalismu? [Crisis or the End of…

Jamie Bartlett is the director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media and Head of the Violence and Extremism programme at Demos. He is also the author of The New Face of Digital Populism and Inside the English Defence League. Information valid as of 23.05.2013

Dirk Barrez is a writer, documentary film maker and journalist, currently working for the Flemish online news portal De Wereld Morgen. Dirk Barrez has produced around 50 documentaries and is the author of many books, the latest of which was Van Verontwaardiging naar Verandering [From outrage to change] (2011), a title which built upon his previous trilogy containing Ik wil niet…

Jan Balog is the founder of the Czech civic association Palestra, Boxing Club Information valid as of 23.05.2013

Eszter Babarczy is a Hungarian journalist and historian based in Budapest. She has worked for several periodicals, including Beszélő and Nappali ház, where she was editor-in-chief. She has published a number of books and participated in various research projects focusing on new media. She is the founder of the internet association bom.hu for young talent in Hungary. She presently works…