Andrea works at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on coordinating (inter alia) activities on assistance to media during elections. In previous assignments with UNESCO he has been responsible of the CI programme in sub-regional offices for North-East Asia (in Beijing - 2011-14), the Maghreb (in Rabat - 2015-18), as well as in the UNESCO office in Afghanistan (2003-2004). Always dealing with media development and the promotion of freedom of expression, he undertook shorter missions to the Middle-East, Central Asia, as well as in Central and East African countries; and worked for the specialized NGO International Media Support. In the past, he worked as investigative journalist and current-affairs documentary maker in his country of origin (Italy).

Diana Dutsyk is executive director of CSO “Ukrainian Media and Communication Institute”, lecturer at Kyiv Mogyla School of Journalism (course “Text in multimedia age”), Ph. D. in Phylology. More than 20 years in journalism at different positions: at regional and central media, chief editor of a line of printed and on-line media (“Glavred-media” holding, web-site “PiK”, newspaper “Bez tsenzury”). Analyst in the monitoring of the media coverage of the 2019 presidential and parliamentary campaigns in Ukraine that were implemented by the coalition of the Civil Society Organisations consisting of "The Commission on Journalism Ethics", "Human Rights Platform", "Ukrainian Media and Communications Institute" and "StopFake" with the support of the Council of Europe projects.

Mr. Rasťo Kužel is a media & election expert with over 21 years of international experience. Since 1998, he has been at MEMO 98, a proficient media monitoring organization with extensive experience of delivering media monitoring on behalf of international institutions as well as technical assistance to civil-society groups, the media and regulatory bodies. Rasťo has worked as media and election analyst, consultant, and trainer, participating in a number of election observation missions and projects. For the last 5 years, Rasťo has focused intensively on the issue of disinformation in the context of elections, conducting a research on the impact of different types of narratives in the former Soviet Union countries and beyond. More recently, he has also focused on the role of social media during elections and ways to tackle their negative impact on elections processes as well as ways how to monitor these trends in the context of international observation of elections. He co-authored a White Paper on Social Media, Disinformation and Electoral Integrity to guide International Foundation for Electoral Systems in this area.

Olga Yurkova is a journalist and cofounder of StopFake, an independent Ukrainian organization that trains an international cohort of fact-checkers in an effort to curb propaganda and disinformation in the media. She teaches different audiences how [prooaganda works and how to identify fake news, consulting a range of organizations and public structures. She has 15 years in journalism. Yurkova has been working as a media trainer since 2012. For fighting propaganda, she was included in the list of New Europe 100 and was named a TED Fellow in 2018. Her TED Talk was watched more than 1 million times.