Barbora Bukovska has been ARTICLE 19’s Senior Director for Law and Policy, international free speech organisation, since 2009. She leads on the development of all ARTICLE 19 policies and provides legal oversight and support to legal work across the organization. Barbora has an extensive experience working with various organisations on a range of human rights issues, including protection from discrimination, access to justice, deprivation of liberty, reproductive rights and community development. She also initiated about 50 cases at the European Court of Human Rights on these issues and has published a number of reports and articles on a broad range of human rights. From 2006 to 2008, she was the Legal Director at the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, an international organization working on the rights of people with disabilities in Europe and Central Asia. She graduated from the Law School of Charles University in Prague and has earned a doctorate degree in law in Slovakia and an LLM degree from Harvard Law School. In 1998 and 1999, she was a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Law School in New York.

Dr Agnès Callamard is Secretary General at Amnesty International. She leads the organization's human rights work and is its chief spokesperson. She is responsible for providing overall leadership of the International Secretariat, including setting the strategic direction for the organisation and managing relations with Amnesty International’s national entities.

Agnès has been a prominent figure in the human rights world for decades. In 2016, she was appointed as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary killings. Along with her UN work, Agnès was also the Director of Global Freedom of Expression at Columbia University in New York.

Previously she was Executive Director of the freedom of expression organization Article 19.
As a leading advocate for freedom of expression, a feminist and an anti-racism activist, she pushes out the frontiers of rights through her scholarship and advocacy.

Can Yeğinsu is an English barrister, university lecturer, and Member of the High-Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom. He is the author of the Panel’s Advisory Report on Providing Safe Refuge to Journalists at Risk and is recognised as one of the United Kingdom’s leading lawyers practising in civil liberties, human rights, and international law. Mr. Yeğinsu has acted in several landmark cases representing journalists and media outlets before the U.K. Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the ECOWAS Court of Justice. He is currently lead counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in their cases before the European Court of Human Rights, and a member of Maria Ressa’s international legal team, with Amal Clooney and Caoilfhionn Gallagher Q.C. Mr. Yeğinsu is also a member of faculty at Columbia Law School where he co-teaches two seminars on the right to freedom of expression, and at Georgetown Law where he teaches public international law.

Paul Radu is the co-founder and co-executive director of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the co-creator of the Investigative Dashboard concept and the co-founder of RISE Project , a platform for investigative reporters and hackers in Romania. He has held a number of fellowships, including the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship, the Milena Jesenska Press Fellowship, the Rosalyn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, the Knight International Journalism fellowship with the International Center for Journalists as well as a Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowship. He is the recipient of numerous awards including in the Knight International Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Global Shining Light Award, the Tom Renner Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, the Sigma Award for Data Journalism, an IJ4EU Award, a European Press Prize and others. Paul is an Ashoka Global fellow and a board member with the Global Investigative Journalism Network. Paul was working in the Panama Papers and the Russian, Azerbaijani and Troika Laundromat and he coined the term "laundromat" to define TOR-like large scale money laundering operations.