Meet the Speakers

A former Executive Director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy and a retired U.S. senior foreign service officer, Dr. Vivian S. Walker is Co-President of the Public Diplomacy Council of America.

Ola Myrovych heads the Lviv Media Forum, a Ukrainian NGO supporting independent media and amplifying Ukrainian voices internationally.

Eto Buziashvili is a Research Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab, where she leads its work on Russia.

Oleksandra is a project director at Centre for Information Resilience and an information security expert with 9 years of experience.

Marília Gehrke (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen.

Sandro Gigauri has extensive professional experience in disinformation analysis, fact-checking, media literacy, and media development.

Tinatin Gogoladze is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in media analysis, monitoring, and training. Currently serving as the Head of Media Monitoring Department at the MDF.

Mihai Avasiloaie is the editor-in-chief of Stopfals.md, a fact-checking media outlet from Moldova specialized in fighting disinformation.

Alina Radu is an investigative journalist, co-owner and manager of Ziarul de Gardă (ZdG), the largest investigative reporting outlet in Moldova.

Etienne Soula is a Brussels-based research fellow with the South and Wider Europe Program at GMF.

Emmanuel Colombié holds degrees from a management school in Marseille and the Institut Français de Journalisme (IFJ) in Paris.

Jeanne Cavelier is a journalist who started at specialized magazines before working as a Moscow correspondent covering Russia for the French media.

Nino Robakidze is a freedom fighter, advocate for freedom of expression, and media enthusiast, with over 15 years of experience.

Narine Yeganyan is a strategic communications expert and researcher specializing in hybrid threats, FIMI, gendered disinformation, conflict studies, and social solidarity and resilience.

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Ani Grigoryan is an Armenian investigative journalist and disinformation researcher with over 13 years of experience.

Aistė Meidutė has nearly a decade of experience countering disinformation, specialising in Kremlin-backed propaganda, foreign information manipulation and democratic resilience.

Jan manages fact-checking at Demagog.cz, where he oversees operations within Meta’s Third-Party Fact-Checking program and the fact-checking work of CEDMO.

Stephan Mündges is the Coordinator of the EFCSN, the association of Europe's fact-checkers. He previously worked as the general manager of the Institute of Journalism at TU Dortmund University.

Sam Jeffers is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Who Targets Me, which produces software and analysis to help people understand how political campaigns use advertising to win votes.

Victoire Rio is the founder and executive director of WHAT TO FIX, a tech policy and accountability nonprofit, and a leading expert on social media monetization and its impact on information integrity.

Dr. Mamuka Andguladze chairs the Media Advocacy Coalition, which brings together 16 non-governmental organizations working on media-related issues.

Artur Papyan is the President of the Yerevan Press Club and previously worked for more than a decade as a journalist and multimedia editor.

Zsófia Fülöp is a Hungarian journalist at Lakmusz, Hungary’s only independent fact-checking site.

Marta Ardashelia is a Georgian journalist, media executive, and Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of SOVA News, an independent Russian-language media outlet covering Georgia, the South Caucasus, and Eastern Europe.

Rusudan Dzigrashvili is Programs Director at the Media Development Foundation, where she has been developing and managing programmes across Myth Detectorand MDF.