Helen Darbishire | Access Info | Madrid | www.access-info.org

Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info Europe, is a human rights professional specializing in access to information, freedom of expression and media freedom. Helen has extensive experience of working to promote the right to information globally, including by assisting drafting and promoting implementation of access to information laws in Europe, Latin America, and Africa. She is a founder and current chair of the Freedom of Information Advocates Network. Helen's human rights experience spans 20 years. She has worked with Article 19 (London and Paris, 1989-1998) and the Open Society Institute (Budapest and New York, 1999-2005) and as a consultant with inter-governmental organizations (including UNESCO, Council of Europe, OSCE, and World Bank).

Christian Mihr | n-ost | Berlin | www.n-ost.de

Christian has been working as a senior editor of the Network for Reporting on Eastern Europe n-ost. Throughout Europe he has been giving media-trainings for journalists, furthermore he has been lecturing at several universities and publishing on international media regulation politics, the information society, the relationship between political PR and political journalism, media-systems in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Prior to joining n-ost he worked as a journalist for various print- and online-media in Germany and Ecuador, as a media trainer in Southern-Russia and as the head of press and public relations department at one of the leading think tanks on international development policy.

 

Lydia Medland | Access Info | Madrid | www.access-info.org

Lydia Medland has been with Access Info Europe since September 2008. She works as a researcher and coordinates the Freedom of Information Advocates Network. With Access Info she has researched and published two reports, on aid transparency and the Police; Not Available! Not Accesi-ble! and, The Right to Know: Europe and the Police. Lydia has been involved in Access Info's work with the Coalición pro Acceso, the campaign for an Access to Information law in Spain. She has also developed campaign and outreach strategies for several of Access Info's projects such as Access Info's project for journalists and our work on civil liberties.

Andreas Bock | n-ost | Berlin | www.n-ost.de

Andreas has been with the Network for Reporting on Eastern Europe since May 2008. He is an editor for the European online press review eurotopics. As a project manager for the German Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) he has organised numerous cultural projects in Budapest (2005 – 2008). He has researched an in-depth study on the Hungarian cultural sector and  worked as a freelance journalist for various print media. Andreas gave several media trainings in Hungary, Serbia and Croatia.