Syed Nazakat, India, is an award-winning journalist, media entrepreneur, founder and CEO of DataLEADS, a tech and digital media company he founded to promote open data and democratization of information at scale.  Nazakat has reported from over 30 countries and worked in senior positions at different media organizations. His work has earned him global recognition and awards. He has spearheaded one of the world’s biggest fact-checking, data journalism and media literacy training networks which has resulted in the launch of many fact-checking initiatives, in multiple languages, and has benefited hundreds of institutions and organizations across India.

Frederik is a book author and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter. Together with his colleague Bastian Obermaier he founded the Munich-based investigative newsroom paper trail media. In Germany, paper trail media is exclusively partnering with the magazine Der Spiegel and the public broadcaster ZDF. In Austria, paper trail media collaborates with Der Standard. Obermaier is one of the two reporters first contacted by the anonymous source of the Panama Papers, the leaked documents that prompted a global investigation involving hundreds of journalists. He also co-initiated the Paradise Papers-revelations and the Suisse Secrets-investigations.

Naglaa is a Professor at the Jordan Media Institute, professor of Media and Journalism Studies, British University in Egypt (BUE), Consultant for Thomson Reuters Foundation, she was previously London editor at BBC World Service, Cairo Bureau Chief and Middle East Special Projects Editor at BBC World Service. She has worked as a journalist in Paris and has a PhD in media studies from the Sorbonne.

She started by sharing stories at the microphones of local radio stations, before giving voice to people through news magazine features. In 2016, she was part of the jury for the Gabriel García Márquez Prize, the most prestigious Ibero-American Journalism award. She is one of the invited authors of the book “Tudo Por Uma Boa História” (Everything For a Good Story), which reveals the behind-the-scenes of Journalism. She is also a member of the Media and Journalism Literacy Association (ALPMJ) in Portugal. As an award-winning Journalist, she has received more than a dozen distinctions. Her coverage of the pandemic was awarded six prizes. She is particularly interested in covering stories that shed light on the disregard for Human Rights.

Katia is part of the leadership of the Abraji Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo, she is a journalist graduated from the State University of Ponta Grossa. She worked as a reporter at Gazeta do Povo and since 2013 she has been a professor of Journalism at Positivo University. With the Secret Diaries series, along with three colleagues, she won the Esso Grand Prize, the Tim Lopes Investigative Journalism/Embratel Prize, the Ipys Investigative Reporting Prize in Latin America, and the Global Shining Light Award. With expertise in covering the environment and Judiciary, she won the SOS Mata Atlântica Prize and the Association of Magistrates of Brazil Prize.

Lorenzo Natali was a Commissioner for Development and a staunch defender of freedom of expression, democracy, human rights and development. He served three terms as one of Italy’s European Commissioners.

Natali played an important role in the EU accession process of Greece, Spain and Portugal. He also helped enact key measures to combat pollution and improve living conditions across Europe. In his final four-year term as Commissioner, from 1985 until 1989, he was handed responsibility for cooperation and development policy in the Commission under President Jacques Delors. It was in this capacity that he set up a broad network of relations with the governments and leaders of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.