Adla Shashati is the Director of the Greek Forum of Migrants and founder of Rootes: Migrants Memory Solidarity Collective. She brings extensive experience in migration, migrant communities, social inclusion, and combating racism and discrimination, with a strong track record at both national and European levels.

She has been actively involved in European networks and initiatives advancing migrants’ rights and racial justice, including serving as the Southern Europe representative at the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) in the past and currently as a member of the Steering Committee of Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative.

Adla is also a member of the Sudanese community in Greece and part of the Døcumatism collective. Through this work, she has contributed to the curation and coordination of collaborative artistic and community initiatives with migrant and refugee communities, focusing on strengthening visibility, representation, and meaningful participation.

Aleksandra Kuzmanovic is a digital diplomacy, social media and leadership communication strategist with more than a decade of experience in global health at the World Health Organization (WHO). In her current role as WHO’s Leadership and Positioning Social Media Manager, she advises Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and senior leadership on digital communication strategies that drive policy change and bridge gaps in global health dialogues. Ms Kuzmanovic led WHO’s social media response to the COVID-19 pandemic and was the lead anchor of the #AskWHO live social media podcast throughout the pandemic. Since then, she has led WHO’s partnerships with the tech industry and academia, building evidence on the importance of social media communication in ensuring access to credible, timely health information and in driving change in people’s health decision-making. She holds an MA in Standardization, Social Regulation and Sustainable Development from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and a BE in Quality Management from the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Antonis Galanopoulos is a political researcher and project coordinator at Eteron – Institute for Research and Social Change. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and a master’s degree in Political Theory and Philosophy from the same institution. His research focuses on political discourse analysis, psychosocial studies, democracy and the populism/anti-populism divide.

Christos Avramidis is a journalist and researcher based in Greece.

He specialises in documentary work on politics, environmental issues, and social movements, and produces content for Greek, U.S., and Italian media outlets and serves as the chief editor of Jacobin Greece.

A board member of the Journalists’ Association in Northern Greece, he is also a PhD candidate focusing on social movements and alternative media, with additional experience producing documentaries for Greek television.

Dimitra Siatitsa is an independent researcher working on housing and urban studies. She is currently doing research at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and the National Centre of Social Research. Her work focuses on socio-spatial inequalities, sustainable development, public policies, alternative initiatives and social movements, with a focus on Southern Europe. She collaborates with local, regional and national authorities on housing and social policies and is a founding member of CoHab, an action-research group on collaborative housing. She is also a member of international networks, including INURA and ENHR.

Elke Krasny, PhD, Professor for Art and Education and Head of the Art and Education Program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a feminist cultural theorist, urban researcher, curator, and author. Her scholarship and her international lectures address ecological and social justice at the global present with a focus on caring practices in architecture, urbanism, curatorial work, and contemporary art. In 2011, Krasny received the Outstanding Artist Award – Women’s Culture. Krasny supervises PhD students working with feminist and queer feminist epistemologies and methodologies in art, architecture, urbanism, and curating.  Together with Urska Jurman, she initiated Ecologies of Care. The 2019 exhibition and edited volume Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, curated and edited together with Angelika Fitz, was published by MIT Press and introduces a care perspective in architecture addressing the anthropogenic conditions of the global present.  Together with Angelika Fitz and Marvi Mazhar, she edited the book Yasmeen Lari. Architecture for the Future (MIT Press, 2023) Her book Living with an Infected Planet.  Covid-19, Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care introduces feminist worry and feminist hope in order then to develop a feminist cultural theory on pandemic frontline ontologies and feminist recovery plans.

Enikő Vincze currently works at the Department of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Her research interest focused on nationalism, racism, feminism and intersectionality, socio-spatial marginalization and exclusion, uneven development, urban development, housing, real estate development. Enikő is a political activist on housing justice, involved in to the local movement Căși sociale ACUM!/ Social housing NOW, and the national coalition Blocul pentru Locuire.

Gresa Hasa is an expert on Albania and the Western Balkans, with a particular focus on the rule of law,
state capture, democratic backsliding, and electoral politics. She is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of
Law and the Center for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, as well as a 2026
BiEPAG Fellow. Her current research focuses on the 2016 judicial reform in Albania and broader
processes of Europeanization. In addition to her academic work, she regularly contributes political and
cultural commentary to regional and international media outlets.

James Bridle is a writer, artist, carpenter and technologist. Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and online. Their writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. They are the author of ‘New Dark Age’ (2018) and ‘Ways of Being’ (2022), and they wrote and presented “New Ways of Seeing” for BBC Radio 4 in 2019. Their work can be found at http://jamesbridle.com.

Jelena Vasiljević is a Senior Research Associate and Coordinator of the Laboratory for Philanthropy, Solidarity, and Care Studies at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, where she also serves as Vice-Chair of the Governing Board. She holds a PhD in Ethnology and Anthropology from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She was a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz.

With a background in political anthropology and citizenship studies, she has developed interdisciplinary expertise on citizenship (particularly its transformations in post-Yugoslav states), memory politics, identity narratives, as well as civic engagement and social movements in the Balkans. More recently, her research has concentrated on theories and practices of solidarity, as well as local civic engagement, with a particular focus on environmental mobilisation.

She is the author and co-author of three monographs, has published extensively in academic and professional outlets, and has worked as a consultant and researcher in numerous international projects and collaborations with civil society organisations. She is an expert member of The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) and a member of the Transnational Board of Trustees of the European Alternatives.

Lydia is a journalist and audio producer based between Greece and the US. Her work has appeared in news outlets such as The New York Times, NPR, BBC, Al Jazeera and more. She has specifically investigated the topic of border regimes and new technologies. She is currently serving as co-editor-in-chief at the Greek investigative outlet Solomon. 

Oksana Forostyna (Lviv 1978), is Opinion Editor at Ukraina Moderna, publisher, and author.  She is  also a Visegrad Insight Fellow and Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in 2022-2023. A former executive editor for Krytyka Journal, she contributes to Liberties, The European Review of Books, Krytyka, and Visegrad Insight.

Onur Akgül, a climate activist and researcher, has been working in various branches of climate, environmental, and rights areas as activist, NGO expert, and researcher for about 15 years. A volunteer of the Northern Forests Defense (Kuzey Ormanları Savunması) in Istanbul, Akgül is involved in the climate crisis and climate justice politics, grassroots movements as part of urban and environmental resistance, bicycle activism, ecological, and animal rights movements in Turkey. He has been a volunteer and activist for the Northern Forests Defense since its establishment in 2013 and is actively engaged with local movements, community organizing, and grassroots politics for ecological preservation, wildlife protection, urban resilience, coal phase-out, just transition, and climate justice. He worked with Greenpeace as a Climate and Energy Campaigner for 5 years and also worked with other prominent environmental and climate NGOs in Turkey, such as 350.org and TEMA Foundation. Writing regularly on the local and global environmental crisis and climate politics, Akgül recently co-authored (with Mine Yıldırım) a chapter on deforestation, industrial agriculture, and wildlife destruction in the age of zoonotic diseases in the book titled *Pandemic: Rethinking the World in the Age of Extinction* (Tellekt, 2020). Akgül also authored an article on just transition and its function in global and national climate policy in the book titled *Ecology: The Future of Coexistence* (Tellekt, 2022). Based in Istanbul, Akgül currently works as a Climate Change Researcher and Just Transition Lead at the Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University, sharing his research as academic reports with the public and relevant stakeholders.

Réka’s practice focuses on international arbitration and related court proceedings primarily in relation to distribution and sales contracts, joint ventures and SPAs in the energy, construction, pharmaceutical, aviation and mining sectors.

She has handled complex and high-stakes arbitral proceedings under various rules (ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, SCC, Swiss Rules, CAS) as tribunal secretary, counsel and arbitrator.

Réka is included in the list of candidates for arbitrator appointments under the European Union‘s trade agreements.

Vasiliki Polykarpou is a scholar working on political coalitions, violence, feminist and anti-racist politics.

Veronique Sehier – Planning Familial France, Member of EA Board, Member of the Group of Research on anti-Gender attacks.

Prof. Xenia Chryssochoou obtained degrees in Psychology from the University of Athens and the University Rene Descartes-Paris V (PhD 1996). She has worked at different Universities in France, Switzerland and the United Kingdom before moving in 2004 at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences where she is currently Professor of Social and Political Psychology and Director of the Social and Political Psychology lab. Her research interests concern the social psychological aspects of identity construction in liberal societies, issues of migration and multiculturalism and political participation. She has written extensively scientific papers and books and she has directed special issues and collective books on these subjects. She is a member of many international scientific societies and she has been a member of the Executive Committee and Secretary of the European Association of Social Psychology. From 2021 to 2025 she was Chair of the Scientific Council of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (www.elidek.gr)