Silvio Waisbord is Director and Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author or editor of eighteen books, as well as articles on journalism, politics, communication studies, media policy, and global social change. His most recent books are The Communication Manifesto (Polity), and El Imperio de la Utopia (Peninsula). He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Communication and the International Journal of Press/Politics. He is a Fellow of the International Communication Association. Waisbord received a Licenciatura in Sociology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego.   

Web page: https://smpa.gwu.edu/silvio-r-waisbord

Gabor Halmai is Professor and Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law, and Director of Graduate Studies at the Law Department of the European University Institute (EUI). His primary research interests are comparative constitutional law and international human rights. He has published several books and articles, as well as edited volumes on these topics in English, German and Hungarian. He joined EUI in 2016 after a teaching and research career (at the Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, Princeton University in the USA, the European Masters Program in Human Rights and Democratization in Italy) as well as years of professional career as chief advisor to the President of the Hungarian Constitutional Court, member of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s Management Board and numerous other civic activities.

Web page: https://me.eui.eu/gabor-halmai/

Mathias Siems is Professor of Private Law and Market Regulation at the European University Institute (EUI).

He is on special leave from Durham University where he had taught since 2011. Previously, he was a professor at the University of East Anglia, a reader at the University of Edinburgh, an associate professor at the Riga Graduate School of Law, a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School, and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI. He is a graduate of the universities of Munich and Edinburgh.

Web page: https://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/Law/People/Professors/Siems