Professor Deneen is an eminent political theorist at the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana. Previously, he taught at Princeton and Georgetown universities. He has authored many scholarly papers and several books on democracy, such as “Redeeming democracy in America” or “Why liberalism failed”.

Dr. Tina Tchen served as Assistant to President Barack Obama, the Chief of Staff to the First Lady, and Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls. From 2008 to 2011, she was the Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. She is a distinguished lawyer who specialises in litigation and has been involved with the #MeToo movement.

Tamar Newberger is a computer scientist who has held executive positions in companies such AT&T, Novell, and SCO. She is active in promoting STEM education to young women and was on the technology and media advisory team for Obama for America. She was also a diplomatic spouse of the former US ambassador in Prague.

Dr. Janeček is the founder of Institute H21 and the author of the innovative voting system D21. He received his PhD in mathematical finance at Carnegie Mellon University. He established RSJ Algorithmic Trading and now dedicates his time to anti-corruption and pro-democratic activities.

Vladimir Dzuro is a world-renowned criminologist. He worked for Interpol and served as an investigator at International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia for which he received a medal for ‘service to international justice’. He is the author of the bestseller The Investigator and now works as Chief of NY Headquarters of UN Internal Oversight Services.

Prof. Aleskerov is a leading expert on decision theory. He is the head of the Department of Mathematics for Economics and the International Laboratory of Decision Analysis and Choice at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He has published ten books and more than 200 academic papers.

Dr. Hybášková is a Czech and European politician and diplomat who served as the Ambassador of the EU in Namibia from 2015 to 2019 and in Iraq from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that she served as a Member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party. She is also a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.

Dr. Nora Siklodi is a Research Fellow in the Citizenship and Democracy in Education Research Group at NTNU and Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Portsmouth. Her research interests are citizenship, migration studies, and politics. She is specialises in citizens’ attitudes towards participation in national and European politics.

Professor Nurmi has spent his career mainly at the University of Turku, but has also taught at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Minnesota. He has published more than 200 scholarly articles and authored 13 books. He is one of the leading experts on voting systems and social choice theory.

Professor Barile focuses on digital innovation, political communication, and consuming cultures. He has published numerous books, articles and short essays in Italy as well as internationally. At the moment he is investigating the relationships between culture, power and emerging media.

Bele Wollesen is a graduate student of Logic, Computation and Methodology at Carnegie Mellon University. Before that she studied Philosophy and Economics at the University of Bayreuth. She has also worked at the Center for Adaptive Rationality for Human Development. Her research focuses on decision, game and social choice theory.

Lorena Lamin holds a degree in Social and Cultural Communication from the Portuguese Catholic University and a Masters degree from Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III. As part of her PhD, she researches the use of narrative to communicate strategies for social change and for promotion of civic society agency, focusing on digital storytelling and transmedia activism.

Peter Emerson is the founder of the de Borda Institute which aims to promote the use of inclusive voting procedures on contentious questions of social choice. He did so after witnessing conflicts in Northern Ireland and former Yugoslavia. He also authored the book “Majority Voting as a Catalyst to Populism”.