Judith Goetz

Judith Goetz is a literature and political scientist and lecturer at various universities. She is focussing on women*/ gender, right-wing extremism and anti-feminism.

Elisabeth Grabner-Niel

Elisabeth Grabner-Niel, Mag.a phil. (equivalent to M.A.), earned her degree in languages (French, English) at the University of Innsbruck and is a graduate of the Foundational Studies Programme in Feminism at the Rosa Mayreder College in Vienna. She was active in the feminist field for decades, both professionally and on a voluntary basis. Among other […]

Gustav Gressel

Dr. Gustav Gressel is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the National Defence Academy of the Austrian Armed Forces. From 2014 to 2024, he served as a Senior Policy Fellow in the Wider Europe Programme at the ECFR Berlin Office, focusing primarily on the Russian-Ukrainian war. In 2024, he was a visiting fellow at the European […]

Alex Gröblacher

Alex Gröblacher is a journalist born in Bucharest. He is working for the German service of Radio Romania International and had also been a correspondent. Besides, he is working for TheBizz and the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Rumänien.

Inge Günther

Inge Guenther, worked more than 20 years as Jerusalem correspondent for German daily newspapers, mainly Frankfurter Rundschau  and  Berliner Zeitung.  She got several prices in Germany for her reporting about Israel and Palestine, like the prize of the Deutsche Initiative für den Nahen Osten (DINO) in 2017. Since 2018 she is working as freelancer in Berlin, but still has a “second […]

Susanne Gurschler

Susanne Gurschler Mag. Phil (equivalent to M.A.) studied a subject combination in German Studies at the University of Innsbruck. Since 1998, she has been working as a freelance journalist,  non-fiction author (areas of focus: Art, culture, architecture, regional and cultural history), and poet. She is based in Innsbruck, writes reports, portraits and articles for magazines, annuals, […]

Deniss Hanovs

Dr. Deniss Hanovs, a cultural scientist and professor at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga was born in Riga in 1977. He earned his PhD with his research on middle-class press and nation in the Baltic provinces in the 19th century. As a researcher he developed an interest for the culture of remembrance in the post-colonial societies […]

Sven Hansen

Sven Hansen is senior editor Asia-desk of the Berlin based daily taz since 1997 and a regular contributor to the Vienna based developmental magazine Südwind since 1995. For Le Monde diplomatique Germany he published the editions on Afghanistan, China, India and Southeast Asia. During his studies of political science he had volunteered in setting up a developmental […]

Luke Harding

Luke Harding is an award-winning foreign correspondent with the Guardian. He was based in Berlin 2003-2006 and was the Guardian’s Moscow bureau chief from 2007-2011. The Kremlin expelled him from Russia in the first case of its kind since the Cold War and in summer 2022 put him on an official blacklist. He is the author […]

Shoura Hashemi

Shoura Hashemi works for the diplomatic service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna. She was born in 1982 in Mashhad, Iran, and spent the first years of her life in hiding with her politically active parents. The family fled to Austria in 1987 and was granted political asylum. Since September 2022, Shoura Hashemi […]

Michael Haupt

Michael Haupt studied Educational Science and is chief executive of the initiative for minorities in Tyrol. Since 2016, he has intensively explored Yenish history and present. In collaboration with Bernhard Schneider, he established the Yenish Archive; and since June 2024, he has been conducting scientific research as part of the project “‘Ich hab das nicht akzeptiert!‘ Jenische […]

Monika Hauser

Monika Hauser is the founder and Executive Board Member of the women’s rights organisation medica mondiale, a feminist, non-governmental organisation based in Germany. Since its establishment in 1993, medica mondiale has been pursuing the task of confronting sexualised violence in war at all levels. Monika Hauser has been honored many times, including the Right Livelihood Award in 2008.

Axel Hein

Axel Hein studied marine biology at the University of Salzburg focusing on marine mammals. After several seaside stays abroad, where he worked as a scientific diver responsible for the replenishment and quarantine periods of a public aquarium, he returned back to his home turf. Since 2009, he has been working for the marine programme of WWF Austria and […]

Ellen Heinrichs

As founder and CEO of Bonn Institute, Ellen Heinrichs advocates for a form of journalism that places information interests of people at the core and creates added value for democratic societies. To do this, the charitable Bonn Institute collaborates with editorial teams and media representatives in order to pave the way to a solution-oriented form of journalism that opens […]

Lucia Heisterkamp

Lucia Heisterkamp has been hosting SPIEGEL’s podcast “Inside Austria” since November 2021, together with colleagues from the STANDARD. She also works as a freelance writer for print, radio and TV for various German media such as rbb, Deutschlandfunk and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Her core topics are – besides Austrian domestic politics – flight and migration. She […]

Lisa Hepner

Lisa Hepner directed the feature documentary, The Human Trial, that followed a breakthrough clinical trial that might be the functional cure for type 1 diabetes. She is no stranger to non-fiction filmmaking. For the last 25 years, Lisa has produced a variety of films and programs for Sony Pictures Classics, HBO, A&E, PBS, Lifetime, Discovery, MTV, TLC, […]

Irina Herasimovich

Iryna Herasimovich is a translator and essayist from Belarus. She was born in Minsk in 1978 and has been a freelance translator since 2009. She has translated works by Lukas Bärfuss, Georg Büchner, Monika Rinck, Nora Gomringer, Mehdi Moradpour, Jonas Lüscher, Michael Köhlmeier, Franz Hohler and Franz Kafka into Belarusian. She has already led the […]

Alexander Herbig

Following his graduation and doctorate in Bioinformatics and his first lectureship at the University of Tübingen, Alexander Herbig has been head of the research group Computational Pathogenomics, which is part of the Department of Archaeogenetics at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.The research group mainly focusses on exploring the evolution of different human pathogens, e.g. the plague, by […]

Manuel Herz

Manuel Herz is an architect based in Basel with a keen interest in architecture and areas of migration. For his projects, he has received numerous international awards. His work has been exhibited worldwide and partly added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Julian Hessenthaler

Julian Hessenthaler, born in 1980, is a former security consultant. In 2017, he filmed the then FPÖ leader Heinz Christian Strache fantasising about power in Ibiza. The publication of this video two years later triggered corruption investigations that also ended Sebastian Kurz’s political career and continue to this day.

Martin Hogger

Martin Hogger grew up in Berchtesgadener Land, within sight of the Austrian border. After graduating from high school, then the obligatory stay in Vienna to study musicology and drop out. After that: Traineeship at the Passauer Neue Presse and a media and communications degree. Money for this came from writing jokes for BurgerKing and working […]

Sabine Hofer

Sabine Hofer studied medicine in Innsbruck and completed her specialist training in paediatrics and paediatric endocrinology and diabetology. During her one-year research stay at Westmead Children’s Hospital in Sydney, she came closer to her post-doctoral thesis on childhood diabetes. In 2017, the internationally well-connected diabetologist was congress president for the world’s largest paediatric diabetes meeting, […]

Karl Hoffmann

Karl Hoffmann is a journalist who lives in Palermo. Hoffmann started as a reporter in a small Franconian town, then was an editor, for a study visit to Paris, and finally a local reporter for five years at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich. From 1988 he was a freelance correspondent for the ARD radio station in […]

Nina Horaczek

Nina Horaczek, born in 1977, is a political scientist, journalist, book author and currently chief reporter for the Viennese weekly Falter. She has been working for many years on the topics of the New Right in Austria and Europe, the welfare state, migration, asylum and women’s rights. She is co-founder of the transnational research network […]

Olesia Horiainova

Olesia Horiainova is a co-founder of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, a think-tank based in Kyiv, Ukraine, a strategic communications expert, communications Advisor to the Command of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (2022). With the USCC team for 10 years: studies Russian hybrid warfare in Ukraine, in particular, she […]

Michael Hornsby

Michael Hornsby is a co-founder of Oblique Collective, a production agency producing documentary-style films to support positive change in the fields of climate, human rights and democracy. He has over a decade of experience as a writer, public relations consultant and strategic communications specialist. In addition to his work with Oblique Collective, Michael helps run the […]

Siruan H. Hossein

Siruan H. Hossein is a Syrian-Kurdish journalist and media advocate dedicated to local journalism and media diversity. He is based in Germany. As the founder and General Manager of Radio ARTA, a Syrian independent radio station, he has revolutionized community-based journalism in Syria by providing alternative and multilingual platforms in Kurdish, Arabic, Syriac, and Armenian. His work […]

Frauke Huber und Uwe H. Martin

Frauke Huber and Uwe H. Martin have been documenting social and ecological consequences of global agriculture since 2007. Their project named LandRush employs traditional journalistic publications, linear web documentations, interactive apps, spatial installations using multi-channel videos, conferences, and performances to showcase their research in journalistic, artistic and academic context on a global scale. In addition to that,  they established the development […]

Isabella Huser

Isabella Huser, author, based in Zurich and Berlin. Her most recent publication is “Zigeuner” (Gypsies), a family saga that spans over two centuries and is based on ancestral research on her own father’s family and the persecution of the Yenish in Switzerland in the 19th and 20th century (published by Bilgerverlag, 2nd edition 2024). Huser studied Translation in […]

Daniela Ingruber

Daniela Ingruber works as a Democracy and War researcher at the  Institute for Strategic Analysis  in Vienna. Before that she was employed at the University for Continuing Education Krems. From 2012 until 2016, she was head of the Department of Media & Conflict at the UN-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. After completing missions in areas […]

Toni Innauer

“Mister Ski Jumping” – Toni Innauer (born 1958 in Vorarlberg) rightly bears this title. His time as an athlete, coach and sports director at the Austrian Ski Association made him an international icon: outstanding successes – but also dramatic setbacks – have accompanied him over the years. During his 17-year tenure as sports director, Innauer […]

Lenz Jacobsen

Lenz Jacobsen is a journalist and has been an editor at ZEIT ONLINE since 2012. He studied economics, politics and sociology in Cologne and Istanbul. From 2017 to 2019, he was head of the politics, economy and society department there. Since then, he has reported mainly on issues concerning the state of democracy. Jacobsen has […]

Christian Jakob

Christian Jakob is working as a reporter for the Berlin newspaper taz. In 2015, he got nominated for the journalism award “Der lange Atem”. In 2017, he won the award “Otto-Brenner-Preis”.

Ivona Jelčić

Ivona Jelčić (born in 1975) is a freelance journalist, author and host. She writes for Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard, street paper 20er and other media outlets. Doing so, she focusses on art, culture, and socio-political topics as well as columns on the culture of building and catalogue articles. She was Head of the Culture Department of Austrian […]

Fritz Jergitsch

Fritz Jergitsch is an author and satirist. He is the founder of the satiric magazine Die Tagespresse. In 2015, the project was honoured with the Austrian cabaret award (Österreichischer Kabarettpreis).

Barbara Junge

Barbara Junge is a taz chief editor. In 2001, she was working as an US correspondent for the Tagesspiegel in Washington, where she covered the presidency of Barack Obama and the rise of Donald Trump.

Grażyna Jurewicz

Grażyna Jurewicz is historian of ideas, author and systemic coach. Her research interests revolve around the anthropology of the Enlightenment, Jewish philosophy, as well as theoretical and practical aspects of life historical storytelling. She has been employed at several national and international research and teaching institutions, with her most current position being junior professor for Jewish […]

Minitta & Melanie Kandlbauer

Kandlbauer Minitta & Melanie: The two sisters were born in 1990 and 1995 and work as anti-racism coaches. Together they have travelled more than 40 countries. They are the editors behind the book “War das jetzt rassistisch?” (Was That Racist?) (Leykam 2022). They will join Journalismusfest 2025 with their current book “Gute Nachrichten aus aller Welt – […]

Steffen Kanduth

Steffen Kanduth is the Tyrolean correspondent of the daily newspaper Der Standard. He has a keen interest in mobility and covers topics of the regions Tyrol and Vorarlberg.

Marc Kappeler

Marc Kappeler is founder of the internationally renowned Zurich-based graphic design studio Moiré, which is also responsible for the Bern-based magazine Reportagen. Following his training as a graphic designer in an advertising agency in Bern, Kappeler moved to Zurich in order to pursue his B.A. studies. In 2000, he founded the graphic design studio Moiré with Markus […]

Valery Karbalevich

Valery Karbalevich from Belarus is a political scientist. Since 1997 Karbalevich has been working as a political observer for the newspaper “Svobodnye Novosti” and since 1999 also for RFE/RL (Belarusian service). He is the author of several 1000 articles, working papers and research papers. His biography of Aleksandr Lukashenka, which is not available in Belarus, […]

Georg Kaser

Georg Kaser is a retired professor for Climate and Cryospheric Research at the University of Innsbruck. He is an expert in tropical glaciology and has served as Lead Author and as Review Editor in 3 consecutive IPCC Assessement cycles since 2004. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences between 2015 and 2021 and […]

Hasnain Kazim

Hasnain Kazim was born in 1974 in Oldenburg and is the son of Indian-Pakistan immigrants. He grew up in Hollern-Twielenfleth in the area of Altes Land, just outside Hamburg, and in Karachi in Pakistan, studied political science and started his career as a naval officer.   He learned the journalistic ropes in the German federal State Swabia […]

Heidy Kessler

Heidy Kessler is editor-in-chief of Rai Südtirol. Kessler, born in 1960, grew up in Dorf Tirol near Meran, studied economic and social history in Vienna and scienze politiche in Naples. She gained her first journalistic experience from 1982 at ORF in Vienna, Der Standard and Falter. She has worked at Rai Sender Bozen, now Rai […]

Matthias C. Kettemann

Matthias C. Kettemann is Professor of Innovation, Theory and Philosophy of Law and head of the Department for Theory and Future of Law at the University of Innsbruck.  He leads the University’s Quantum Ethics and Digital Diversity Law Labs. He leads research groups and programs at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, the […]

Jason Kirkpatrick

Jason Kirkpatrick is the Senior Communications Manager of RazomWeStand.org. He’s also the former Vice Mayor of Arcata, California, the “Greenest City in the USA”. He specializes in Political Strategy and Communications especially in USA and Europe, and has worked on climate issues for over 30 years.

Lucie Kirstein

Lucie Kirstein is a traffic scientist and policy adviser with main focus on regulation, competition and energy. Since October, she has been the head of the network Mobilität, Logistik, Luft- und Raumfahrt of Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering.

Stefan Klausner

Stefan Klausner (born in 1985) studied Architecture in Innsbruck and Montpellier; and as part of his master’s thesis he curated the estate of Innsbruck architect Norbert Fritz (1935-2006) in the archive for construction, art and history at the University of Innsbruck. After graduating, for two years, he worked as a project lead in a Munich-based […]

Viktoria Klimpfinger

Viktoria Klimpfinger is a journalist who lives and works in Vienna, but feels at home wherever there are good stories. She studied acting, German and philosophy in Vienna and is editor-in-chief of the inspiration platform 1000things. As a freelance journalist, she has published articles on ze.tt, jetzt.de, at VICE and in the Wiener Zeitung. She […]

Veronika Knapp

Veronika Knapp is planning and organising education projects and events in the library Stadtbibliothek Innsbruck. For 17 years, she had been working for the Austrian NGO Südwind – Verein für globale Gerechtigkeit.

Gerald Knaus

Gerald Knaus is an Austrian social scientist and Chairperson of the European Stability Initiative (ESI), which is based in Berlin, Brussels and Vienna. He has worked for a number of NGOs and international organisations.

Maribel Königer

Maribel Königer is Director of Communications, Journalism, and Media at ERSTE Foundation in Vienna and is responsible for programmes for facilitating investigative journalism and free media in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Since September 2023 she has held the position of representative of ERSTE Foundation on the Supervisory Board of PLURALIS. After graduating in Arts and History in […]

Johannes Kostenzer 

Johannes Kostenzer studied biology at the University of Innsbruck, founded an office for biological research. He worked in France and later as an expert for the province of Tyrol, completed training in public relations and has been an environmental ombudsman for the province of Tyrol since 2008. He is Member of the IUCN CEC (International Union for Conservation […]

Matthias Krapf

Matthias Krapf has been editor-in-chief of the Tiroler Tageszeitung since 2023. Born in Innsbruck in 1979, he had previously held various journalistic and publishing positions at Moser Holding, whose flagship publication is the Tiroler Tageszeitung, since 2006.

Daniela Kraus

Daniela Kraus is the general secretary of the Austrian Presseclub Concordia. She was both founder and head of the educational institution fjum_forum journalismus und medien, the managing director and founding shareholder of the Medienhaus Wien. She is a policy fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge.

Peter Kreysler

Peter Kreysler lives in Berlin and does investigative research for radio and television documentaries that have won several awards. For years he has been dealing with the issue of raw material dependency, as in the WDR-DLF radio feature “Rohstoff Roulette”.For the super election year 2021, the ARD radio feature “Virtuelle Propaganda – Doku über digitale […]

Katharina Kropshofer 

Katharina Kropshofer (*1993) is a reporter at Vienna based weekly newspaper Falter where she mainly writes for the climate and environmental beat. Before that she was a freelance producing radio features, podcasts for BBC, Seeker, Ö1; and writing for print publications such as Der Standard.

Teseo La Marca 

Teseo La Marca grew up in the rustic idyll of a South Tyrolean mountain village. It is these conditions that might have sparked his strive to explore the “big” world. However, his investigative itineraries mostly led him to small mountain villages in Southern and Eastern Europe or in the Middle East. His interviews and reports were […]

Lukas Ladner

Lukas Ladner was born in Innsbruck in 1991 and is part of the editorial team of the UND magazine. He studied film and television directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf and comparative literature at the University of Innsbruck. He has been working as a filmmaker and media artist for over ten years. He […]

Ulrich Ladurner

Ulrich Ladurner works as a foreign correspondent for the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and is the head of the Europabüro in Brussels of the ZEIT. He carried out investigations in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iran, Irak and other crisis zones.

Nina Lamparski

Nina Lamparski heads the award-winning digital research team in the Africa section for the international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). Since 2020, she has been supervising over a dozen local journalists who check fake news on the internet on location across the continent. Having grown up in Luxembourg, Nina was drawn to travelling at an […]

Kilian Land

Kilian Land, was born in 1990 in Halle/Saale, and first entered the world of theatre in the youth club of the Theatre of Magdeburg. After his A-levels, he spent one year in Kenya where he completed his civil service at an elementary school. In 2011 he started his training programme at the acting school Hochschule für […]

Lectrr

Lectrr (Steven Degryse) is a Belgian cartoonist and cartoonist rights activist. On a daily basis his work is published in De Standaard, but he also works with NRC (the Netherlands), and his work is often found in Le Monde, Internazionale and sometimes even Le Temps. Lectrr is an avid activist for cartoonist rights and is a member […]

Joachim Leitner

Joachim Leitner, born 1984 in Sterzing/South Tyrol, trained graphic designer, studied comparative literature, has been culture editor of the Tiroler Tageszeitung in Innsbruck since 2012. Occasional publications in “Literatur und Kritik” and “Quart – Heft für Kultur Tirol”. Member of the jury of the ORF Best List and the Austrian Book Prize (2023).

Sam Leon

Sam Leon is a data journalist with experience in both investigations and campaigning. He founded Data Desk at the end of 2022 — a consultancy that provides analytical and research services for groups working on the climate crisis. Before that he worked for the environmental NGO, Global Witness, where he built their digital investigations team. He studied Philosophy at Cambridge University and […]

Andrei Liankevich

Andrei Liankevich, born 1981, is a Belarusian photographer, lecturer for a course on Photojournalism at the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania) and holds a position as managing director for the Month of Photography in Minsk (Belarus) which he has initiated in 2014. The annual photo festival unites 20 cultural institutions and 25 exhibitions.  Liankevich has presented his photographic […]

Stefano Liberti

Stefano Liberti is an Italian journalist and writer, an expert on issues including agriculture and food supply chains. Liberti writes for Internazionale, L’Essenziale, La Repubblica, Le Monde diplomatique, Al Jazeera English, El pais semanal. In 2009, he received the Indro Montanelli literary prize for five years of research on the refugee routes south of Lampedusa […]

Silvia Lieb

Silvia Lieb, born in 1970, is chairwoman of Moser Holding AG, one of the leading media outlets in Austria (comprises for example daily newspaper Tiroler Tageszeitung, Life Radio Tirol, group of regional media Regionalmedien Austria, group of regional lifestyle magazines Bundesländerinnen). After earning her degree in Economics at the University of Innsbruck, she began her media […]

Christine Liehr 

Christine Liehr is involved with organising and designing stage performances for live journalism. Pursuing study programmes in Economics and Journalism, she made her way to America and England. She subsequently worked at a Social Enterprise in Cambodia for three years, before being engaged in the area of media development work for ten years. She had […]

Gabriel Lipuš

Gabriel Lipuš from Eisenkappel-Vellach has been chief executive of the bilingual Slovenian-German radio station Freier Radio AGORA 105 I 5 in Klagenfurt-Celovec. Lipuš is a Carinthian Slovene. Radio Agora first went live on air in 1998. Since 1998, Gabriel Lipuš has been chairperson and artistic director of the musical theatre GABRIEL. In this role, he has led and […]

Marina Litvinenko

Marina Litvinenko is a public speaker and a campaigner for justice. Following the murder of her husband, Alexander Litvinenko, in November 2006, Marina began a decade long fight to get at the truth behind his assassination which resulted in the publication of a comprehensive public inquiry report in January 2016. Through this tragedy she found her […]

Juliane Löffler 

Juliane Löffler was born in 1986 in Frankfurt am Main. She studied Cultural Studies, Spanish Philology and German as a Foreign Language at the University of Potsdam and Design Thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute. After her studies, she worked for German cross-regional weeklyder Freitag and worked as senior reporter for BuzzFeed News (later Ippen Investigativ). Since March 2022, Löffler has been an editor […]

Ruben Loendersloot

Ruben Loendersloot has years of experience bringing people and organisations together in the field of mobility “to get things moving”. He is educated as a traffic and mobility planner and has specialised in cycle policymaking and implementation, always ready to build bridges (and bike lanes!) between various stakeholders. He is co-creator and initiator of various […]

Hanno Loewy

Hanno Loewy, Dr phil, born 1961 in Frankfurt am Main, literature and film scholar, exhibition organiser and publicist. From 1995 to 2000 founding director of the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main, since 2004 director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems in Austria. Since 2001, he has also been a lecturer at the University of […]

Karin Lohr

Karin Lohr has held the position of chief executive for Munich street magazine Straßenzeitung BISS – Bürger in sozialen Schwierigkeiten e.V. (Association Street Magazine BISS—Citizens in Social Distress) for 11 years now. BISS is both a magazine project and a social enterprise that has been advocating for capacity-building measures for people in difficult social circumstances since 1993.  Before, she […]

Georg Löwisch

Georg Löwisch is the chief editor of Christ & Welt, which belongs to the publishing group ZEIT. He carried out investigations into sexual violence and covers-up in the Catholic Church.

Laurin Lorenz

Laurin Lorenz (born in 1992 in Innsbruck) studied International Development in Vienna and Political Theory in York. He is a founding member of the news team of Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard and has held the position of Deputy Editor since 2022. In this role, he is (co-)responsible for quick news and successful live formats like the ticker on […]

Steen Lorenzen

For more than 25 years, Steen Lorenzen has been covering stories as a music critic, host and reporter for radioeins (rbb) in Berlin. He developed formats like Weekender (festivals, concerts, pop culture), studioeins (live music performances in front of an audience), and EleKtricity(special music format dedicated to electronic music). Most recently, he has been the editorial manager of podcasts for […]

Gundula Ludwig

Gundula Ludwig is a political scientist, professor of gender studies and director of the research platform Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck at the University of Innsbruck. Ludwig’s work focuses on theories of society, state, power and democracy from a queer-feminist perspective, body and biopolitics and violence and gender. Ludwig was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of […]

Sabine Ludwig

Sabine Ludwig is professor for Diversity in Medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria. Before that, she held a professorship for Public Health, Rehabilitation and Transdisciplinary Healthcare Provision in the Health System at the Catholic University of Mainz as well as a deputy professorship at the University for Healthcare in Bochum, Germany. She used to work for […]

Beatrice Lugger

Beatrice Lugger is Managing Director of NaWik, the National Institute for Science Communication gGmbH. She is a science journalist, social media expert and chemist. She has worked for almost two decades for numerous German print and online media, including Politische Ökologie, SZ, FOCUS and WIRED. She set up the platform for blogging researchers ScienceBlogs.de. She […]

Helen Lückge 

As freelance consultant, Helen Lückge supports strategic processes and concrete implementation projects in the areas of climate, environmental and transport policy. Finding solutions to cross-cutting challenges and how to deal with intersectoral interfaces are a special interest in her work – because many innovative forces lie at the friction points between sectors and topics. Accordingly, […]

Florian Madl

Florian Madl (born 1974), is a journalist at the Tiroler Tageszeitung. Madl is the father of 4 children. He studied sports science and German language and literature in Innsbruck and has worked at the Tiroler Tageszeitung since 1994, since 2007 as head of the sports department. Madl is a part-time gymnastics teacher at the Akadem. […]

Anastasia Magazowa 

Born in 1989 in the Crimea (Ukraine). Studied Ukrainian philology and journalism in Simferopol (Ukraine). Since 2013 author for the taz. From 2015 to 2018, she was a correspondent for Deutsche Welle (DW). Since 2020, she has been studying political science at the Institute for Eastern European Studies at the FU Berlin.  As a journalist, she is particularly […]

Stefan Mahlke

Stefan Mahlke has worked for Le Monde diplomatique Deutsche Ausgabe, Berlin, since 2006, among other things as a proofreader and editor; since 2019 he has been co-editor of the Atlas of Globalisation.

Helena Lea Manhartsberger

Photographer and video journalist Helena Lea Manhartsberger operates on a global scale; but is based in Vienna. Before pursuing her study programme in Photo Journalism in Hannover and Aarhus, she studied International Development in Vienna and Photography in Yogyakarta.  In her work, she predominantly delves into topics like sexuality, identity, migration, armed conflicts and social movements. Intensive encounters […]

Ivana Marjanović

Ivana Marjanović is a curator and author. Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia; lived in Vienna from 2006 to 2018. Since 2019, she has been the artistic and managing director of KUNSTRAUM INNSBRUCK and part of the editorial team of the magazine “Migrazine” – online magazine by migrant women for everyone.  She graduated in Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy, University […]

Jochen Markett

Jochen Markett is the organizer and moderator of the Reporter Slams. This entertaining stage competition started in Berlin in 2016, and the show is now touring throughout Germany and abroad. The worldwide trend behind it is called “live journalism” – the combination of journalism and culture. The direct contact between the live audience and journalists makes […]

Alexander Markin

Alexander Markin was born in Moscow in 1974, where he studied literature and linguistics. He then appeared as a writer, translator (of Thomas Bernhard, Alfred Döblin, Theodor Lessing) and literary critic. He has lived in Zurich since 2004 and is currently a lecturer at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts. […]

Georg Mascolo

Georg Mascolo is a bestselling author and Journalist who worked for nearly 25 years for the Spiegel Group. From 2008 until 2013 he was Editor-in-Chief of Spiegel-Magazine. From 2014 until 2022 he was the head of the Joint Investigative Group which focuses on large-scale investigations as, for example, the so called Panama Papers. 

Fyras Mawazini

Fyras Mawazini has been the Director of International Development for SOS MEDITERRANEE since the summer of 2023. Although he helped found SOS MEDITERRANEE in 2015 and has volunteered since, he recently joined the executive team to lead its International Development efforts. In his current role, he focuses on strengthening and expanding SOS MEDITERRANEE’s position as a prominent […]

Wolfgang Mayr

Wolfgang Mayr was born in Bolzano and is a journalist from South Tyrol. He used to be editor in chief of the regional service of the Italian public-service broadcaster Rai Südtirol. From 1982 until 1984, Mayr attended the German training institution for journalists Deutsche Journalistenschule in Munich. For four years, he worked as an editor for South Tyrolean news magazine ff . […]

Wolfger Mayrhofer

Wolfger Mayrhofer is Deputy Secretary General of the Alpine Convention. He earned his PhD in Law, studied Philosophy as well as Slavonic studies—in Vienna, Innsbruck and Moscow—and completed a post-graduate programme on European integration for public administration. For almost 30 years now, Wolfger Mayrhofer has been involved with cross-border collaboration in the Alpine area and has […]

Dajana Mehadžić

Dajana Mehadžić has been working as a multilingual counsellor at the Centre for Migrants in Tyrol (ZeMiT) since 2018. The focus of her work is always on entering into dialogue with other people. Among other things, she led the Dominoeffekt project in 2023, which aimed to connect actors and organisations from the art, culture and […]

Edith Meinhart

Edith Meinhart is a freelance journalist and author. From 1998 to 2023, she was an editor at the Austrian news magazine profil. Here she focussed on issues of migration, social inequality and socio-political and human rights topics. Born in Upper Austria, she has received several awards for her social reportage, including the Claus Gatterer Prize […]

Gideon Mendel

Born in Johannesburg in 1959, Gideon Mendel began his career as a news and ‘struggle’ photographer documenting the final years of apartheid. In 1991 he moved to London, and continued to respond to global concerns, especially HIV/ AIDS.  Since 2007, using stills and video, Mendel has been working on Drowning World; an art and advocacy project […]

Marguerite Meyer

Marguerite Meyer is a journalist, author and poetry slammer from Zurich. As a journalist, her focus is on politics and society. Her journalistic career began at the news agencies AWP and APA as well as in the newsroom of the Swiss public service media company SRF. After serving as editor-in-chief of the youth TV channel […]

Marzio G. Mian

Marzio G. Mian, 58, is an award-winning correspondent and author. He has been deputy editor-in-chief for the weekly magazine of Corriere della Sera for seven years and he’s now special contributor for Corriere della Sera, il Giornale, GQ Italy, RAI TV, SKY Italy, RSI Swiss Public Radio, Reportagen magazine.  Mian founded The Arctic Times Project, a non-profit journalism association that focuses on the consequences of climate change […]

Adam Michnik

The Polish essayist and publicist Adam Michnik, born in 1946, who has received several awards for journalistic merits, has been editor-in-chief of the major liberal Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza for many years, which he co-founded in 1989. Michnik is one of the most influential intellectuals in Eastern Europe. As a student he was one […]

Adrian Mihălțianu

Adrian Mihălțianu is a journalist with more than 19 years of experience, both in editorial and management teams for medium-sized and large media companies. As publisher of PressOne, he brought the publication from a one-donor model to a sustainable, complex mix based on subscriptions and strategic partners supporting its investigations and storytelling. PressOne is now reaching more than 1.4 million people every year on its website, and more than 6 million people every year on its social media […]