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Věra Jourová is currently Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency and deals with democracy, rule of law, media pluralism and fight against disinformation. From 2014 to 2019, she served as EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality.
In 2014, before arriving to the European Commission, Ms Jourová held the position of Minister for Regional Development in the Czech Republic. Previous to this, from 2006 to 2013, she worked in her own company as an international consultant on European Union funding, and was also involved in consultancy activities in the Western Balkans relating to the European Union Accession.
She holds a Degree in Law (Mgr.) and a Master's degree (Mgr.) in the Theory of Culture from the Charles University, Prague

DG for Communications Networks, Content and Technology.

He has been the Director for Media Policy at the European Commission since 2016. The Directorate is in charge of Copyright law; Broadcasting law; the MEDIA programme, which provides financial support to the European audiovisual industry and the fight against online disinformation. We elaborated and are now implementing the European strategy on countering fake news and disinformation.

Before then he was in charge of the Directorate responsible for the elaboration of the European Data Strategy. In former positions at the European Commission, he supervised and directed the elaboration of the European Cybersecurity Strategy and a European law on network and information security.

He worked many years in the Antitrust and Consumer Protection departments of the European Commission. As a result he has acquired extensive proven experience in handling complex merger, State aid cases and knowledge of consumer law.

Before joining the Commission he was an associate in an international law firm in Milan for four years (1989/1992), where he dealt mainly with commercial law and competition law.

He is the author of several publications mainly in English law magazines. He teaches media law to master students at the Bocconi University in Milan and give lectures and presentations on European law at several European universities.

Alex Agius Saliba (born 31 January 1988) is a Maltese politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019 on behalf of the Labour Party.

Agius Saliba was a journalist for 5 years before he graduated as a lawyer. Since then, he worked as a legal advisor to a number of Ministers, including Ministers Helena Dalli (Malta's European Commissioner) and Ian Borg, and Parliamentary Secretary Stefan Buontempo. He was appointed as Head of the European Union Secretariat in 2017 but stepped down to contest elections in 2018.

Agius Saliba, Vice President of the Socialists and Democrats at the European Parliament, was also appointed as rapporteur of the Digital Services Act and Common Charger (RED) by the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee and on the Right to Disconnect by the Employment Committee at the European Parliament. He was also appointed as the rapporteur on the protection of Persons with Disabilities by the Committee on Petitions.

Liz Corbin est directrice adjointe du département Médias et cheffe des Actualités à l’Union Européenne de Radio-Télévision (UER). À ce titre, elle supervise les Échanges Eurovision d’actualités et de sujets sportifs, l’Eurovision Social Newswire, les Actualités Radio et l’équipe chargée des services de diffusion sur le site des Événements d’actualité.

Avant de prendre ses fonctions à l’UER, en janvier 2020, Mme Corbin a travaillé pendant 18 ans à la BBC, en dernier lieu comme responsable des Actualités pour la chaîne internationale BBC Word News. Elle avait travaillé auparavant au BBC Reality Check, le service de vérification des faits du média britannique dont elle a développé les effectifs, ainsi qu’au bureau de la BBC à Singapour durant 4 ans.