Živilė Kropaitė-Basiulė is an award-winning journalist with over 10 years of experience in radio and TV presenting. Having also worked as a stringer to international news outlets, she has broad expertise when it comes to global processes and events. She has graduated from Vilnius University with a BA in English. She also holds a M.A. in British studies at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Živilė's journalistic and linguistic skills, combined with vast experience in moderating major international events in Lithuania, has turned her into one of the most valued professionals in the industry. Živilė Kropaitė-Basiulė is a host of popular radio news show on the Lithuanian Public Broadcaster LRT.

Tim Davie became Director-General of the BBC on 1 September 2020. 

He is the 17th Director-General of the Corporation and the BBC’s Editor-in-Chief.  He is the editorial, operational and creative leader of the BBC with responsibility for a global workforce running services across television, radio and digital.

After graduating from Cambridge University in 1990, where he read English, Tim worked at Procter & Gamble and then PepsiCo Europe, as Vice President of Marketing and Franchise, before joining the BBC in 2005 as Director of the Marketing, Communications and Audiences division.  He went on to become the BBC’s Director of Audio and Music, with overall responsibility for the BBC’s national radio output, its digital services and performing groups.

In 2013, after a period as acting BBC Director-General, Tim became the Chief Executive of BBC Studios, the BBC’s principal commercial subsidiary, responsible for creating and distributing leading British content globally.  Whilst in the role, he oversaw the merger between the BBC’s production arm and BBC Worldwide, the Corporation’s distribution company, and was responsible for an annual turnover of over £1.4bn.

Tim is a Trustee of the Tate; a former co-chair of the Creative Industries Council; and a former chair of Comic Relief.

He was appointed a CBE in 2018 for services to International Trade.

Birthday; October 31st 1963 in Nykøbing Mors, Denmark.

Party; The Social Democratic Party

Vice-Chairman of the Social Democratic Party since 2012

Spokesman; Spokesman on Defence

Member period

Member of the Folketing for The Social Democratic party
since 2005.

Current committees

Chairman of;

The Transport Committee

Vice-Chairman of;

Cultural Affairs Committee

Member of;

The Danish Delegation to the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2007

The Defence Committee

The Finance Committee

The Foreign Policy Committee

The Greenland Committee

The Standing Orders Committee

Former Minister;

Minister for Food, Fisheries and Equal Opportunities and Minister for Nordic Cooperation, 27. June 2019 – 19. November 2020

Minister for Trade and Development Cooperation, 3. February 2014 – 28. June 2015.

Parliamentary career;

Vice-Chairman of the Cultural Affairs Committee from 2020.

Vice-Chairman of Legal Affairs Committee, 2015-2019

Auditor of public accounts, 26. October 2011-16. April 2013.

Chairman of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party, 2011-2012

Former chairman and vice-chairman on the Danish Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Former Spokesman on Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Nordic Council.

Manuel Puppis is Professor of Media Structures and Governance in the Department of Communication and Media Research DCM, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He currently serves as vice chair of the European Communication Research and Education Association’s Communication Law and Policy Section (ECREA-CLP), the Swiss Federal Media Commission (FMEC) and the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Increasing Resilience of Media (MSI-RES).

Puppis holds a PhD in Communication Science and an M.A. in Communication Science, Political Science and Economic and Social History from the University of Zurich. His research interests include media policy, media regulation and media governance, media systems in a comparative perspective, political communication and organization theory.

During spring term 2018, Puppis was a visiting scholar at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, Steinhardt School, New York University. For fall term 2012 Puppis was appointed as a Visiting Resident Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Before, he was a visiting scholar at the Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research at the University of Hamburg and at the Centre for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Dr Krisztina Rozgonyi is Senior Scientist at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and a senior international media, telecommunication and IP legal and policy expert. She works with international and European organizations (such as the ITU/UN, UNESCO, Council of Europe, European Commission, World Bank InfoDev, OSCE and BBC MA), with national governments, and regulators as an adviser on media freedom, spectrum policy and digital platform governance. Between 2004-2010 she served as the Chairperson (Deputy Chairperson) of the Telecoms Authority in Hungary. Her expertise lies in media and telecommunications policymaking and regulation with extensive experience in legal reform work.

Dr Rozgonyi is also involved with managing a platform at the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna to bridge research with policy agendas. Her recent research and policy work focused on responding to disinformation online addressing human rights aspects for the Venice Commission and policy implications as well. Moreover, she explored more closely the regulatory aspects of online platforms and proposed potential regulatory models accordingly. She has also engaged recently with the OSCE Representative on Media Freedom as an expert on Artificial Intelligence & media pluralism.

Vytautas Juozapaitis has been a member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania since 2012. The deputy chair of the Committee on Education and Science (2018–2020). Since 2020, the chair of the Committee on Culture. He is a member of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats.

He studied solo singing (baritone) at the Lithuanian State Conservatory (currently the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre). Later he became a professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and was an associate professor at Vilnius College.

He was also an opera soloist at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre.  In 1999-2001, he was the director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre.

He is a founder and manager of Vytautas Juozapaitis’ Educational Culture and Art Center.

He was awarded the Cross of Officer of the Order for Merits to Lithuania (2003), the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Art (2004), the Golden Cross of the Stage (2006) and has received other awards.

Meaghan holds degrees in International Affairs, Russian Studies, and Law. She began her career with the US State Department in Belarus and Estonia as a political analyst. Her first experience with the OSCE was in 2002 in Belarus as the Human Dimension Officer after which she spent two years with the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe. Following law school, Meaghan began working in election assistance for the United Nations Mission in Sudan where she was the External Relations Adviser for the 2010 elections and Legal/Political Adviser for the 2011 Referendum.

From 2011-2019, she contributed to election observation missions as Mission Director, Deputy Head of Mission and Legal Analyst with the OSCE and The Carter Center, analysis of election legislation for Democracry Reporting International and lecturing on observation. Meaghan joined the OSCE’s office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights in 2019 as the Deputy Head of the Democratization Department and later served as the Head of the Democratization Department. In June 2021, Meaghan became the Head of ODIHR’s Election Department managing all of the offices work on elections and all ODIHR election observation efforts.

Maria works for the UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) as the Head of International Content Policy, covering media, content and broadcasting issues. She leads on Ofcom’s engagement with other European media regulators, most particularly through EPRA (where is currently a Vice-Chair) as well as international bodies, and represents Ofcom on the full range of media policy questions including media literacy. She oversaw Ofcom’s input into the negotiations on the AVMS Directive and oversees Ofcom's relationship with European and global institutions on questions of media and content policy. She recently served as Chair of the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Media Environment and Reform.

Her regulatory background is in advertising, having spent four years at the Advertising Standards Authority before joining Ofcom’s Broadcasting Standards department. Prior to that, she worked in media analysis, and before that as a radio producer for the BBC World Service. She has a Modern Languages degree from Cambridge University and a Masters degree in Literary Translation.