A senior reporter for ARTE news programmes, Vladimir Vasak has produced numerous documentaries around the world. In 2012 he was awarded three prizes for two web documentaries produced for ARTE and France TV at the La Rochelle Web Festival. In 2009 he was also awarded the Louise Weiss Prize for European Journalism for "Journey around the Black Sea". Vladimir Vasak is also a member of the Board of Directors of Cartooning for Peace with the cartoonist Plantu; the President of the Strasbourg-Europe Press Club, which organises and leads debates; a member of the Convention for the Sixth Republic with Mr Arnaud Montebourg and involved in several projects relating to Robert Doisneau.

Terry Anderson is the Executive Director at CARTOONISTS RIGHTS, the international human rights NGO specifically for cartoonists under threat. In 2019 the organisation was made an Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Fellow in recognition of their campaigning. A cartoonist himself, Anderson was a founding member of the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio and a past president of the Scottish Artists Union. In 2022 he received the Prix Gérard Vandenbroucke at the Salon International de la Caricature, du Dessin de Presse et d’Humour of St Just Le Martel. He is a member of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation (UK) as well as France-Cartoons and Cartoon Movement (Netherlands).

It is thanks to the press cartooning competition launched in the summer of 2013 by the daily newspaper l’Opinion that Kak joined their editorial staff. Since then, he has been illustrating the newspaper’s front page every day and has been sticking his spikes in the four cardinal points of French and international politics. Kak also draws for Franc Tireur et Le Film français.His hobbies: comics, cartoons, and cinema (a sector where he worked for 20 years). He thus takes a malicious pleasure in portraying our rulers as characters from Disney, Pixar, Uderzo, Franquin, Hergé and other drawing geniuses. And he always does it with a lot of application in his line, faithful to a thought gleaned from Nietzsche: “Man’s maturity is to have found the seriousness that we had at play when we were children.“ Kak is president of the Cartooning for Peace.

Jean-Paul Marthoz is a foreign affairs columnist at the Brussels daily Le Soir and author of some 20 books, in particular The Media and Terrorism (UNESCO, 2017). He has been European Press Director at Human Rights Watch and EU correspondent of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He has carried out missions on press freedom in Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Algeria, and taught international journalism at the UCLouvain, Belgium. He sits on the Editorial Board of Index on Censorship magazine, the Advisory Board of the Ethical Journalism Network and is the editorial coordinator of the annual report of the COE’s Journalist Safety Platform.

Rachita Taneja is an Indian political cartoonist and the creator of Sanitary Panels. Sanitary Panels is a feminist webcomic that comments on society, culture, and politics. Through her work, Rachita observes the mood of the country on politics and current affairs, and aims to challenge myths and taboos around menstruation, mental health, and queer rights.