Konstantina E. Botsiou studied history-archaeology at the University of Athens and received her Ph.D. in modern history at the University of Tübingen. Her academic career include teaching at the University of Athens (1999-2008) and her current post as Associate Professor of modern history and international politics at the University of the Peloponnese, where she also served as Vice-Rector (2012-2015). She teaches history at the Hellenic School of National Defense and has been research fellow at many organizations (e.g. LSE IDEAS). She participated in the Academic Council of the Wilfried-Martens-Centre (2011-2014). She is director of the Historical Archives of Nea Demokratia (ND) and special advisor for foreign policy to ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Boriss Cilevičs is a former computer scientist. Since the late 80s, he led human rights NGOs in Latvia, participated in international projects, published 40 research papers on non-discrimination and equality, minority rights, democracy in plural societies. Since 1998, he has been six times elected member of Latvian parliament. He is Vice-chair of the Committee on Human Rights. As a member of PACE, he prepared 25 reports, chaired Sub-Committee on Rights of Minorities and Committee on Election of ECtHR Judges. Cilevičs stays involved with civil society, regularly participating in NGO projects as a trainer and lecturer.

Augustine Magolowondo is the Africa Regional Representative at the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) based at the Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) in Lilongwe, Malawi. In that capacity, he facilitates networking, knowledge development and knowledge sharing among NIMD political party programme countries in the sub region. His work covers a wide range of topics including but not limited to inter-party dialogue, constitutional reforms, political party strengthening and electoral reforms. Before joining NIMD, he worked as a National Expert for the German Technical Corporation (GIZ) in Malawi in the fields of democracy, decentralization, conflict management and dialogue promotion. He holds a PhD in Political Science, an MA in Development Management and a BA in Public Administration.

He is serving as the Administrative Secretary of the National Youth Parliament of The Gambia, a youth-led organization that promotes civic education. Bakary has actively participated in its voter education campaigns, elections observations, National Assembly sitting observations, and civic engagement hour radio programs. Occasionally, Bakary writes on political and legal issues in the Standard Newspaper as a columnist, and regularly appears on radio talk shows to discuss politics and law. Presently, he anchors a TV program called "The Peoples' Platform", where he interviews politicians, activists, and community leaders with a focus on policies and laws. He also has a new radio program called "The Weekly Politics Show" on Capital FM radio. He was one of the people who organized the first ever Presidential debate in the history of his country.

Sarah Keating joined the Council of Europe’s Education Department in 1994 and is now Head of the Division of Co-operation and Capacity Building. She is responsible for projects to increase the capacity of national education systems to provide quality education, develop competences for a democratic culture, fight discrimination, support integrity and transparency in education and combat extremism and violence in schools. She spent three years (2002-2005) leading the CoE’s education team in Sarajevo and still travels regularly to the region. Ms Keating holds degrees in international studies from Vassar and Johns Hopkins universities. She is the mother of two teenagers and enjoys yoga and hiking.

Maria Pia Napoletano is an Economics and Business Administration student at the University of Naples “Federico II”. Graduated from high school in July 2016, she started to volunteer in local NGOs in 2011, working in particular in the field of cultural heritage valorisation and active citizenship. From the start of 2017, she is participating in Erasmus+ Initiatives. Art enthusiast and globetrotter, her plans are to specialize in Art Management and work across EU.