David Boardman is a Journalist, Professor and Dean in the School of Communication & Media at Temple University of Pennsylvania, USA. President of the “Solutions Journalism Network”, of the “Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press” and of the “Lenfest Institute for Journalism”. Former Director of The Seattle Times, which under his leadership received 4 Pulitzer Prizes and produced 10 Pulitzer finalists.

Cathrine Gyldensted is a pioneer of Constructive Journalism. Danish journalist, news presenter, author, inspired the connection between journalism and the behavioural sciences. In 2015 she took over the first Chair and Head of Department of Constructive Journalism at the University of Windesheim in the Netherlands, which she left in July 2017 to found organisations such as the Open Eyes Institute and the Constructive Journalism Network in Amsterdam, focusing on Constructive Journalism and research on it.

Ulrik Haagerup is the Founder and CEO of the Constructive Institute at Aarhus University in Denmark. He has been a journalism graduate of the Danish School of Journalism since 1986 and in his journalistic education is included a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University and further education at INSEAD, at IMD, at the Stanford Research Institute and at the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. For 10 years he was News Director of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, the Danish public broadcaster. He has also served as an investigative journalist and editor-in-chief for various media and newspapers. He has been awarded the Cavling Prize, the Danish version of the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1990 he was awarded the title of Knight Dannebrog by Queen Margaret II of Denmark.

Karen McIntyre, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. She teaches and researches socially responsible forms of journalism, such as constructive journalism and solutions journalism, and she co-edited a book on the topic. She was the first to introduce the term constructive journalism to the academic literature in her 2015 dissertation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also studies press freedom and journalism practice in East Africa and served as a Fulbright scholar in Rwanda during the 2018-19 academic year. Prior to her academic career, she worked as a journalist.

Roland Schatz is a Journalist (5th generation in his family), Entrepreneur, Consultant, having dedicated the last 30 years of his life to implementing Perception Change by empowering the media and, more generally, to implementing Social Change. He graduated from high school in Frankfurt and studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, continuing his postgraduate studies and obtaining a Master in Philosophy from the University of Bonn. Among other things, he is Founder and CEO of InnoVatio Publishing, Media Tenor International and the United Nations Global Sustainability Index Institute (UNGSII Foundation) and President of the Geneva Agape Foundation. He has been providing strategic advice to heads of global organizations and political figures since 1987. He was former Senior Advisor to Michael Moller, UN Director General in Geneva (2013-2019) and has served as an advisor to prominent German politicians such as Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel during their election campaigns between 1990-2005. He was also a member of the advisory team to Mario Draghi, President of the ECB during the years of the Greek financial crisis. In 2008 he launched, together with Prince Ghazi of Jordan, the Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali Gooma and the Bishop of London, Lord Richard Chartres, the C1 One World Dialogue Foundation to improve Interfaith Dialogue. He delivers specialised seminars on ” Unlearning Intolerance and Cultivating Tolerance” in collaboration with UN Academic Impact, while also teaching courses on “Changing Perceptions”.

Nicolas Demertzis is Professor at the Department of Communication & Media, University of Athens. Graduate of Panteion University with a PhD in Sociology from Lund University in Sweden. He has served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Cyprus University of Technology, where he organized the Department of Communication and Internet Studies and served as Dean of the School of Applied Arts and Communication, Chairman of the Board of the State Scholarships Foundation, Director and Chairman of the Board of the National Center of Social Research, as well as President of the Hellenic Sociological Society and member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Science and Society”. He has authored, edited and co-edited dozens of books, articles and chapters in academic journals and collective volumes and is a frequent contributor to the press. He is also a founding member of the ‘Research Network 11’ of the European Sociological Association on the sociology of emotions.

Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas is a Greek-American living in Washington, DC. Co-founder and CEO of EnCompass LLC, a 250-person consulting organization focused on evaluation, quality improvement, learning, leadership and organizational development, gender and inclusive practice.

She has created and implemented an appreciative model for management and evaluation, is co-author of the first text on this topic (Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Inquiry, Sage Publications, June 2006), and has continued to publish on the importance of incorporating an appreciative approach to management, learning and evaluation. Appreciative evaluation incorporates the systematic study of successful experiences in inquiry and research, and as such, it is well aligned with constructive journalism.

Ms. Catsambas has written on a range of topics involving evaluation, capacity building-based, appreciative management, and gender-inclusive practices. Her book Evaluation Management: How to Commission and Conduct Evaluations that Matter with Dr. Jane Davidson is expected in early 2024 by Sage Publications, and she is under contract for a new book Appreciative Evaluation 2.0 with Positive Psychologist expert Dr. Stewart Donaldson.

She was president of the American Evaluation Association in 2019, and in 2015, received the International EvalPartners Award in recognition of her “leadership, creativity and exceptional contributions to the global evaluation community.” She holds a master’s in public policy from Harvard University.

Theodora A. Maniou is an Assistant Professor in Journalism, Department of Social & Political Sciences, University of Cyprus. She holds a PhD & a BA in Journalism (School of Journalism & Media Studies, Aristotle University, Greece), and an MA in Communication’s Policy Studies (City, University of London, UK). Her area of specialization focuses on journalism practice, broadcast journalism in television and multimedia journalism. Prior to her current appointment she had worked as a journalist for several years and is a regular member of the International Federation of Journalists and the European Federation of Journalists.

Alexandros Nehamas is Professor of Humanities, Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, with many honors for his wide-ranging research and publishing work. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a full member of the Academy of Athens in the chair of “History of Philosophy”.

Fotis Papathanasiou is General Director of the V. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for Visual Arts and Music. He studied at the University of Athens and specialized in Sports Medicine at the University of Paris. He then studied International Relations in Paris, where he received his PhD and taught Cultural Diplomacy and Urban Diplomacy as a visiting professor for ten years. He was Special Assistant to the former French Minister of Culture, Jacques Lang (1985-1989), Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1991-93), Deputy Mayor of Athens (1995-2002) and Executive Secretary of the Association of Mayors of the Capital Cities of South-Eastern Europe (1995-2004), Secretary General (1990-1994) and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Opera (2006-2009). He founded Technopolis and the Maria Callas Museum. In 2016 he was elected President of the Association for the Promotion of Greek Donations “Philotis”. He has been awarded the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Brigadier General of Arts and Letters of the French Republic, as well as that of the Order of Arts and Sciences of Austria. Founder and President of the Hellenic Wagner Society, he has specialized in the work of the leading composer and has translated many of his dramas and essays, while as a radio producer for the Third Programme (of Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) he has presented numerous musicological programmes on Richard Wagner’s work and its philosophical extension. He has authored several books and is a regular contributor of articles.

Athanasios Papandropoulos is a Journalist. He worked for 30 years at the well-known Greek magazine “Economic Tachydromos” and other publications, along with well-known newspapers and specialised magazines. He has been president of the Hellenic Periodical and Electronic Press Union, as well as of the Association of European Journalists, the Institute for Journalistic Studies and Research (ή Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies??) and the Association of Journalists for Europe of Freedoms and Democracy. Honorary President of the European Federation of Journalists, member of the Board of the European Parliament’s Press Association, member of the Senate for the Union of Europe, which honoured him for his articles on federal Europe.

Takis S. Pappas (Ph.D., Yale) is a political scientist, academic, and author known for his original work on populism and liberal democracy. Among his more recent books are Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece (2014), European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession (2016), On the Tightrope: National Crises and Brinkmanship in Greece from Trikoupis to Tsipras (2017), Populism and Liberal Democracy: A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis (2019). He is a regular columnist in major Greek newspaper Kathimerini and shares his life between Brussels and Athens.

† Anastasios Stalikas is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. He is President of the Hellenic Society of Positive Psychology, business consultant, trainer, coach, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. He has taught at many universities in Greece and abroad and has conducted workshops, experiential seminars and lectures in various organizations in Europe, Asia, Australia and America. He holds a degree in Psychology from Concordia University, Montréal. He did Masters in Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada, where he also obtained a PhD in Clinical Psychology. He has authored 10 books, more than 60 book chapters and 200 articles and contributions to the international academic community.