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", the "Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press" and 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, and author inspired the connection between journalism and the behavioral sciences. In 2015 she took over the first Chair and Head of the Department of Constructive Journalism at the University of Windesheim in the Netherlands, which she left in July 2017 to found organizations 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, IMD, the Stanford Research Institute, and the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. For 10 years he was the 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 of multimedia journalism and the director of graduate studies in the Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University. 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.

Nicolas Demertzis is a Professor at the Department of Communication & Media, University of Athens. Graduate of Panteion University with a Ph.D. 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.

Theodora A. Maniou is an Assistant Professor in Journalism, at the 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 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 a 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 the 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 - Economist, with 60 years of journalistic experience in Greece and abroad. He worked for 34 years at the well-known Greek magazine "Economic Tachydromos" and other publications of the Lambrakis Press Group (DOL) and collaborated with major newspapers, specialized magazines, TV and radio stations in Greece, France and Germany. He has served as President of the Hellenic Periodical-Electronic Press Union and the Institute for Journalistic Studies and Research, as well as of the Association of European Journalists and the Association of Journalists for Europe of Freedoms and Democracy. He is currently Honorary International President of the European Federation of Journalists, member of the Board of the Association of European Parliamentarian Journalists, member of the Senate for the Union of Europe, which honoured him for his articles on federal Europe. He has also been awarded 42 European and Greek journalism prizes.

Takis S. Pappas (Ph.DYale) 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 (2015), 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 a major Greek newspaper Kathimerini and shares his life between Brussels and Athens.

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