Biographies of Participants Annual Colloquium on Fundamental Rights Media Pluralism and Democracy 26-27 November 2018 Justice and Consumers The biographies were sent by the participants. The European Commission is not responsible for the content. ACHEN Christopher H. Chris Achen holds the Roger Williams Straus Chair of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His primary research interests are public opinion, elections, and the realities of democratic politics. He is the author or co-author of six books, including Democracy for Realists (with Larry Bartels) in 2016, which has received widespread discussion and several awards. He has also published many articles. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and Princeton's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. He was the founding president of the Political Methodology Society, and he received the first career achievement award from The Political Methodology Section of The American Political Science Association in 2007. He has served on the top social science board at the American National Science Foundation, and he was the chair of the national Council for the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) from 2013-2015. He is also the recipient of awards from the University of Michigan for lifetime achievement in training graduate students and from Princeton University for graduate student mentoring. AFANASJEVA Sonja Sonja Afanasjeva is policy officer in the Secretariat of the Young European Federalists (JEF Europe). Working closely with the Executive Board, she carries out advocacy work towards the European institutions and civil society, in Brussels and beyond, in order to further promote the idea of a free, united and democratic Europe. She is currently working on the topic of rule of law and shrinking space for civil society across the EU. Justice and Consumers AIGRO Kristen Kristen holds expertise on youth and political participation in both elections but also in society more broadly. A long time human rights activist and youth leader within civil society she has campaigned for lowering the voting age and youth turnout both in her native Estonia and on European level. The European Youth Forum fights for youth rights and represents tens of millions of young Europeans. ALEMANNO Alberto Alberto Alemanno is an academic, author and politic activist. He is internationally known for his scholarly and public interest work on the democratization of the European Union, the use of law to advance the public interest, in areas such as risk regulation, public health, consumer rights and food policy as well as legal education reform. He has developed the theory of citizen lobbying to rethink representative democracy in the national and transnational space. Alberto Alemanno is Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law at HEC Paris since 2009, and also Global Clinical Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, School of Public Policy and at the College of Europe. Justice and Consumers ALLEN Steven Steven Allen is Co-Executive Director of the Validity Foundation, which is an international non-governmental organisation which uses legal strategies to promote and protect the human rights of persons with mental disabilities worldwide. Mr. Allen leads Validity’s campaigns and advocacy initiatives, representing the organisation before international organisations including the United Nations (where Validity holds special consultative status at ECOSOC), Council of Europe (where Validity holds participatory status) and at the European Union. Mr. Allen has directed and contributed to a number of large-scale international projects. Recent examples include directing a major project on access to justice for children with mental disabilities in ten EU member states (2013-14); supervising the development of a human rights monitoring methodology focused on residential childcare institutions with Europe-wide applicability (2014-16); and serving on the scientific committee of a project on access to justice for persons with intellectual disabilities (2013-16). Mr. Allen holds an LLB (Hons.) from the University of London and is also pursuing postgraduate comparative research on the legal systems which restrict or deny legal agency to vulnerable sections of society. ANAGNOSTOU Dia Dia Anagnostou is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Public Administration, in Panteion University of Social Sciences, and Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation of European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens (from September 2004 until present). She has held research positions at Princeton University (1999-2000), and the European University Institute in Florence (2000-2001 as Jean Monnet Fellow; January-February 2009 as Fernand Braudel Fellow; and 2010-2012 as Marie Curie Research Fellow). Anagnostou is an expert on comparative politics, minorities and migrant integration, as well as on human rights and European governance institutions. She has extensive experience as coordinator or partner in several research projects funded by the European Commission Framework Programs (6th, 7th, and H2020). She is the editor and co- author of three books, and her articles have appeared in several book chapters and journals such as European Journal of International Law, Religion and Politics, Journal of Law and Society, West European Politics, Southeast European Politics, International Journal of Human Rights, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, and European Public Law, among others. Justice and Consumers APPLEBAUM Anne Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post and a prize-winning historian with a particular expertise in the history of communist and post-communist Europe. She is also a Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics, where she runs ARENA, a research project on disinformation and 21st century propaganda. She is the author of several books, including Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine; Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe; and Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Both Gulag and Iron Curtain were nominated for the National Book Award. Anne is a former member of the Washington Post editorial board, a former deputy editor of the Spectator magazine, and a former Warsaw correspondent of The Economist. She has lectured at many universities, including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Oxford, Cambridge, Zurich and Humboldt. She writes regularly for the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs and many other publications. ÅSHEDEN Ann-Marie Journalist, author and book publisher. My journalistic experience is mainly from the biggest daily morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter and a business magazine. My books focus on media, media logic and propaganda. The starting point of my writings today is my caring for the media’s very important role in a democratic society; I have expressed this in several opinion articles lately. Justice and Consumers ASTOLA Ms Since 1 February 2016, Ms Astola is Director-General for Justice and Consumers at the European Commission. The DG deals with civil justice, including contract and company law, criminal justice, fundamental rights, including data protection and free movement, equality and consumer law and policy. Before joining the Commission, Ms Astola was Permanent Secretary of the Finnish Ministry of Justice, with overall responsibility for both international and domestic law matters, including courts and prisons. Prior to that, she headed units responsible for civil law and European law at the Department of Legislation of the Ministry and has also worked for the Finnish Ministry of Finance and the Finnish Foreign Trade Association. BALFOUR Rosa Dr. Rosa Balfour is a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the US (PhD in International Relations and MSc in European Studies London School of Economics, MA in History, Cambridge University). She has researched and published widely on European politics and foreign policy, and on the role of human rights and democracy in international relations. Current work focuses on the nexus between domestic politics and foreign policy, especially between Europe’s democracy and its global role. Rosa is also a member of the Steering Committee of WIIS-Brussels (Women In International Security), an Associate Fellow at LSE Ideas, and a Senior Adviser to the European Policy Centre. In September 2018 she was awarded a non-resident fellowship on Europe’s Futures at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Among her publications are What are think tanks for? Policy research in the age of anti-expertise, published by LSE Ideas in December 2017, http://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/research/updates/think-tanks, Europe’s Trouble- makers. The populist challenge to foreign policy, (http://www.epc.eu/documents/uploads/pub_6377_europe_s_troublemakers.pdf), a volume published Ashgate in 2015 (co-edited with Caterina Carta and Kristi Raik), The European External Action Service and National Foreign Ministries. Convergence or Divergence?, Human Rights and Democracy in EU Foreign Policy. The cases of Ukraine and Egypt published by Routledge in 2012, paperback in 2014. Justice and Consumers BARNARD Catherine Catherine Barnard MA (Cantab), LLM (EUI), PhD (Cantab) is Professor in European Union Law and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge, and senior tutor and fellow of Trinity College. She specialises in EU law and employment law. She is author of EU Employment Law (Oxford, OUP, 2012, 5th ed.), The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms, (Oxford, OUP, 2016, 5th ed), and (with Peers ed), European Union Law (Oxford, OUP, 2014). She advised the government on the Balance of Competence Review and has done a lot of work with the EU institutions. Currently, Catherine is a Senior Fellow in the ESRC’s UK in a Changing Europe project where she is working with Dr Amy Ludlow on a project entitled: ‘“Honeypot Britain?” The Lived experience of working as an EU migrant in the UK’. She is looking particularly at the question of migrant workers’ access to benefits in the UK.