About us
- identify and debate key issues in digital communications policies;
- promote an environment conductive to global, interdisciplinary, multilateral, independent, humanitarian and ethical approach to the digital transformation;
- produce high quality events, studies and research;
- create and maintain an international network among the members present in every sector of communication, offering them the possibility of comparison and reciprocal exchange in a not competitive environment.
MEDEA Founding Members
Joan Barata
Intermediary Liability Fellow, Program on Platform Regulation, Cyber Policy Center at Stanford University. Joan works on freedom of expression, media regulation, and intermediary liability issues. He teaches at various universities in different parts of the world and has published a large number of articles and books on these subjects, both in academic and popular press. His work has taken him in most regions of the world, and he is regularly involved in projects with international organizations such as UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States or the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, where was the principal advisor to the Representative on Media Freedom. Joan Barata also has experience as a regulator, as he held the position of Secretary General of the Audiovisual Council of Catalonia in Spain and was member of the Permanent Secretariat of the Mediterranean Network of Regulatory Authorities.
Sally Broughton Micova
Associate Professor in Communications Policy and Politics at the University of East Anglia and member of its Centre for Competition Policy. Sally is also an Academic Co-Director at the Centre for Regulation in Europe (CERRE), and a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Communication Studies in North Macedonia. She regularly serves as an expert for the Council of Europe’s media programmes and has contributed to research projects for the European Commission. She completed her PhD in 2013 at the LSE. Before entering academia, she worked over a decade in international organisations.
Jean-François Furnémont
Founding Partner of Wagner-Hatfield, a research and consulting company specialized on policy, regulation and strategy in the media and digital economy sectors. Jean-François holds a BA in Journalism and Communication Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles – ULB, a MA in International Relations and European policy at the Université de Liège – ULG and a MA in Public Finances at the Université Catholique de Louvain – UCL. As former freelance journalist and former spokesman of a political party, he is the author of several books of political science and a number of publications on media policy and regulation. He held the position of Director General (2003-2014) of the audiovisual media regulatory authority (CSA) of the French speaking Community in Belgium. He has also been actively involved in the Board of the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities (EPRA) as vice-Chairman (2008-2011) and as Chairman (2011-2014). As the author of many studies, research projects and publications, he excels in the following fields : drafting and reviewing of media primary/secondary legislation and broadcasting codes, advice and capacity building for media regulatory authorities and ministries, material scope of media regulation (online media, social networks, video-sharing platforms), jurisdiction issues, licensing and related systems, media concentration and transparency of media ownership, promotion of domestic and European works and financial support schemes to audiovisual creation, hate speech, fight against disinformation, protection of minors, commercial communications, articulation between self- and co-regulation and statutory regulation.
Persa E. Lampropoulou
Legal Advisor to the (Greek) National Council for Radio and Television since 1999 and a Partner at Anagnostopoulos Law Firm. Persa received her education at the University of Athens, Department of Law (1990) and the University of London, QMWC (M.Sc. in Public Policy, 1993). She is contributor to Media Law (by Prof. I. Karakostas in 1998). She is a member of the Athens Bar Association (1994), the International Bar Association and the Commercial Lawyers Association.
Adriana Mutu
Professor specialized in audiovisual media regulation, media independence, governance and policymaking at the international level. Adriana brings together academic and industry knowledge, cross-disciplinary training and research experience including in Europe, North America and MENA. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and a MA degree in Journalism and Communication Sciences from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. She conducted research at the University of Pennsylvania and at the University of Helsinki. Member of the Daniel Jones Research Group in Communication Structure and Policies at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the UAB. Provides expertise and assistance to different entities and international organizations, including the Council of Europe.
Augusto Preta
Board member of the International Institute of Communications (IIC) and President of the IIC Italian Chapter. Augusto is an economist and market analyst, with long-established experience in the field of content media and digital markets. As founder and CEO at ITMedia Consulting, he has assisted and advised for almost 30 years public institutions, authorities and major companies in media, telecommunications and the internet industries. He is also member of well known public and private organisations, such as SIE (Società Italiana degli Economisti), ADEC (Associazione di Diritto ed Economia delle Comunicazioni e dei media digitali) among the others. He has been involved in many international research projects, writing influential papers and cooperating with organisations such as: Aspen Institute, European Law and Economics Society, Luigi Einaudi Foundation. He is author of “Economia dei contenuti” (2008),“TV and relevant markets” (2013) and more recently the Fondation Robert Schuman research report “Convergence in Media and Telecom in face of Covid-19” ((co-authored with Gerard Pogorel – 2020) and the paper co-financed by the European Parliament, “Digital content and European culture: a new paradigm”.
Ľuboš Kukliš
Expert on media regulation and internet governance. From 2006 to 2022, he was the Chief Executive of the Slovak Media Authority. In 2021-2022 Ľuboš served as Chair of the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities (EPRA). In 2018-2019, he was Chair of the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) and, until the end of 2022, led ERGA’s work on disinformation.
Drissia Chouit
Drissia CHOUIT, Ph.D, is a Full Professor of Comparative Linguistics, Communication and Media Studies at Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, Morocco. She obtained her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Communication from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris 3), France. She has a number of publications and invited talks as a Linguist and Media and Information Literacy Expert. Former Consultant to UNESCO, she is a member of UNESCO International University Network on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue and Program Director and Moderator of the Series “International E-Seminars on Contemporary Issues in Media and Information Literacy.” A fervent advocate of Media and Information Literacy for All, her multilingual educational website “Media Information Literacy for All”, hosted on the server of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, has an average of 30,000 visits per year https://milunesco.unaoc.org/mil-organizations/media-information-.
Andrea Stazi
Professor of Comparative Law, and New Technologies Law & Management and Director of Research Centres at European University of Rome; Visiting Professor in Biotechnology Law and Academic Fellow at National University of Singapore. Publications: 10 books and 70+ articles in academic journals. Government Affairs & Public Policy – Regulatory Affairs Lead South Europe and Academic Outreach Europe at Google.