EuroDIG 2025

Dr. Desara Dushi

Postdoctoral researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Dr. Desara Dushi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Law, Science, Technology & Society group (LSTS) of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). An expert at the intersection of law and technology, she is currently involved in the COHUBICOL and ALTEP-DP projects, focusing on the implications of legal technologies in the rule of law and fundamental rights, automation and GDPR compliance, cybercrime, online sexual abuse of children, and other AI related topics. She has a double PhD degree in Law, Science and Technology from University of Bologna and University of Luxembourg.

Desara has been involved in the EuroDIG community since 2016, both as member of organizing teams and as Focal Point of sessions related to cybercrime.

Inga Rimkevičienė

Chief Advisor on International Cooperation at the Communications Regulatory Authority (RRT) of the Republic of Lithuania.

Works at the national regulator for more than 18 years. She coordinated and participated in several EU projects in the field of electronic communications, was the member of Standardization Technical Committee on Electromagnetic Compatibility (TK 8). Since 2018, Member of Lithuanian delegation at the main ITU events. Since 2020, the main coordinator of preparations of Europe for the World Telecommunication Conference. Active participant of the Network of Women (NoW) for Europe Region, member of the Advisory Board of the Network of Women for ITU-D.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingarimkeviciene/

Dr. Jörn Erbguth

University of Geneva

Jörn Erbguth has a background in computer science and law. He offers consultancy services for sustainable innovation, data protection and blockchain. Jörn Erbguth is a board member at the EDV-Gerichtstag in Germany at the association entscheidsuche.ch and a member of the senate of the academic blockchain bloxberg.

Karen Mulberry

Senior Manager of Public Affairs at IEEE Standards Association (SA)

Karen Mulberry is Senior Manager of Public Affairs at IEEE Standards Association (SA) where she is manages strategic public and government affairs programs at the intersection of technology, standards, regulation, and policy. Karen has been involved developing and managing initiatives that shape technical policy and provide technical thought leadership throughout her career. Karen’s background includes working at ICANN, the Internet Society (ISOC), Neustar and Verizon. She holds a BS in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and an MBA from the University of Phoenix. Additional experience can be found on my LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-mulberry

Mark Carvell

Independent consultant on Internet governance policy

Mark Carvell is an independent consultant on Internet governance policy based in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the EuroDIG Support Association and of the UN Internet Governance Forum’s Working Group on Strategy (IGF WG-Strategy). He is also a senior policy adviser with the IGF’s dynamic coalition on Internet Standards, Security and Safety (IS3C).
From 2008 to 2019, Mark was Head of Internet Governance Policy in the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and
Sport (DCMS). During this time, he represented the UK in international negotiations relating to digital policy and Internet governance at the G7 (2016-17), in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and on the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee on Media and the Information Society (CDMSI).
He was the UK representative on ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) and was Vice-Chair of the GAC in 2017-18. Mark was also a member of the Steering Committee of the UK’s national IGF (UK IGF) and an adviser to the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) on Internet governance policy.

Meri Baghdasaryan

Attorney from Armenia, Senior Case and Policy Officer at the Oversight Board

Meri Baghdasaryan is an attorney from Armenia, currently working on human rights issues at the intersection of law and technology as a Senior Case and Policy Officer at the Oversight Board. Her expertise and experience focus on issues related to global free expression online, intermediary liability, and privacy and data protection.

Meri has prior extensive experience in international human rights litigation and research. She served as a human rights consultant for UNDP and Council of Europe. She further worked on technology and human rights issues in United States and globally as a Legal Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation and Electronic Frontier Foundation. She also conducted research and writing as a Special Publications Lead at Content Policy and Society Lab (CPSL) at Stanford University.

Meri is an active member of various Internet Governance communities, a former Steering Committee Member of Youth Coalition on Internet Governance, and the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles. She has been a EuroDIG community member since 2019, serving as a programme committee member for YOUthDIG2020 and 2021.

Minda Moreira

Minda is a steering committee member and former co-chair of the Internet Rights and Principles Coalition (IRPC) based at the UN Internet Governance Forum, where she supports the outreach effort of this coalition and its main output document: The Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet. She is also a member of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Environment (DCE) and the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES).

She is interested in issues at the intersection of human rights, Internet Governance, Artificial Intelligence and environmental sustainability and she has organised, coordinated and participated as an invited speaker at events focusing on these issues at the Internet Governance Forum and other conferences.

Minda holds a Master’s Degree in Global Media and Transnational Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London and she is currently a postgraduate law student at Queen Mary’s, University of London, specialising in Human Rights Law.

Minda has recently moved to Germany from the UK where she specialised in creative media, (digital) marketing and communications, and event and audience management. She is originally from Lisbon and there she worked in print journalism and book publishing.

Riccardo Nanni

Researcher in data governance at Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Riccardo Nanni is a researcher in data governance at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy) and he teaches “Media, Politics and Human Rights” at the University of Padova (Italy). He holds a PhD in Political and Social Science from the University of Bologna (Italy) and is an active member of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (Giganet) and the Italian Internet Governance Forum.

Vlad Ivanets

Journalist and media researcher

Vlad Ivanets is a journalist and media researcher with a strong interest in civil society development, freedom of expression and regulation of digital space. He holds a Master’s degree in Journalism and has over a decade of professional experience as a content manager for NGOs and creative companies, and as a reporter for Russian independent media outlets such as Novaya Gazeta and Boomaga.
Since 2020, he has been actively involved in regional and international Internet Governance initiatives, contributing to the Youth Board of CCTLD.RU, SEEDIG, RIGF, IGF, and more. At the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in 2021, he presented a youth generation report on “Inclusive Internet Governance Ecosystem and Digital Cooperation”. In the summer of 2022, he helped organise the Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance (YOU^thDIG) and was a fellow at the European Summer School on Internet Governance (EuroSSIG). In 2023, Vlad was selected for the Internet Society (ISOC) Youth Ambassador Programme and has been an active participant of the EuroDIG community since 2021.

Yrjö Länsipuro

Internet Society Finland Chapter

Active in EuroDIG since 2008, Yrjö Länsipuro served as its Subject Matter Expert on media and content issues. His background is in journalism, international broadcasting cooperation, public diplomacy and Internet governance. He is a Board Member and President of the Finnish Chapter of the Internet Society, and Board Member of EURALO, the European regional organisation of the At-Large community of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). M.Sc.(Soc.) from Tampere University, he served the Finnish Broadcasting Co. as Managing Editor of TV News and Bureau Chief in Moscow and Hongkong, the European Broadcasting Union as Bureau Chief in New York, and the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs as Press Counselor of the Embassy in Washington DC and as Director-General of the Department of Press and Culture.

Octavian Sofransky

Digital Governance Advisor in the Digital Governance and Sport Department of the Council of Europe

Octavian is currently acting as a Digital Governance Advisor in the Digital Governance and Sport Department of the Council of Europe. He works on the implementation of the Council of Europe Digital Agenda, coordinates relations with technology companies and their associations, members of the Digital Partnership of the Council of Europe, and supports cooperation with internet governance forums and institutions. He has coordinated Council of Europe participation in several IGF, EuroDIG and SEEDIG forums, including taking up speaker and moderator roles.

His experience at the Council of Europe also includes cooperation activities in the field of prevention and combating corruption and money-laundering, assessment of projects financed by the Council of Europe Development Bank, preparation of the organisational Programme of Activities and monitoring the implementation of projects of the IT investment portfolio. He holds a master’s in European studies from the College of Europe in Warsaw, Poland, a Master in Peace studies from the University of Castellon, Spain, and a Diploma in Architecture from the Chișinău Technical University, Moldova.

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Council of Europe