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Beata Klimkiewicz

Beata Klimkiewicz is Associate Professor at the Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication, the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Political Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Cracow (2000) and was awarded with numerous fellowships at Oxford University, Columbia University, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute in Florence, Open Society Institute in Budapest and NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences). Her research interests focus on European media and communication policy, media system reform in Central and Eastern Europe, media pluralism and minority media. Recent publications in English include: A Polyvalent Media Policy in the Enlarged European Union (book by the Jagiellonian University Press, 2014), Media Freedom and Pluralism: Media Policy Challenges in the Enlarged Europe (edited book by CEU Press), a special issue on Structural Media Pluralism published in the International Journal of Communication (2010) and others. Beata Klimkiewicz participated in a number of academic and policy international projects. She acted as a member of the Steering Committee and a chair of the Working Group 3 entitled Media Policy and Regulation in the COST A30 Action: East of West: Setting a New Central and East European Media Research Agenda. She was also involved in the project led by the Hans Bredow Institut for the European Commission, entitled Indicators for independence and efficient functioning of audiovisual media services regulatory bodies for the purpose of enforcing the rules in the AVMS Directive" - SMART 2009/0001. She was the expert in the project Independent Study on Indicators for Media Pluralism in the Member States, led by ICRI (KU Leuven) for the European Commission. Among other policy-oriented research projects with participation of Beata Klimkiewicz as an expert, UNESCO’s World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development can be mentioned (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002270/227025e.pdf). Finally, it would be important to mention Beata Klimkiewicz’s academic co-operation with the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, affiliated with the European University Institute in Florence.

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Ljubica Knezevic Cvelbar

Ljubica Knezevic Cvelbar holds a PhD in economics. She has published more than 40 journal papers to date, most of them in top tier tourism scientific journals. Knezevic has been invited to present her work at approximately 30 universities internationally. Her work won several national and international awards, most notably the international Sinclair Award for the best paper published in Tourism Economics in 2016, 2019. She was engaged as an expert in more than 50 consulting and research projects in the field of tourism, leisure and hospitality.

Indrek Ibrus

Indrek Ibrus is a professor of media innovation at Tallinn University’s (TLU) Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School (BFM). He is also the head of TLU’s Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture (MEDIT). Currently his main research area are the innovative reuses of digitised cultural heritage contents, but he also leads research projects on cross-innovation, cross- and transmediality, media and cultural policies. He is the co-editor of “Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions” (together with Carlos A. Scolari; Peter Lang, 2012) Dr. Ibrus received his PhD from London School of Economics and Political Science.

Recent publications: Ibrus, Indrek; Rohn, Ulrike; Nanì, Alessandro (2018). Searching for public value in innovation coordination: How Eurovision Song Contest served to innovate the public service media model in Estonia. International Journal of Cultural Studies.

Rohn, Ulrike; Ibrus, Indrek (2018). A Management Approach to Transmedia Enterprises. In: Freeman, Matthew; Gambarato, Renira (Ed.). The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies. London: Routledge.

Gillian Doyle

Gillian Doyle is Professor of Media Economics and Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research (CCPR) at the University of Glasgow where she directs Glasgow’s MSc in Media Management. Her research on media economics and policy and on the impact of digitisation has been translated and published in several languages. Gillian is Principal Investigator (PI) on ‘Television Production in Transition: Independence, Scale and Sustainability’, a major research project examining recent transformations in ownership structures in the television production sector funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council (2017-2020). She was PI on a recently completed ESRC –funded project on ‘Multi-platform Media and the Digital Challenge’ which investigated economic and policy aspects of digital media convergence and on a major AHRC-funded project entitled ‘The UK Film Council: A Case Study of Film Policy in Transition’. She was also Lead Investigator on ‘Converging Technologies and Business Models’, a project that forms part of the work programme of CREATe, the RCUK hub for research on Copyright and New Business Models for the Creative Economy. Gillian has carried out and supervised studies on media economics and media policy for the Council of Europe, the European Commission and the OECD. Gillian is former President of the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI).