Daiva Janavičienė

Daiva Janavičienė is a doctor of communication and information sciences. She graduated in Librarianship and Bibliography from Vilnius University in 1986 and obtained a doctorate degree (Communication and Information) at Vilnius University’s Faculty of Communication in 2002. In 1998–2016, she discontinuously worked at Klaipėda University (a lecturer and subsequently a professor). Since 2017, a senior methodologist and researcher at the Information and Communication Sciences Department of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. Her research interest are library services, the librarian’s professionalism, and bibliotherapy. Her recently published works are on bibliotherapy (reading recommendations for experiencing exclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic, theory and practice of bibliotherapy, and bibliotherapy methodology), reference services of libraries, and the evolution of reading.

Rasa Januševičienė

Rasa Januševičienė is a doctor of communication and information sciences. She graduated in Librarianship and Bibliography from Vilnius University in 1989. From this University, she also obtained a master’s degree in Management of Libraries and Information Centres (in 2000) and a doctorate degree (in 2005).  Starting with 1997, she worked at the Lithuanian Library for the Blind and in 2007–2018, she was this Library’s Director. In 2005–2017, she taught at Vilnius University’s Faculty of Communication. Since 2019, Rasa Januševičienė has been working at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania; currently she is heading the Centre for the Development of Culture Information and Communication Competences. Her research interests are library management, investigation of library practice during crises, library services for the socially excluded, librarianship paradigms, librarianship theory, and professional identity of librarians. Recently, she published studies on the operation of Lithuanian public libraries during the quarantine period.

Jūratė Kuprienė

Jūratė Kuprienė is a doctor of humanities. In 2006–2018, she was the Director of the Scholarly Communication and Technologies Department at the Vilnius University Library and a lecturer and researcher at Vilnius University’s Faculty of Communication. She has been a member of working groups of international organisations LIBER and COAR for open access to information and data as well as working groups for drawing up programmes for financing the information infrastructure of education and science initiated by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Sports. Currently, Jūratė Kuprienė is heading the team of business analysts at the company UAB Euromonitor. Her research interests are organisation of information and data management, interoperability of ontologies and taxonomies, library systems, and requirements for strategic development of information systems.

Regina Varnienė-Janssen

Regina Varnienė-Janssen is a doctor of social sciences. In 1991–2015, she was a Deputy Director of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania and was heading its various structural units. In 2010–2021 (until July), she was an associate professor and project expert at Vilnius University’s Faculty of Communication. She was also heading this University’s Research Centre for the Organisation of Libraries and Information. Her research interests are data and information management within the public sector, issues of creating a single digital cultural space, open linked data, and authenticity and provenance within the Semantic Web. Since 2004, Regina Varnienė-Janssen has been a member of the Editorial Board of the scholarly journal Parlamento studijos (Parliamentary Studies).

Liutauras Ulevičius

Liutauras Ulevičius is an associate professor of partnership at Vilnius University’s Faculty of Communication. For more than two decades, he has been a communication practitioner. Having started with freelance media writing on IT topics during his early law studies, he later chose the profession of the public relations consultant. Currently, his main areas of activity are business consulting and the fight against disinformation. He lectures persuasive communication, theories of propaganda, public Diplomacy and Persuasion, International Crisis Communication, and Political communication on social media at Vilnius University.

Andrius Vaišnys

Andrius Vaišnys is a doctor of communication and information sciences, a professor at Vilnius University’s Faculty of Communication (hereinafter ‘VU FC’), the Director of the National Library’s Information and Communication Sciences Department, and this Library’s Deputy Director-General for science and strategic development. Formerly the Dean of VU FC (2007–2017) and the Director of the Institute of Creative Medias at VU FC (2012–2013). Since 2017, he has been the Head of the Department of Political Communication at Vilnius University’s Institute of Journalism. In 1997–2006, Andrius Vaišnys was heading the Public Relations Unit of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. Since 2009, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Editorial Board of the journal Parlamento studijos (Parliamentary Studies).

His research interests are information policy and journalism, political communication, development of parliamentarism, and cultural policy. Andrius Vaišnys has published the monographs Spauda ir valstybė 1918–1940: analizė istoriniu, teisiniu ir politiniu aspektu (1999), Vieši Seimo ryšiai su visuomene (2014), Gražinos Ručytės PIANISSIMO: branda ir sklaida antiformalistinio rojuko metais (2019), and Žurnalistikos potvynis: Lietuvos žiniasklaidos sistemos kaita 1986–1990 (2020) and is a co-author of the monograph Rusijos propaganda: analizė, įvertinimas, rekomendacijos (2016). He wrote and edited the illustrated history of the Lithuanian parliament of the 20^th century Lietuvos Seimas (2001). He is the author of various fiction works and scripts.

Arūnas Brazauskas

Arūnas Brazauskas is a journalist. Starting with 1990, he worked at editors’ offices of Lietuvos aidas, Elta, Verslo žinios, Laisvoji banga, Veidas, etc.as well as at the radio. Since 2017, he has been a staff member of the Information Policy and Analysis Unit at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.

Liudvika Meškauskaitė

Liudvika Meškauskaitė is a lawyer and the author of monographs on media law and the right to privacy. Her research interests are legal regulation of public information and protection of individual rights and public interest within the public communication.

Formerly she was a member of the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (1999–2000 and 2005–2009), a member at the Board of the Press, Radio, and Television Support Foundation (2004–2008), and a member of the Council of the Lithuanian Bar Association (2002–2008 and 2011–2018). Since 1997, she has been a trustee lawyer at the Austrian Embassy to Lithuania. Liudvika Meškauskaitė is a law practitioner at both Lithuanian courts and at the European Court of Human Rights. Currently, Liudvika Meškauskaitė is a partnership professor at Vilnius University’s Faculty of Law.

Kamen Kovachev

Kamen Kovachev: PhD, lecturer at Sofia University’s Faculty of Economics. Main interests: media communication, political advertising, and public relations.

Antoaneta Getova

Antoaneta Getova: PhD, assistant professor at Sofia University’s Sociology Department. Main interests: digital sociology, quantitative methods, and economic sociology.

Ilga Kreituse

Professor Ilga Kreituse is the head of the study program Regional policy and national governance and a lecturer at the European Studies Faculty, Riga Stradins University. Her doctoral thesis was about the use of math techniques in history research. Her research now focuses on forms of political party activity, the non governmental sector, and the involvement of the public in democratization processes. Former Member of the Latvian Parliament and the 6th Chairman of the Latvian Saeima.

Barbara Roskoša

Barbara Roskoša has got a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Political Communication at Riga Stradiņš University. She has been working for the PR agency Mediju Tilts as a project manager. Her research interests are political communication, political discourse in social media, digital populism, and social anthropology.

Giedrius Česnakas

Giedrius Česnakas is a professor at the Defence Policy Research Group and manager of political study programmes at the General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania.

Joanna Rak

Joanna Rak is an associate professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 2016–2020, she was a visiting researcher at CEU San Pablo University in Madrid, University of Navarra, and Charles III University of Madrid. She is the principal investigator of the research projects The Culture of Political Violence Dynamics of Anti-Austerity Movements in Europe and Contentious Politics and Neo-Militant Democracy financed by the National Science Centre, Poland. Joanna Rak is a laureate of the Scholarship by the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists, the Barbara Skarga Scholarship, and the START Scholarship by the Foundation for Polish Science. She is the author of the book Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity: Studying Social Movements in Comparative Perspective (London and New York: Routledge, 2018) and a co-editor of Neo-militant Democracies in the Post-communist Member States of the European Union (London and New York: Routledge, 2022 forthcoming).

Ainė Ramonaitė

Ainė Ramonaitė is a professor at Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science, the Head of the Department of Political Behaviour and Institutions, and the Head of the (Post)Soviet Memory Studies Centre. Her main research fields are electoral behaviour, political approaches, social networks, and mechanisms of collective action. She has published extensively on the development of the party system and the dynamics of electoral behaviour in Lithuania as well as cultural resistance during the Soviet period and political mobilisation during the period of the reform movement Sąjūdis. Ainė Ramonaitė is the initiator and the principal investigator of the Lithuanian National Election Study. She represents Lithuania at international study networks, such as Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES), Monitoring Electoral Democracy (MEDem), and European Election Studies (EES).

Dainius Žalimas

Dainius Žalimas is a professor of constitutional and international law. Dean of the Faculty of Law at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas), Head of the Law and Democracy Centre (Justice Hub for Belarus). Substitute member of the European Commission ‘Democracy Through Law’ (the Venice Commission). Professor at the Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius).

Former judge (2011–2021) and the President (2014–2021) of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania. In 2005–2011, a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In 1998–2011, a legal adviser to the Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania; in 2001–2011, the Chair of the National Commission on the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law under the Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania. In 1996–2019, a lecturer, associate professor and professor at Vilnius University. In 2001, he received doctor’s degree (Ph. D., Law, Social Sciences) from Vilnius University.

Awards: in 2018, the Grand Cross of Commander of the Order of Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (of the Republic of Lithuania); in 2016, the Order of Honour (of the Republic of Moldova). An author or co-author of more than 10 books on public international law and constitutional law, more than 150 research articles, and more than 70 other articles. In 1991, he participated in the defence of the Republic of Lithuania from the Soviet aggression.

Guillaume Tusseau

Dr. Guillaume Tusseau was trained both in political science and law. He is currently Professor of Public Law at Sciences Po Law School, in Paris, and a member of the Academic Institute of France (Institut universitaire de France). He has been a member of the Conseil supérieur de la magistrature (French High Council for the Judiciary) from 2015 to 2019. His main areas of interest are comparative constitutional law and legal theory, both fields in which he has extensively taught and published. Among his latest publications are: Contentieux constitutionnel comparé. Une introduction critique au droit processuel constitutionnel (Lextenso, 2021) and Droit constitutionnel et institutions politiques (6th ed., Le Seuil, 2021).

Cyril Benoît

Dr. Cyril Benoît is a CNRS Researcher at the Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée, Sciences Po. His research interests are broadly in comparative political economy, with an emphasis on regulatory politics, corporate influence in law making, and legislative-administrative relations. Among other publications, he has recently co-edited (with Olivier Rozenberg) the Handbook of Parliamentary studies, bringing together 33 scholars in the field.

Magnus Tomas Kėvišas

Magnus Tomas Kėvišas holds a bachelor’s degree in Scandinavian studies and a master’s in cognitive neuroscience. Formerly a communications manager in a Balto-Scandian environment in the private sector, he is currently heading the Department for Parliamentary Information Services at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. His research interests are mostly the questions of methodology in natural and social sciences, as well as the research methodology in humanities, and the associated applied problems: the consequences of the method of information in terms of its pragmatic outcomes, especially so the tension between democratic and technocratic governance.

Līga Romāne-Kalniņa

Līga Romāne-Kalniņa is a Ph.D. candidate of Linguistics and a part-time lecturer at the University of Latvia as well as an expert in science commercialization at the department of technology of Latvian Investment and Development Agency. Her research interests include language innovation, financial, legal, and academic English, political and media discourse, critical discourse studies, corpus linguistics, and written and spoken communication across cultures.

Danguolė Bardauskaitė

Danguolė Bardauskaitė is the lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania. Her current research projects examine the influence of think tanks on foreign and security policies, with a focus on the United States and the Baltic States. She was a Fulbright Researcher in the School of International Service at the American University, in 2015-2016. Bardauskaitė received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) in 2018. Previously Bardauskaitė has also served as a Political Adviser at the Royal Danish Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Andrius Šuminas

Dr. Andrius Šuminas is a manager of an election campaign monitoring project “The 2020 Election of the Seimas”. His areas of research interest are political communication, election campaigns, communication theories, visual communication, and influence and propaganda techniques. He is a member of organisational and programme committees of various international research conferences. In 2010–2021, he was the scientific editor of the journal Parlamento studijos. Currently is the professor at Vilnius Tech university.

Emma Crewe

Emma Crewe is a Research Professor at SOAS (University of London) and a Research Supervisor at the University of Hertfordshire where she teaches PhD students about management. An anthropologist by training, her research focuses on organisations (especially parliaments) and she has been publishing widely on politics, policy and leadership, including her latest book on the Anthropology of Parliaments (Routledge, 2021). She is currently Director of the Global Research Network on Parliaments and People, Chair of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Committee on the Anthropology of Policy and Practice, and Chair of the SOAS Senate. She is leading a global comparative ethnographic study of parliaments in Brazil, Ethiopia, Fiji, India, the UK and the US (funded by an European Research Council Advanced Grant 2019-2024).