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Holds bachelor degree in Business and Auditing. During his career he focused on IT services, Customer support, Software as a service, SW deployment, business operations and profiled himself as senior executive with strong financial and business acumen. He was in charge and face of multiple projects, deployments and delivery with customers in area of Retails, Telco and Finance. With over 12 years of experience, he was engaged in small to medium size businesses, and with high focus on enterprises. He enjoys working in non-government sector, supporting entities in need.

Zoya Charles is a multimedia journalist and editor with more than 25 years experience, and has held senior management roles at the BBC. With the Thomson foundation her work has included the role as senior executive producer on the OPEN Media Hub project which trained multimedia broadcast journalists, editors and managers in countries neighbouring the European Union. At the BBC Zoya worked as an editor leading one of its most innovative video journalism teams, which won several awards for its output. As part of her work, she also helped to develop BBC's digital strategy.

Klodiana Kapo leads the organization “Faktoje” which provides fact-finding services since 2019. She assumed this position after three years of experience as Public Relations and Communication Manager at the international children’s organization World Vision, where she was recently awarded the “Global Brand Award” by the global office. Mrs. Kapo comes to “Faktoje” after a 16-year career in the most popular media outlets in the country where she has reported mainly on social issues and more specifically on the education system, health, youth development, etc. During her career, Mrs. Kapo has worked as a journalist at Top Channel (where she counts dozens of documentaries and personal stories), has had her weekly column in the newspaper “Shqip”, and has worked as editor-in-chief at the Albanian Public Television. Klodiana also counts a series of successful awareness campaigns for local and international non-governmental organizations and is a co-author of two books.

Elira Canga has worked as a journalist and editor in Albania for 11 years. She is now working at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe media project manager aiming to modernize the public service media in her country and enriching the journalism curriculum. She has previously worked as journalist and producer for the BBC and as a Media Team Leader at USAID. Elira is experienced in media development and international affairs. She has spent ten years working on media development to encourage investigative reporting and fact-checking, as well as training and mentoring young journalists on media and information literacy and countering disinformation online. During 2021-2022, she is pursuing her Humphrey Fellowship, part of Fulbright program, at Arizona State University, USA.

Davor is Thomson’s Balkans programme manager. He is the project coordinator of Thomson’s component of the FCO backed Supporting Greater Media Independence programme in the Western Balkans. He has extensive experience in media development. His focus is on business support, innovation and audience measurement and engagement. He is a non-resident research fellow with expertise in public media, social media and media trends in new media landscapes at the Center for Media, Data and Society in Budapest.

Jelena is media support and MEL coordinator of the Thomson’s component of the FCO-backed Supporting Greater Media Independence programme in the Western Balkans. She is a journalist, communications and marketing professional, with extensive experience in international development and the media sector. Jelena provides direct assistance to the media outlets in the Western Balkans region, with a special focus on supporting innovative initiatives through business planning, audience engagement and the introduction of new online channels and content formats. Prior to Thomson Foundation, she worked for the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), Serbian National Internet Domains Registry (RNIDS), NGO Civic Initiatives, and volunteered as part of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) community.

Slađana Lučić has been in TV journalism for more than 20 years, currently holding the position of Deputy News Editor at Al Jazeera English in London. She reported from many regional and worldwide events but also trained and mentored young journalists from the Balkan region on journalistic standards, content production, visual storytelling, and documentary filmmaking. Slađana's documentary film Little Star Rising was screened at film festivals like Windsor Film Festival (Canada), Tokyo Lift-off, SEE fest Los Angeles, CinEast Luxembourg, Aman International Film Festival.