Ph.D. legal sciences (doctoral degree from the University of Warsaw and habilitation from the Jagiellonian University), legal advisor, Associate professor and head of the Department of Information Technology Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Academy of War Arts in Warsaw, director of the Academic Center for Cybersecurity Policy, member of the Council for Digitization at the Minister of Digitization. Lecturer at SWPS University. In the years 1996-2010 she worked as a lawyer, among others. in the National Broadcasting Council, Telewizja Polsat S.A. and on TVP S.A. In the years 2011-2018, deputy director of the National Audiovisual Institute, an institution dealing with the digitization and dissemination of audiovisual heritage (competence center in the field of digitization). Currently, director of the Internet Domain Registry at NASK PIB. As a scientist, she conducts research on regulations legal issues in the area of media, cybersecurity and threats information security, intellectual property protection, digitalization processes and the impact of new technologies on the development of the state and the legal situation of the individual. Editor-in-chief of the magazine published by ASzWoj - Cybersecurity & Law.

Valentin Constantinov was born in 1971 in the Republic of Moldova. Valentin Constantinov studied at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi - Romania, Faculty of History, between 1992-1997. He continued his studies at the same university at the master's courses in Ancient and Medieval Sources of Romanian History, between 1997-1998. In 1998, Valentin Constantinov began his doctoral internship at the University of Al. I. Cuza, Faculty of History. He defended his doctoral thesis with the title Radu Mihnea lord of Wallachia and Moldavia in 2002. Based on this paper, the monograph Wallachia and Moldavia during the reigns of Radu Mihnea was published at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Publishing House in 2007 This work in 2009 won the Nicolae Bălcescu Award of the Romanian Academy. In 2014, Valentin Constantinov published the work Country of Moldavia in the framework of international relations 1611-1634. Polish issues play an important role in his researches: Fellow of the Polish-American Fulbright Commission, Lane Kirkland Program 2004-2005; Polish UNESCO Commission 2006-2008, 2010-2012; scholarship holder of the International Cultural Center-Kraków, 2011. Author of numerous scientific articles on Polish-Romanian relations published in Moldova and Poland. Coordinator of professional internships of Moldovan lecturers and students at Polish universities. Organizer of many international conferences. Editor-in-chief of the Yearbook "Polish-Moldovan Intercultural Dialogue"

Post-doctoral degree, lawyer and political scientist, professor at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin in the field of political and administration sciences, has been working at the Department of Political Systems and Human Rights at the Institute of Political Science and Public Administration since 2008; in the years 2004-2008 she worked at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw, from 2020 head of the Propaganda and Disinformation Research Team at UMCS; author of works on the protection of human rights, freedom of expression, disinformation, the COVID-19-related infodemic and an information society. In 2022 participated in the work on the report “Counteracting disinformation in Poland. Systematic Recommendations”, prepared by nearly forty Polich experts and containing over sixty recommendations, presented to the Senate of the Republic of Poland in March 2023. See more: https://www.umcs.pl/pl/addres-book-employee,538,pl.html

Giovanni Ercolani (PhD Social Anthropology, University of Murcia, Spain; PhD Int. Rel. & Security Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UK) is a Sociocultural Anthropologist, Researcher at the ‘Society and Culture’ research group (University of Murcia, Spain), and Researcher Associate at ‘LADEC - Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Enjeux Contemporains’ (Université Lumière Lyon 2, France). Dr. Ercolani is a specialist in Sociocultural Anthropology, Political Science, Security Studies, International Relations, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Art, and Contemporary History; his multidisciplinary researches focus on the topics of culture, social myths, collective imaginaries, symbols, security, and identity; and he is Fellow (elected) of the ‘Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland’ (UK)

Graduated from the Pedagogical College with a specialization in Sculpture and Fine Art (1989-1993). After graduating from the Pedagogical College, in 1993 she successfully passed the entrance exams to the State University of Moldova, Faculty of History. She defended her bachelor's thesis on the topic "Genesis of Nazism", scientific supervisor Alexandru Moșanu, doctor in history, the first president of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova. In 1998, she successfully graduated from the Faculty of History of the State University of Moldova. Between 1998-2001, she did her doctorate at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova. In 2003, she defended her doctoral thesis in history with the title: "Theological education in Bessarabia (1812-1917). From 1998 to the present, she works at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau. Area of research interests: new information technologies and their application in public education.

Dr Chris Farrands was educated at University of Wales Aberystwyth, the London School of Economics and the University of Durham. He was formerly head of the International Relations subject group in the School of Humanities at Nottingham Trent University before retiring from full time work, but he still does some graduate teaching, examining and supervision there. He has also taught at LSE, Leicester University and the Open University, and he has been visiting professor at the Universities of Grenoble and Paris XII Créteil and at American University in Washington DC. The author of about a hundred published papers and articles, he is also the author, co-author or editor of a dozen books, most recently including International Political Economy in the 21st Century (London, Routledge, 2024 forthcoming 3rd edition). Most recently, he has focused on technology and security issues , but he has also published extensively on the philosophy of political economy and on foreign policy. He has also acted as a consultant on technology and political economy to the Economist Intelligence Unit, Oxford Analytica, the Commission of the EU and several U.K. government departments.

Ambassador Shota Gvineria joined the Baltic Defence College as the lecturer in Defence and Cyber Studies in July of 2019. He is also a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Research Center since 2017. Earlier, Amb. Gvineria has been working on various positions in Georgia’s public sector. Among other positions, Shota Gvineria served as the Deputy Secretary at the National Security Council of Georgia. He held the position of the Foreign Policy Advisor to the Minister of Defense of Georgia in 2015-16. Through 2010-14, he served as the Ambassador of Georgia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 2010 he was promoted to the position of a Director of European Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. Prior to that, he served as a Head of NATO Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. In the period from 2006 until 2008, Shota Gvineria was posted as the Counselor of the Georgian Mission to NATO. Amb. Gvineria holds MA in Strategic Security Studies from Washington’s National Defense University. He also earned his MA in International Relations from the Diplomatic School of Madrid and Public Administration from the Georgian Technical University.

Miron Lakomy is a Professor at the Institute of Political Sciences, the University of Silesia, Poland, and a visiting professor at the ITSTIME research center in Milan, Italy, under the NAWA Bekker program (2023-2024). He is an open-source intelligence trainer and investigator with 10+ years of experience in analyzing terrorist activities on various layers of online communication, including the dark web. He was engaged in projects involving, among others, WEBINT, SOCMINT, IMINT, and GEOINT. During his academic career, he held visiting research positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge (twice, in 2011 and 2018), the European University Institute, and the University of Milan (non-resident). In the past, he conducted research visits, among others, to the University of Toronto and King's College London. Miron Lakomy held visiting teaching positions at the Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis and Università Degli Studi di Napoli. Moreover, he has headed numerous research grants, including those funded by the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (King's College London), the International Council For Canadian Studies, and the National Science Centre in Poland. He has been a member of numerous academic bodies, including the Editorial Board of Security Journal (Palgrave Macmillan, IF: 1.866), the Countering Violent Extremism Working Group at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Constitutional Responses to Terrorism research group within the International Association of Constitutional Law. His research primarily focuses on various aspects of political violence and terrorism on the Internet, information security, as well as military conflicts. He has published five monographs and more than 65 scientific papers in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Poland.

Head of the Defence24 Group analysis unit, analyst, and academic lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Dr. Raubo deals with issues of international relations, national security, and the development of modern technologies in security and defense.

Ilin Alexandrov Savov is the Director of Scientific Institute of security and alimentary sustainability at Trakia University. He is full professor, doctor and doctor of science on the field of "National Security". In 2000, he began his professional career as an intelligence officer in the security services of the Republic of Bulgaria. In 2013 he defended his first doctorate degree at the Academy of Ministry of Interior of Republic of Bulgaria. In 2021 he defended his second doctorate degree “Doctor of Science” at Military Academy of Republic of Bulgaria. From 2022 to December 2023, he was a Commissioner, Deputy rector of the Academy of the Ministry of the Interior. He trains investigative police officers and operatives in crime prevention structures in Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Greece and other countries. He conduct classes and lectures as full professor at Trakia University, Sofia University, Plovdiv University, New Bulgarian University, Academy of the Ministry of Interior and Military Academy in Republic of Bulgaria. Author of over 90 publications (10 monographic books) on the field of intelligence and defense of national security. Prof. dr. Ilin Savov is an established expert on national and international security issues, as well as operational-search and operational-technical activities for protection against international organized criminial groups. Delivers a number of reports at prestigious scientific forums in the Republic of Bulgaria and abroad. As a scientist, he conducts research on regulations legal issues in the area of management and functioning of the security services and the Ministry of the Interior, alimentary sustainability, cyber security, human trafficking, migration processes, the use and control of special intelligence tools and traffic data in the Republic of Bulgaria, the EU and the USA. He is a member of the Union of Scientists in the Republic of Bulgaria and the International Police Association (IPA).