Elena Kountouri Tapiero is Acting Regional Representative for Europe at the United Nations Human Rights Office. She has worked with several inter-governmental and expert UN bodies, including the Human Rights Council. She is a barrister-at-law and has practised international arbitration.

Daniela La Mattina is an e-learning Executive Officer at the Global Campus of Human Rights. She prepare, implement and evaluate e-learning activities. Previously, she worked as an EMA executive officer, and at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. She also worked in the field of on democracy support at the European Parliament, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, and the Italian Embassy in Congo (Brazzaville). 

In partnership with Stop Ecocide International (SEI), Helena Zaide and Jennifer Laourou have founded Österreich gegen Ökozid (Austria Against Ecocide), the Austrian national team that advocates for the prevention and prosecution of ecocide as an international crime.

Jennifer is a student of the Vienna Master of Applied Human Rights at the university of Applied Arts.