Carola Carazzone is Vice-President of Philea – Philanthropy Europe Association. She specialises in international human rights law. She also established the Human Rights Office of Volontariato Internazionale per lo sviluppo. She has been a Visiting Professor at academic institutions, international training centres and universities worldwide. She was Associate Professor of Fundamental Rights at Milan University. She was also Spokesperson for a network of 88 Italian human rights NGOs. 

Thomas Coombes is Founder and Director of Hope-based communications, a narrative change organisation training activists around the world to talk about the change they want to see. He previously worked for Amnesty International and the European Commission. He writes about strategies for social change on Substack.