Disinformation

Paula Gori is based at the European University Institute and is the Secretary-General and Coordinator of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), which she contributed to set up from the very beginning. She is also member of the EDMO Council on Effective Media Literacy InitiativesShe joined the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute in 2017 where she is a member of the management team. Prior she was the Coordinator of the Florence School of Regulation – Communications and Media, which offers training, policy and research activities on electronic communications regulation and competition and she collaborated with the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, which she coordinated during the initial set-up phase back in 2012 and she is one of the authors of the report for the European Commission on European Union competences in respect of media pluralism and media freedom. Prior to joining EUI, she gained extensive experience at the European Parliament in Brussels. She holds an LL. M in international Law both from Sorbonne University and the University of Florence and a MSc in international relations from the University of Bologna. Her current research interests include: digital policy and regulation, media and information policy and climate change disinformation. Dr Lisa Ginsborg is a Research Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) School of Transnational Governance on the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and is a Lecturer in International Human Rights at New York University (NYU) Florence. She has worked in a number of research and teaching positions, including at University College Dublin (UCD), the EUI-based Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC). She previously worked in the legal department of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International and in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). She holds a PhD in Public International Law from the EUI, an MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an LL.M in Comparative, European and International Laws from the European University Institute (EUI). Her research interests in the field of international human rights law, include digital technologies, international institutional law and disinformation and counter-terrorism policy and regulation.