Disinformation, Media & the European Information Space

Jeannette Gusko is an entrepreneur and C-level leader, advisory board member, and author. She builds robust, transformative enterprises with high effectiveness and scales values. She currently serves as Digital Participation Officer at SPRIND, the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. “Deutschland, was geht?” (Germany, what'sup?) is the first initiative to come out of this. 

Previously, she led the campaigning and fundraising for chancellor candidate Robert Habeck, The German Greens, in the 2024/2025 federal election campaign. With over 12 million euros, it was the most successful political fundraising campaign ever in Europe. Jeannette served as CO-CEO and Managing Director at media house CORRECTIV for several years and during the Potsdam investigations. From 2017 to 2021, she was the founding director of the DACH branch of GoFundMe, the world's largest fundraising platform. Since 2012, she has held various roles at the international campaign platform Change.org, most recently as Global Brand and Engagement Manager. Her non-fiction debut, “Aufbrechen” (Breaking Away), highlights Germany's most important contemporary resource: transformation competence.

Current Position
2025-: Digital Participation Officer at SPRIND.

Previous Experience
2024-2025: Head of Campaigning & Fundraising for the German Federal Election Campaign 2025 (Alliance 90/Die Grünen)
2022-2024: Co-CEO and Managing Director, CORRECTIV

Key Assets
Combines media innovation, civic participation, and political mobilisation
Leadership experience in both journalism and democratic engagement

Project Idea
European Disinformation Dome – coordinated defence chain against disinformation

Quentin Ariès is the deputy Editor-in-Chief of Contexte, a media dedicated to European and French public policies. Based in Brussels since 2014, he was also at Politico Europe, The Washington Post, freelanced for French and English-speaking media and was the Editor-in-Chief of Sphera, a network of ten socially-engaged European independent media. He is a lecturer in European journalism for various journalism schools. 

Current Position
2025-: Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Contexte Brussels.

Previous Experience
2022-2025: Editor-in-Chief, Sphera Network
2018-2022: Reporter for Contexte, The Atlantic, Mediapart and The Washington Post
2014-2022: Board Member/President of Cafébabel

Key Assets
Deep expertise in European affairs and media ecosystems
Extensive experience in transnational journalism

Project Idea
Weimar Triangle dialogue of independent media leaders – rule of law, media
sustainability

Clarisse Thomas is a corporate communication and press relations manager at the European Financial Group ODDO BHF. She covers financial issues across Europe, with a focus on Franco-German relationship as well as international geopolitical developments.

Current Position
2025-: Group Communication & Public Affairs Manager, Oddo Group.

Previous Experience
2024-2025: Public sector consultant
2022-2023: Adviser on economic development and attractiveness to the President of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region
Early experience across German and French public institutions

Key Assets
Combines public-sector experience with corporate public affairs expertise
Strong Franco-German profile

Project Idea
Rise of populism as challenge for Europe – communication and EU trust-building

Anna Wójcik specializes in European law and comparative constitutional law. She is a principal investigator in the Constitutional Law Department at Kozminski University in Warsaw. She also works as a journalist, focusing on democracy and the rule of law in the European Union.

Current Position
2024-: Principal Investigator in Constitutional Law at Kozminski University.

Previous Experience
2023-2024: Researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Key Assets
Recognised expert on rule of law, constitutionalism, and human rights
Extensive experience in European legal research

Project Idea
EU strengthening media freedom & pluralism – internal & external threats