Floriane Azoulay is the current Director of the Arolsen Archives. A French human rights expert, she was appointed head of the institution by the International Commission (IC) of the Arolsen Archives in 2016. In the past five years of her tenure, she has repositioned the institution, raised its public profile, and implemented digitization throughout the organization. A special focus of her work lies on exploring the synergies between the historical significance of the archival collection and its value for society today. Previously, Floriane Azoulay served as Head of the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) - an intergovernmental organization with 57 participating states. Floriane Azoulay has a Master's degree in Social Sciences from the EHESS in Paris, a Master's degree in Management from ESCP Europe, and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Paris-La Sorbonne.

Yfat Barak-Cheney is the WJC's Director of International Affairs and Human Rights.
Yfat earned an LL.M in International Legal Studies from New York University where she was a Transitional Justice Scholar and an International Law and Human Rights Fellow. She also holds an LL.M (with honors) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she also received her L.L.B and a B.A in International Relations. Yfat clerked with the International Law Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. She also spent a year as a fellow with the criminal justice department of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) in New York and several months with the ICTJ Bogotá office. She previously worked with the Ministry of Justice Unit for Combating Human Trafficking and in several NGO's. Yfat is a co-founder of ALMA - Association for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law in Israel. She is an International Law instructor for the American Red Cross and a pro-bono attorney for immigration and asylum cases. She is a member of the New York Bar and the Israeli Bar Association.

Matthias is a linguist, with a strong focus on pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, (critical) discourse and media studies, research on prejudice and nationalism, as well as on internet/social media studies.

At Freie Universität Berlin, he read linguistics, philosophy and literature, and has worked in several research projects on the use of language in political and media campaigns. His doctoral dissertation, published with Nomos in 2018, analyses the linguistic construction of national pride, antisemitic stereotypes and demonising historical analogies in British and German discourses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. An English version of the book (with the title "Antisemitism in Reader Comments: Analogies for Reckoning with the Past") was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2021.

Since 2019, Matthias is a postdoc researcher at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) at Technische Universität in Berlin. Furthermore, he is affiliated to CENTRIC (Sheffield Hallam University) and to the Vidal Sassoon Center at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In his postdoc project, he examines various forms of antisemitic and racist hate speech on British news websites in the context of Brexit. Next to antisemitism, he conducted studies on the concept of national racism and antiziganism.

A consistent link between all his research activities is the question of how implicit hate speech - apparently accepted within various milieus of the political mainstream - is constructed and what conditions its production is subject to.