Prof. dr. Sarah A. Cramsey is the Special Chair for Central European Studies and Director of the Austria Centre at Leiden University where she is also a University Lecturer in Judaism and Diaspora Studies. She is a historian of central and eastern Europe, the global Jewish experience throughout historical time and the significant Jewish diasporas unleased from the lands between Berlin and Moscow as a result of the Holocaust, World War II and postwar events. She received my doctorate in late modern European history with a designated emphasis in Jewish Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014. Since then, she has taught courses on modern European history, central and Eastern Europe, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Tulane University and the Université libre de Bruxelles. Her first book, 'Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the "Ethnic Revolution" in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946', is based on her prize-winning doctoral dissertation and will be published by the 'Modern Jewish Experience' series at Indiana University Press in 2023.

Pascale Falek works since 2020 as Policy Officer at the European Commission, DG Justice, in the team of Katharina von Schnurbein, European Coordinator for combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life. She worked at the Jewish Museum of Belgium, as Curator and then Director from 2014 to 2020. She organized several art and historical exhibitions, initiated intercultural and educational projects. From 2011 to 2014, she worked at the Belgian State Archives as research project manager and co-edited with Gertjan Desmet, under the direction of Pierre-Alain Tallier, Sources pour l'histoire des populations juives et du judaïsme en Belgique, 19e-20e siècles. She obtained a Master degree in Contemporary History (Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2003), a MSt in Jewish Studies (Oxford University, 2004), a MA in European Studies (College of Europe, Natolin - Warsaw, 2005), and a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute (Florence, 2011).

Ana Gallego is the Director-General for Justice and Consumers at the European Commission since November 2021. Before joining the European Commission she was Director-General of International Legal Cooperation and Human Rights in the Ministry of Justice in Spain. She has a degree in law from the University of Granada, Spain and studies in Translation and Interpretation from the same university.