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EIN seminar on
Fake news and
Electoral Campaigns
6th March 2019
Vademecum
of the speakers
EIN seminar on:
Fake news and Electoral Campaigns
6th March 2019
Vademecum of the speakers
David ALANDETE
Executive level editor, Journalist and Writer
Executive level editor, journalist, and writer. Extensive experience in digital
disruption and research of disinformation and fake news. Responsible
for breaking the news of Russian meddling in the Catalan referendum in
Spain. More than 20 years working as a foreign correspondent in America
and the Middle East, as well as editing newspapers both in print and online.
Possesses a carefully curated rolodex of trusted international sources on
every continent in intelligence communities, governments, NGOs and
business sector. Besides his executive duties, as a managing editor Alandete
assembled and led an investigative team that covered the Russian meddling
campaign in the Catalan independence crisis and the Italian elections, among
other governance crises. He introduced tools to combine data mining, data
brokerage, and data analysis for strategic reporting on politics. He has
interviewed Syrian president Bashar al Assad, Israel’s president Shimon
Peres, Ukraine’s president Petró Poroshenko, writer David Grossman,
Greece’s minister Yanis Varoufakis, Vogue’s editor Anna Wintour and many
other world leaders and businesspeople. Alandete has served as the El País
liaison with the Leading European Newspaper Association, with regular
contacts and coordination with media such as Die Welt, La Repubblica,
Le Figaro and Gazeta Wyborcza. He has also been a frequent speaker in
conferences on misinformation organised by the European Parliament and
Commission; the European Values Think Tank, and the Atlantic Governance
Institute, among others. From 2006 to 2012, Alandete was one of the El País’s
US correspondents at their Washington bureau. He covered two presidential
campaigns and was an accredited journalist in the State Department, the
Pentagon and Congress. In 2011, he travelled to Kabul to report on the 10th
anniversary of the military operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
He also visited the detention camp in the Guantanamo Naval Base to cover
the detainees’ trials. As a Middle East Bureau Chief between 2013 and 2014,
Alandete did extensive fieldwork in Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Palestinian
territories, Jordan and Egypt. He served as a war zone envoy and covered the
Syrian war and the Egyptian coup d’état in 2013. He graduated from George
Washington University in 2006 with a Masters in International Policy and
Practice, thanks to a Fulbright fellowship. Previously he had worked in radio
and television. In 2001, he graduated from the El País School of Journalism,
where he obtained his first Master’s degree, in journalism. In 2000, he
graduated cum laude in Media Studies from the University of Valencia after
receiving the Exceptional Career award.
EIN seminar on:
Fake news and Electoral Campaigns
6th March 2019
Vademecum of the speakers
Adeline BRION
Programme Coordinator, Lie Detectors
Adeline Brion is Lie Detectors Belgium programme coordinator. Lie Detectors
is a non-profit that connects journalists, children and news literacy in the
fight against disinformation and for critical thinking. Adeline’s current work
includes the coordination and implementation of successful journalist
training workshops and classroom sessions in Belgium while keeping an eye
on developments in the field of media literacy at the national and European
level. She is passionate about empowering people to make choices on
reliable information end be actively aware of bias.
Paolo CESARINI
Head of Unit responsible for media convergence and social media,
DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology, EC
Paolo Cesarini is Head of the Unit responsible for media convergence and
social media within DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology at
the European Commission. He previously held other management positions
in the Commission, namely in DG Competition where he was responsible
for antitrust policy and enforcement in the media, consumer goods, basic
industries, agricultural and manufacturing sectors (from 2001 until 2010), and
for State aid policy in the areas of R&D&I, risk finance and environment (from
2011 until 2016). Previous assignments include work as a legal officer at the
Legal Service of the International Labour Organization in Geneva (Switzerland)
and as a researcher at the Institute for Public and International Law of Siena
University. He obtained a master degree in international law at the University
of Siena (Italy) and an LLM in EU law at the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium).
During the last ten years, he has also been teaching EU competition law as
visiting professor at Siena University, and as lecturer at Montpellier University.
EIN seminar on:
Fake news and Electoral Campaigns
6th March 2019
Vademecum of the speakers
Daniel FARACI
Director, Grassroots Political Consulting
From the onset of Daniels’ education and political career, he was able to
volunteer on many local, state, and federal campaigns across the United
States. Those opportunities spurred his successful educational background
at Baylor University, where he earned a BA in International Relations and
an MPPA in Public Policy and Administration. During his education, he was
actively involved in various community and civic organizations, employment
with a national Political Action Committee, travel twice with Baylor’s Turkey/
Greece international study programs and other significant political projects
as well. Daniel Faraci’s employment experience has been with consulting
and managing local, state, and federal campaigns, grassroots and coalitions-
based advocacy and lobbying on Capitol Hill and in California, Florida
and Arizona for a national small business trade association, and other
entrepreneurial and humanitarian-affiliated projects as well. His career
also included serving in the intelligence community in counterterrorism
operations and investigations with NCIS. Based upon these diverse
experiences, he continues to enhance his capabilities in management
and strategic consulting of U.S. House, Senate and Presidential political
campaigns across the United States, as well as in the Middle East region.
Simultaneously, he has spent a few years teaching Political Science, History,
and Criminal Justice/Homeland Security at the University level. In addition,
he has attained further expertise by transforming his career to successfully
federal and state-based lobbying in health care, tax, finance and economic
development issues representing both domestic and international clients for
over a decade. Daniel Faraci currently serves as the Director of Grassroots
Political Consulting LLC (www.grassrootspc.com), serves on the Board of
the European Centre for the Study of Extremism at Cambridge University
(UK) (www.eurocse.org) and is a part time Professor at BAU International
University.
EIN seminar on:
Fake news and Electoral Campaigns
6th March 2019
Vademecum of the speakers
Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ MEP
Secretary General of the European People’s Party (EPP)
Antonio López-Istúriz White is Secretary General of the European People’s
Party (EPP) and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), representing
the Spanish centre-right People’s Party (Partido Popular). He is also Secretary
Treasurer of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies (WMCES) and
the Secretary-General of the Centrist Democrat International (IDC-CDI).
López-Istúriz White has been in Brussels since 1997, when he worked as
an assistant to the People’s Party delegation at the European Parliament.
He held this position until 1999, when he was called by then-President of
the Spanish Government José María Aznar to become his personal advisor
for almost four years. In 2002, he returned to Brussels upon his election as
Secretary General of the European People’s Party. Two years later, he was
elected on his party’s list as MEP, and he has held both offices since then.
In January 2008, López-Istúriz White was elected Secretary Treasurer of the
Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.
He currently sits on the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market
and Consumer Protection and is a substitute on the European Parliament’s
Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Security and Defence.
López-Istúriz White is also a Member of the Delegation for relations with the
United States, the Delegation for relations with Israel and the Delegation to
the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean. Antonio
López-Istúriz White is also President of the European Union-United Arab
Emirates (UAE) Parliamentary Friendship Group.
López-Istúriz White is a recipient of the 2013 Parliamentarian Prize
Eurodiputado del Año (MEP of the Year) awarded by the Asociación
de Periodistas Parlamentarios (Spanish Parliamentarian Journalists
Association).
He holds a bachelor degree in Law and studies in Economics. In addition to
Spanish, he speaks English, French, Italian and Mallorquin. He is married
and has two daughters.
EIN seminar on:
Fake news and Electoral Campaigns
6th March 2019
Vademecum of the speakers
Paulo RANGEL MEP
Vice-Chairman of the EPP party, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group in
the European Parliament, EIN Chairman
Paulo Rangel is a Member of the European Parliament since 2009 and vice-chairman
of the EPP Group, responsible for the EPP’s think tank, European Ideas Network.
Since 2015, Mr. Rangel is also vice-chairman of the EPP. Member of the
Constitutional Affairs Committee and member of the Delegation to the
ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, Mr. Rangel is as well Head of the
Portuguese PSD Delegation and Administrator of the Robert Schuman
Foundation, since 2009. Former Member of the Portuguese Parliament, on
the 10th legislature, Mr. Rangel was the Chairman of PSD parliamentary
group in 2008-2009. Prior to this, Paulo Rangel was Deputy Secretary of
State in the Ministry of Justice under the 16th constitutional government.
Law graduate, by the Catholic University of Oporto, Mr. Rangel has a attended
a master degree in juridical-political sciences, by the University of Coimbra, and
attended a Doctorate in Public Law, by the Law faculty of Nova University of Lisbon.
Lecturer in the Law Faculty of the Law Faculty of the Portuguese Catholic
University and lecturer of the MBA in the Porto Business School.
Mr Rangel is a member of the board of directors of the Porto Trade Association,
chairman of the General Assembly of RAR Group and regular commentator
in various branches of media. Mr. Rangel has made many speeches and
lectures, scholarly articles and books on legal, political and constitutional
issues, including Repensar o Poder Judical, Publicações Universidade Católica,
2001, O Estado do Estado, D. Quixote, 2009. Research work: with the DAAD in
Frankfurt, with the European Institute in Florence, the University of Osnabrück,
the University of Upsala, the University of Lausanne, the University of Bologna,
the University of Genoa and the University of Freiburg. Awarded the Grosse
Verdienstkreuz mit Stern by the Federal Republic of German (2009); the Council
of Europe’s René Cassin Prize (1989); the D. António Ferreira Gomes Prize (1986).EIN seminar on:
Fake news and Electoral Campaigns
6th March 2019
Vademecum of the speakers
Wout van WIJK
Executive Director, News Media Europe
Wout van Wijk is Executive Director at News Media Europe, representing
over 2200 news brands throughout Europe. Prior to this, he worked with
the Brussels office of Huawei Technologies, leading their public outreach
on Cyber Security and Data Privacy. Wout also worked with the European
Commission on Trust and Security related policy and research. He started
his career with the trade association of Europe’s direct marketing industry,
FEDMA.
Wout holds an Msc in Communication Studies from the Twente University,
The Netherlands and an MA in European Public Affairs from Maastricht
University, The Netherlands.Network centre in the EPP Group secretariat
EIN team:
Guillermo Martinez Casañ
Network Director
Tel.: +32 2 283 1456
Fax: +32 2 283 1257
Email:guillermo.martinezcasan@ep.europa.eu
Mafalda Castro de Sousa
EIN Policy Coordinator
Tel.: +32 2 283 0659
Email: mafalda.castrodesousa@ep.europa.eu
Pascaline Raffegeau
Publications coordinator
Tel: +32 2 284 32 94
Email: pascale.raffegeau@ep.europa.eu
Véronique De Jonghe
Publications layout
Tel: +32 2 284 22 99
Email: veronique.dejonghe@ep.europa.euPublished by: Publications Unit
Directorate for Press and Communications
EPP Group in the European Parliament
Editor: Pedro López de Pablo
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