Rana Ayyub is a multi-award winning Indian investigative journalist, Washington Post columnist and author of Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up. She was previously an editor with Tehelka, an Indian investigative magazine. She has reported on religious violence, extrajudicial killings by the state and insurgency.

Rana will now be joining online.

Carole Cadwalladr is a journalist for the Guardian and Observer in the United Kingdom. She worked for a year with whistleblower Christopher Wylie to publish her investigation into Cambridge Analytica, which she shared with the New York Times. The investigation resulted in Mark Zuckerberg being called before Congress and Facebook losing more than $100 billion from its share price. She has also uncovered multiple crimes committed during the European referendum and evidence of Russian interference in Brexit.

Nigerian investigative journalist Kiki Mordi spent a year producing an award-winning BBC Africa Eye documentary on sexual harassment in education, and as a result experienced severe online harassment herself.

International human rights lawyer with Doughty Street Chambers, focused on media freedom and the safety of journalists. Her clients include Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa, the family of slain Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, and hundreds of BBC Persian service journalists.

Julie Posetti is Deputy Vice President and Global Director of Research at the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). She is an internationally published journalist and researcher who is academically affiliated with the University of Oxford (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism), and the University of Sheffield (Centre for Freedom of the Media). She is the author of Protecting Journalism Sources in the Digital Age (UNESCO, 2017) and lead author of the UN-commissioned study The Chilling.