Magnus Ag
Magnus Ag is the Public Interest Tech Adviser at International Media Support (IMS) where he leads the Public Interest Tech Programme. He is a human rights advocate, journalist, researcher and the founder of Bridge Figures (a human rights project in a data-driven world). He is an board member for the Global Network Initiative (GNI) and serves as an adviser to Columbia University’s signature research project The Politics of Visual Art in a Changing World and to Avant-Garde Lawyers. He previously lived in Hong Kong for two years, writing about the 2019 pro-democracy protests for leading international publications and has contributed both as a co-curator and author on China and other topics to the Disruption Network Lab in Berlin. He has spent more than a decade defending the right to freedom of expression including the right to artistic freedom for Copenhagen-based Freemuse and as the Assistant Advocacy Director for the Committee to Protect Journalists during five years in New York.
Gulnara Akhundova
Gulnara Akhundova is Head of IMS’ Global Response Department and a human rights defender with wide-ranging international advocacy expertise. She specialises in Eurasia politics, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Central Asia, Georgia, Russia, Turkey, international human rights law, Council of Europe & UN Human Rights Council. Akhundova has contributed stories on violations of press freedom to a number of international media outlets, including French Liberation, the Independent, and Huffington Post.
Mohamed al Hani
Mohamed al Hani is the project coordinator in the Yemen program. Mohamed is a specialist in radio journalism and has participated in the capacity building and development of several media/journalists, particularly in the MENA region.
He has also been a trainer of media trainers and trainer for civil society actors and journalists in campaigning for social change in the same region in addition to the region of sub-Saharan Africa such as Rwanda, Somalia and Sudan.
Mohamed did his graduate studies at the Sorbonne Paris I Panthéon and began his career as a journalist as a presenter at radio Monte Carlo Doualiya in Paris, journalist collaborating at Euronews Lyon then editor in chief in Tunisian media after the advent of the revolution of 2011.
He is sensitive to the question of the relationship between journalism and peace building in the context of conflicts/post-conflict and to the question of the real pluralism (and not of facade) of media expressions as a factor for the success of democratic transition processes.
