Category: Trainers and panelists

Mr. Zlatev has completed a number of trainings and has obtained qualifications in political communication, media relations, journalism training, international PR, European Union communications, election campaigning, and media development.

He currently works as Managing Director of the Media Development Center in Bulgaria. The organisation was established in 1998 to promote the development of independent media in Bulgaria, to foster media capacity building and to boost networking and cross-border cooperation in Southeast Europe.

He is a founding member and board member of the South East European Network for Professionalization of the Media (SEENPM), which currently includes fifteen media centers and institutes from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia. From 2002 to 2004 he was the president of the organization.

Ognian Zlatev also works as an external communications and public outreach consultant for the World Bank Office in Bulgaria and as a media expert for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and UNESCO.

He has been a lecturer at the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Albanian Media Institute in Tirana and Media Plan Institute in Sarajevo, as well as a speaker at numerous international conferences in Southeast Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

He has worked as director of Information Centres for the Open Society Institute in Sofia,  manager of the BBC Centre in Bulgaria and an exchange officer at the British Council office in Bulgaria.

Ognian Zlatev is a board member of the National Council for Journalism Ethics of Bulgaria. He sits on the steering committee of the Global Forum for Media Development and on the Board of SEENPM. He is a member of the selection committee of the annual Robert Schumann Award of the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria and of the Dr. Erhard Busek SEEMO Award for Better Understanding.

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As the internet grew in significance, Paul was able to blend his technical knowledge of the medium with the realities of his work in the BBC. As a result, he was able to devise many groundbreaking techniques and strategies that continue to shape the way journalists conduct online research and investigation.

Paul heads up BBC Academy’s Investigative Hub project. This sees him work within program teams, solving issues related to investigation whilst sharing vital new skills with those he works with. Paul will source experts in diverse fields as required.

He also manages and delivers training related to various related areas such as online research, business research, due diligence, people research, data journalism and analysis, reporting of statistics, social media investigation, digital security, saving and verifying evidence, digital photography, web design and image production.

Paul’s techniques have helped his colleagues develop creative approaches to research , conduct their investigations securely and have lead many journalists to information they would never have otherwise been able to find.

He has worked with leading programmes like Panorama, Watchdog, national news bulletins, BBC Online, local & national radio and the World Service. He is also a regular blogger on the BBC College of Journalism website.

He has also helped train personnel from The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Times, the Financial Tine, Channel 4, CNN, the World Bank and the UNDP.

Away from his training & consultancy work, Paul does a lot of Photography and is building up a large library of stock photos. Enquire for details.

Her favorite topics are secret archives of the Cold War era, shadow affairs and corruption, money laundering, suspicious ownership and property. Recently she has also been acitive in finding separated families from all over the World and reuniting them.
Since 1998 she has sent about 700 FOIA requests to 10 US institutions to ask for declassification of documents from the Cold War Era. In parallel she continues her work in the Bulgarian Secret Archives from the same time.

Alexenia has just finished her fourth book based on using the FOIA. She is the author of 3 other books: ‘The Iron Fist’ (2005, London – in English), ‘The War of the Spies’ (2005), and ‘The King’s Secret Files’ (2009), which became bestsellers in Bulgaria.

She is trainer on investigative journalism and access to information certified by South East European Network for Professionalization of the Media (SEENPM). Since 2003 she has been training mid career journalists in Bulgaria and around the World.

Alexenia is a visiting lecturer in investigative journalism at Sofia University, and a researcher and team member for various international media projects.

She was also was the local trainer on investigative journalism in a 3 year project run by BBC preceding the implementation of the media Self-regulation and the Code of Ethics in Bulgaria.
Between 2005 and 2009 she was  a member of the Bulgarian Press Complaint Commission.

In November 2004 she received the most prestigious Award for investigative journalism in Bulgaria, having been nominated for the same Award for 2003. In 2006 she received the Golden Key Award – for using FOIAs both in Bulgaria and the USA.

Dimitrova has 2 university degrees from Sofia University and post graduate fellowships  in the World Press Institute – Minneapolis, in the University of Missouri, the University of Minneapolis (USA), Reuters (UK), Archus School of Journalism (Denmark), and the European Center for Journalism (Maastricht).

She has addressed seminars and other events of investigative journalism in Bulgaria, Switzerland, Denmark, Croatia, Netherlands, Moldova, Armenia, Slovenia, Germany, Bosnia, Albania, Azerbaijan, Canada, Turkey, Norway and Poland.
She is a member of Union of Bulgarian Journalists, the Investigative Journalists Association – Bulgaria, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South East European Media Organization (SEEMO).

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She has headed the organization sincefrom 2001 and before that worked as the head of criminal police directorate’s department for organised crime groups in Ljubljana.

From 1991 onwards, Popovic has been holding regular training in the field of organised crime and human trafficking, and is was the author of several publications on the subject.

During her work with Society Kljuc, Popovic established an emergency hotline, safe houses and other important help forvictims.

She also set up and implemented a programme for primary and secondary schools on the prevention of human trafficking.

Popovic has trained judges in human trafficking issues through the justice ministry’s judicial school and has trained education professionals after being appointed by the education ministry to Ljubljana city municipality’s committee for children’s rights.

He started researching the Ukrainian conflict in the summer 2014 and began contributing to Bellingcat. in September 2014 he discovered that the Buk missile launcher used to down flight MH17 came from Russia and was able to find the military unit that it belonged to. He was one of the Bellingcat MH17 investigation team that produced report on the origin of the Separatists’ Buk and has continued to work on subsequent Bellingcat projects on the war in Ukraine. He is also currently working and providing training with the OCCRP, focusing on using open source information to investigate crime and corruption. Presently he is studying Law at the University of York.

He has won eleven major journalism prizes, and was most recently awarded the prestigious Reporter of the Year Prize at the British Press Awards in 2014 and the European Press Prize in 2013. He is the co-author of ‘Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police’ and has presented TV documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and Al-Jazeera.

In his previous role as Special Projects Editor, Paul ran high-profile investigations and led led Reading the Riots, the landmark research study into the causes and consequences of the England riots. He is currently co-writing a book on the riots. He lectures across Europe about the use of social media in journalism and teaches a masterclass in investigative reporting.

Paul joined the Guardian as a trainee is 2005 after studying at Cambridge University and Harvard University. He lives in Washington. You can watch his 2010 TED talk here.

Graduated from Faculty of Philology, Belgrade University in 2001. Have been at Ringier since 2004, started from Marketing, through Business development and Publishing management till becoming general manager of all Ringier activities in Serbia in 2008. Previous working expertise in sales and FMCG.

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Milorad has also worked as a correspondent for the the French news agency EPN and has had articles published in such international newspapers as The Sunday Times in the UK, El Mundo in Spain, Der Standard in Austria and the Washington times.

Milorad produced Hidden Wounds, a documentary film on post-traumatic stress disorder which was made in co-operation with the BBC.

His investigations have included work on human trafficking (in association with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting),  the employment of Balkan mercenaries by British and US security firms in Iraq, and arms trafficking from Ukraine into Serbia.

In 2007 Milorad was selected for the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence.