The meeting is organised to discuss strategic and operational issues facing BIRN, ongoing programmes and plans for the future.
The Steering Board is composed of BIRN country directors. Each board member will make a presentation about country specifics and fundraising activities.
The Assembly brings together Tim Judah, author and Balkans correspondent for The Economist, Wolfgang Petritsch, Austria’s permanent representative to the OECD, Steve Crawshaw, international advocacy director at Amnesty International, Stefan Lehne, former Austrian diplomat and visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, and Per Bymon, secretary-general of Swedish Radio and Television’s humanitarian foundation, Radiohjälpen.