Nataliia Lutsenko, 33, is an anchor at the international desk of the ICTV Station in Kyiv, Ukraine, received by 57 percent of the population. She covered the Russian invasion for both ICTV and India’s NDTV channel, as well as European Union summits, the Venice Biennale, the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Munich Security Conference and the Yalta European Strategy. Her honors include a 2016 selection for the US World Press Institute and acceptance in the 2015 BBC Workshop. Her unusual hobbies range from boxing, swimming, singing, choreography and guitar.  She is a graduate of the Mohyla Academy, University of Kyiv with a master’s degree in journalism.

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Veronika Melkozerova, 31, is a freelance journalist based in Kyiv, Ukraine.  She is an executive editor of The New Voice of Ukraine, an independent English-language news source. Melkozerova has contributed to NBC News, Vice, the New York Times, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic among others. She also previously contributed to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a network of investigative journalists on six continents. In 2021 she won the “Ukrainian Honor of Professional Journalism” award for the best breaking news story- “A Tale of Two Mothers” for NBC News.  She has a master’s degree in screenwriting from the Ivan Karpenko-Kary National University of Cinema, Theater, and Television in Kyiv.

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Kourosh Ziabari, 32, is an award-winning journalist and correspondent with the Hong-Kong-based Asia Times, from Rasht, Iran, covering politics, economy, society and culture. His reports carry first-hand accounts by Iranian sources and internationally based experts. He writes for Foreign Policy, Al-Monitor, The National Interest, The New Arab, Middle East Institute and others. He is an awardee of the Chevening Scholarship by the UK’s Foreign Office. He won a prestigious World Press Institute fellowship in the United States in 2022. Among the dozens of dignitaries he has interviewed are: Vicente Fox, Jose Ramos-Horta, F.W. de Klerk, Mario Soares, Hans Blix, Steve Adler, Noam Chomsky, Frank Wisner, Kristalina Georgieva and Keith Ellison.

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Chadi Abdel Sater, 30, is a Lebanese journalist and news editor at The Middle East newspaper, and former journalist at Nidaa Al atan newspaper in Beirut. He edited and investigated stories through contacts and media sources, and interviews.  He produced articles on women’s rights, and geopolitical issues, among others. Fluent in English, Arabic and French, his publicized thesis is Stances of the Correspondance d’Orient Magazine on Syrian and Lebanese issues (1908-1945).Chadi also taught history in high schools. He has a PhD degree (with distinction) in contemporary history and international relations, and a history teacher’s diploma, both from the Lebanese University.

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