Speakers

Journalist. Head of Desalambre, a human rights and migration section of elDiario.es. She covers immigration policy and its consequences. She has written about migratory movements and refugees from Morocco, South Sudan, Mexico, Honduras, Cameroon, the Central Mediterranean or the Spanish southern border, among others. She previously worked for El Mundo, Expansión and Onda Cero.

Spanish data and investigative journalist. He´s currently deputy director at infoLibre and president and founding member of the Association of Investigative Journalists of Spain.

He was previously deputy director and head of investigation at Público newspaper, and deputy director and co-founder of Maldita.es, a media outlet specialized in fact-checking that won the European Press Prize in 2021. He also worked as an investigative journalist and data coordinator at La Sexta, where he participated in the Falciani list publication in Spain and was part of the team that carried out the international investigations of the Panama Papers, awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2017. That investigation won him the Best Journalist of the Year Award from the Madrid Press Association that same year. Likewise, he carried out Bahamas Leaks and Paradise Papers investigations, among others. Between 2015 and 2024 he was a professor at the University Rey Juan Carlos.

Researcher specialized in migrations. Impact Manager in IrpiMedia (Italy) and Digital Technologies Research Consultant at International Detention Coalition. She works with public interest journalism newsrooms and with human rights organizations, advising them on strategy and impact, as well as conducting tech policy research and analysis, focusing on the impact of technology on society and human rights.

Napolitano is the author of the study ´Artificial Intelligence: the New Frontier of the EU’s Border Externalisation Strategy´ (2023) and co-author of ´Digital Identity in the Migration & Refugee Context´, on the challenges of continually collecting identity data from migrants & refugees.

Most recently, she has worked as Senior Policy Officer and Network Coordinator at Privacy International (PI), a global civil liberties organisation that challenges surveillance practices by governments and companies. Prior to that, she developed and lead PI’s work on migration and tech treats, with a focus on the UK and the EU.

She´s a contributor to magazines and online outlets, and a public speaker at conferences such as Personal Democracy Forum, the International Festival of Journalism, Re:publica, State of the Net.

The Guardian’s West Africa correspondent, based in Ivory Coast. A Nigerian journalist, writer and filmmaker, he specializes on coverage of conflict, disaster, politics, culture, human identity and girl child rights. He is known mostly for his work on the Boko Haram insurgency and reporting on intersection between culture and other conflicts in West and Central Africa.

He worked at Thompson Reuters Foundation and was a reporter and then Africa Editor for Al Jazeera English. His works also appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Financial Times, Times of London and Forbes Africa, among others.

He reported from the Peruvian Amazon, Djibouti, Guinea, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Cameroon, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Benin, Niger, and Nigeria. He was visiting lecturer and researcher at Malmo University, Sweden; and delivered lectures at universities in Copenhagen, Växjö, and New York.

Freelance investigative journalist and foreign correspondent in Africa. He covers human rights, conflict and foreign affairs stories in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. This Romanian journalist based in Dakar published his works in Lighthouse Reports, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, The Associated Press, The Washington Post, El País, Der Spiegel and other media outlets. 

He investigated violent and illegal deportations, known as ‘pushbacks’, at the European Union’s external borders, the EU funding helping North African governments dump migrants in the Sahara Desert, as well as the lack of human rights safeguards for EU externalization policies in Senegal and West Africa. He also published an investigation with Al Jazeera and porCausa exposing how an elite EU-funded unit violently repressed pro-democracy protests using vehicles sent by Spain for migration control and counter terrorism purposes.

He has reported from Palestine, Israel, Senegal, The Gambia, Lebanon, Chad, Moldova, Serbia and Mauritania, among other countries. His investigations were recognized with several international awards, including the European Press Prize Migration Journalism Award, the Jan Kuciak Investigative Journalism Award.

Spanish freelance journalist living in Senegal since 2011, contributor to the newspaper El País for West Africa, as well as to the magazine Mundo Negro and Radio y Televisión Canaria. He covered the Mali war, Ebola epidemics in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Boko Haram conflict in Chad, Niger and Nigeria, terrorism in the Sahel, African migration routes in countries such as Senegal, Mali, Niger and Mauritania, political transition in The Gambia and coups d’état in Mali and Guinea-Bissau, among other topics.

He´s author of the books ‘Canoes’ (2006) and ‘Kolda’s Invisibles’ (2009) on African migrations to Spain and ‘The river that defies the desert’ (2019), a collection of chronicles. In 2022, he won the Boreal Prize and an Africa Mundi Award as the best correspondent in Africa. His journalistic career was recognized in 2021 with the Joan Gomis Memorial Solidarity Award. He has also won the Father Arrupe Human Rights Award 2021, the Mumes Award 2020, and the Saliou Traoré Prize for Journalism in Spanish on Africa 2019, among others.

Journalist covering 22 West and Central Africa countries for Associated Press. She is based in Dakar, Senegal. She previously worked for The New York Times, covering the European Union institutions with a focus on the rule of law and migration, and reporting from Eastern Europe on the crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border, among other topics. As a freelancer, she pitched and wrote stories on global social and political issues, human rights, migration and the European Union for The Guardian and POLITICO. She also covered Poland for Financial Times.

Award-winning photojournalist and documentary filmmaker with extensive experience of investigating violations of the human rights of migrants. Over the past years, she documented on-the-ground conditions in forced migration situations, border crisis and cultures in transition.

Her works have been published in the BBC, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, Euronews, ARTE, ZDF, The New Humanitarian and others, and have been recognized at numerous festivals across Europe and beyond.

She has been working in the field with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in humanitarian contexts like Libya, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo and Bangladesh. In 2016, as part of MSF’s campaign to highlight the deadly routes refugees and migrants are taking to Europe, she spent 4 months on a search and rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea.

Her works include ´Libya: No Escape from Hell´ (ARTE), where she delved into the violent logic of migrants detention and disappearance, ´The Battle for the Nile´, a filmic journey along contested waters in Ethiopia and Egypt, and ´Death on the Border´ (BBC Africa Eye), a forensic visual investigation into the massacre at the border of Melilla (Spain) and Nador (Morocco).

Senior reporter at the Guardian covering international politics, inequality and human rights.

He has worked for The Guardian and The Observer for almost 25 years, covering many of the world’s major stories and conflict zones, most recently Sudan. His work has been recognized by multiple awards. His coverage of suicide in EU migrant deportation centers, among other topics, made him the News Reporter of the Year at the Society of Editors Press Awards (2017). He also won the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils. 

Most recently he was the runner up of the 2025 European Press Prize and the 2025 Orwell Journalism Prize for his investigation ‘The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded and UK-backed forces in Tunisia’, along with his pieces on conflict in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

He´s the author of ‘No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made’, a book that provides a unique insight into a hidden Britain and is based on true events around youth radicalization.

Spanish journalist. Since 2016 she is the coordinator of Pikara Magazine, a Spanish digital magazine pioneer in the dissemination of feminist theory and practice. She is co-creator of Desplazados.org, a journalistic project that focuses on movement as a virtue. She is a specialist in international information and has a master’s degree in Globalization and Development. Co-author of the book ´Memorias Ahogadas´ (´Drowned Memories´), an immersion into the stories of those who, in various parts of Spain, had to leave their lives behind due to the construction of a dam.

Her works have been published in El País, eldiario.es, Público, El Confidencial, Tiempo, Cambio 16, La Marea, Otramérica, ABC and other media outlets. She has also co-authored the books ‘Climate emergency’ (2021) and ‘Drowned Memories’ (2024).  Her journalistic career was recognized with the Joan Gomis Award.

A Senegalese journalist specializing in migration and justice. After a 13-year career, in 2023 she left her position at Senegal’s largest private group (Groupe Futurs Médias) to make a documentary on irregular migration, conducting research in Senegal, Spain and France.

Passionate about research and reporting, she has traveled throughout Senegal and other African and European countries, including the island of Lampedusa (Italy), one of the arrival points for migrant boats and a large marine cemetery.

In her documentary series ´In the Footsteps of the Migrant´, Ndiaye investigates the Canary Islands route, addressing the reasons that lead people to migrate and the dangers they face along the way (2024), the reality upon their arrival in the Canary Islands (2025), and finally their life in Europe (still in progress).

Researcher at the Delàs Center for Peace Studies and the Observatory for Human Rights and Business in the Mediterranean. She´s PhD in Public Policies and International Relations and political scientist specializing in the Mediterranean region. She has worked in development cooperation with social and human rights networks and movements in several countries in North Africa and the Middle East. Her focus is on the role of militarism in North Africa and the Middle East. She is an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Blanquerna – University Ramon Llull.

She´s the co-author of the report ´Mass Surveillance in the Maghreb and Mashreq: a critical analysis to protect civil society´ (2024), an analysis of how governments and companies of these regions use advanced digital surveillance technologies to control and repress civil society, with disproportionate impact on migrants and other groups.

Photographer, documentary filmmaker and journalist, co-founder of Yemayá Journal, a media outlet that narrates migration processes and human rights violations from an intersectional gender perspective.

She has written about migration from the women´s point of view, pushbacks on the border between Greece and North Macedonia, and other international issues. Her works have been published in El País, Diari ARA, Público, CTXT, El Salto, among other media outlets.

Journalist, co-founder and editor-in-chief of 5W magazine. She has addressed the dynamics of migrant trafficking in Libya and the legal implications of ´pushbacks´ in the European Union. She is the co-author of the documentary The Gourougou Trial (2022), which follows the trial against Spain in the European Court of Human Rights for pushbacks at its border with Morocco.

She has spent much of her career in Asia, where she worked for a decade in the Philippines, India, and Japan as a correspondent for EFE news agency. From the Tokyo office, which she headed from June 2011 until her return to Spain in 2013, she covered the aftermath of the tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear crisis. She also worked on social and environmental issues, including the impact of pollution in Asian megacities. She has been a correspondent in Rome and published her works in media outlets such as El Periódico de Catalunya.

Journalist specialized in religious and social affairs, editor-in-chief of Alfa y Omega, a Catholic weekly news magazine. She has also been publishing her works in Cadena COPE and Trece for the past decade. She was in charge of the Master’s Degree in Social Journalism at CEU – San Pablo University and has worked in countries such as Nicaragua, Peru, and Malawi, as well as on the border between Slovakia and Ukraine.

She has been a news editor at Popular TV, a contributor to the weekly magazine Alba, a member of the Media Delegation of the Archdiocese of Madrid, director of the Communication Department of the Altius Foundation-Francisco de Vitoria University, and head of communication and volunteering at the Hispanic-Central American Center, as well as editor-in-chief of the annual magazine of the Madrid Food Bank, before joining Alfa y Omega in February 2010.

She received the Manos Unidas Journalism Award in 2011, the Lolo Award for Young Journalists in 2015, and the Ángel Herrera Oria Journalism Award in 2021.

Syrian journalist and refugee in Spain. Co-founder of Baynana.es, the first Spanish and Arabic media outlet run by refugee journalists in Spain. He has been covering the war in Syria since he was 17 years old. He has experience in research and fact-checking.

He has collaborated with Spanish and international media outlets such as The Guardian, El País, eldiario.es, Al Jazeera, Maldita.es, The New Humanitarian, and 5W, specializing particularly on issues related to Syria and migration along the Mediterranean route.

Venezuelan investigative journalist based in Madrid. Her work focuses on migration and human rights and has been published in media outlets such as Público and El Confidencial. Since 2021, she has been collaborating with the porCausa Foundation, investigating the migration control industry and border externalization. In 2024, she was a guest contributor to the Pulitzer Center.

She has covered the stories of the Melilla massacre survivors and the criminalization of migration along the Mediterranean route, as well as the transfer of technology and equipment from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ international cooperation agency to African regimes to curb migration to Europe, among other topics.

Expert on poverty and development. Head of Research and co-founder at porCausa Foundation and Policy and Development Director at Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal). Editor of El País’ 3.500 Millones blog.

Previously, he was Director of Research and Senior Strategic Advisor at Intermón Oxfam and Oxfam International. He has published numerous analyses in the fields of global health, international migration, food security, trade and development aid.

A freelance journalist based in Madrid, she conducts research at the porCausa Foundation. Her work focuses on Africa, migration routes, the migration control industry, and human rights. She is also a guest contributor to the Pulitzer Center and was awarded the Africa Mundi Prize for Best Junior Journalist. She has previously worked at La Sexta Noticias and eldiario.es.