Dr. Noemi Mena Montes. Spanish journalist with a PhD in Political Communication. She is a media lecturer-researcher, a consultant on political communication and expert on immigration.  In the past, Noemi Mena has been working as a radio journalist, freelance correspondent and researcher in the Middle East. She has had several research grants for international projects and won an award for migration studies in Spain. 

Dr. Justin Kagin, Founder and director of EDI. Founder and CEO of Kagin’s Consulting, a consulting firm helping to alleviate poverty worldwide, www.kaginsconsulting.com. PhD in agriculture and resource economics at the University of California at Davis. 

Trineke Palm is director of a christian political think tank in the Netherlands and lecturer at Utrecht University. In 2017 she defended her PhD research on the development of the EU's security and defence policy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and subsequently broadened and deepened her expertise on European integration and defence at Utrecht University and the Netherlands Defence Academy.

Jacques Bazen is senior lecturer in Innovative Entrepreneurship and International Economics at Saxion University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands, with over 25 years of teaching experience. Besides teaching, he also works as researcher in Regional Economic Development, always looking for ways and strategies to support and benefit both businesses and governments. He has been specifically working on projects in Central and Eastern Europe in education and business development, as well as civil society development. Jacques has also been serving as Treasurer on the board of the ECPP, ensuring the compliance of the party's projects and activities and financial transparency of managing public funding.

Márton Gyöngyösi is a former Member of European Parliament on behalf of ECPM and Jobbik Conservatives Hungary. As the son of trade diplomats, Gyöngyösi grew up in the Middle East and Asia. He studied economics and political science in Ireland and Germany and worked as a corporate tax consultant for KPMG and Ernst & Young. Mr. Gyöngyösi was elected and served for two mandates in the Hungarian Parliament and for one mandate in the European Parliament. While in the EP, he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a substitute member of the International Trade Committee. He is deeply committed to diplomatic work and to promoting truth and transparency in politics.

Dr. Josip Lucev holds a PhD degree in Political Science from the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. and an M.A. degree in Social Policy from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. He delivered lectures as an external associate in courses on “Political Economy“, “Global and Comparative Political Economy“ and “Development Policies“ at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. He works at the Faculty of Political Science at Zagreb University.

Igor Mateski is a business owner, graduate of theology, and passionate about the Faith and Works movement. Together with his wife, Monika, started WebMaxFormance, a full-service digital agency for small and mid-sized businesses helping them modernize their websites, improve their messaging, and gain significant growth, resulting in over $350M in for-profit revenue and over $120M in donations for various NGOs. He's active with Leader Impact since the very beginning, and this is slowly but surely becoming his primary focus. He enjoys reading books on business growth, personal growth, theology, psychology, sociology, digital marketing, etc. He's irrecoverably interdisciplinary, which makes his perspectives so interesting in just about any conversation. 

Mihaela Kovacs, Roma coordinator for Sigisoara. President of Baracca

Momir Blazek, is the CEO and Art Director of MI Design, a graphic design business in Croatia. He has produced advertisements for various businesses, book covers, posters, web pages and magazines. Momir works closely with Nonprofit Agencies and since 2014, he designed the Charity Campaigns for Croatian Caritas reaching more than 300.000 children each year. Momir is certified EQUIP trainer

Zachary Schmidtis a musician/songwriter, a business owner, works in education and is a lover of peace and reconciliation. He currently lives in the Canary Islands on the small island of La Gomera. In the year 2017 he founded the non-profit Pass the Salt which was very much inspired by both Renewing our Mind (ROM) and Economics, Diplomacy and Integrity (EDI) but aimed specifically at the arts and artists. Having lived in many different countries and cultures he is intensely curious about questions of identity, human nature and the Devine. Pass the Salt has laid dormant since Covid and he is coming to this years EDI with the open question of whether this trip will be a bookend or the beginning of a new chapter?