Annie Sacerdoti is a journalist and author of the first “Guide to Jewish Italy”, as well as a series of regional Italian Jewish itineraries and Italian Jewish museum guides. A member of the AEPJ board since its inception, she was part of the team behind the first European Day of Jewish Culture. She is the Vice President of the Fondazione Beni Culturali Ebraici in Italia (FBCEI).

Trained as a high school teacher of history and Spanish, Anke Biedenkapp decided to pursue a career beyond school: She worked as a study tour guide in Spain as well as Malta and Cuba. Later, she founded an innovative city tour company in Hanover, which she managed for twenty years. In parallel, she organized the Reisepavillon, a globally unique sustainability forum that sent important impulses into the tourism industry for two decades. Since 2011, she has been the head of the Global Partnership Hannover association and is responsible under this umbrella for projects on education for sustainable development and on the topic of remembrance culture. She is also involved in various civil society organizations on a voluntary basis.

Nesi Kupreishvili is the Project Manager at the Israeli House NET, aiming to use public diplomacy (Hasbara) to take care of the image of Israel and achieve solidarity; She Graduated Social and Political Sciences at Tbilisi State University and then followed with an MBA degree. Formerly a Delegate and a Head of President Administration at Tbilisi State University Self-Government. Since, her career has been focused on effectively managing various projects in construction and development, as well as dealing with investments and sales in hospitality and tourism industries at one of the leading organizations in Georgia.

Is a French specialist in communication. She was, for more than two decades, the press officer of the Mayor of Strasbourg and President of the Alsace Region, and managed the public image of the Strasbourg Metropole. In 2006, she founded her own agency, WPR Public Relations, and she acts as a consultant to communities, businesses and associations.

From 2015 onward, she worked with United States Holocaust Memorial Washington to promote the French version of the exhibition “The Power of Nazi Propaganda” at UNESCO Paris and the Paris City Hall (Hôtel de Ville). In 2017, she organised the presentation of the exhibition in Strasbourg,  in cooperation with city staff and the Council of Europe.

Since 2017, she has been the General Secretary of the European “Route of Judaism on the Rhineland” association.

Thierry Koch is the current president of JECPJ-France, an association bringing together in France a large part of the main Jewish cultural institutions, several large cities as well as local Jewish communities. Each year, it coordinates the participation of its members in the European Days of Jewish Culture.

Petr Svoboda has been working at the National Heritage Institute since 2007. He is the author of many exhibitions and publications focused on the textile industry in Brno, on the families of Jewish entrepreneurs and on architecture. He is the head of the Methodological Centre of Modern Architecture in Brno which is located in the Villa Stiassni, and works closely with the administrators of other Jewish houses and monuments.

Kveta Svobodova has been involved in the 10STARS – 10HVEZD project for 10 years. During the three-year reconstruction period she was responsible for setting up the permanent exhibitions and coordinating the team of authors and working together with architects and graphic artists, carrying out interior installations and purchasing historical equipment. Since the launch of the project in 2014 until the present day she has coordinated the operations and cultural activities in all the ten buildings, teaming up with local partners, solving technical issues and promoting the project.

Artur was born in Minsk and spent two years living with a relative in Nashville, Tennessee. It was there, as a child of the Soviet Union, that he discovered Judaism; he studied Hebrew and had a bar mitzvah. It was his first foray into Jewish life. He spent a year living in a boarding school in Israel before returning to Belarus where he completed his education in Minsk, studying Human Rights Law. Having had a taste of Jewish life, he has made it his life’s work to strive for a revival of the Jewish community in Belarus. He met Debra Brunner in 2009 and together, since that time, they have worked to build and grow The Together Plan.