Panel of Judges

The Judges will convene in January 2013 to select the winning entries from the shortlist in each category. The winning entries will be announced on January 29, 2013.

Preparatory Committee

Panel of Judges

Timetable and procedure

	Sir Harold Evans – Chairman – United Kingdom Sir Harold Evans is one of Britain’s most famous and feted editors. He first edited the Northern Echo in Darlington before moving to edit the Sunday Times in London for 14 years, where his campaigns – for example, on behalf of thalidomide victims – made headlines and helped change laws. He was briefly editor of The Times thereafter, before moving to the United States, where he has served as publisher at Random House and editorial director of several publications, including US News and World Report. He is a noted historian of American life and a world authority on newspaper design techniques. Sir Harold is currently editor-at-large for Reuters.
	Sylvie Kauffmann – France Sylvie Kaufmann is editorial director of the French newspaper Le Monde, of which she was editor in chief in 2010-2011. Previously, she was the deputy editor and a reporter-at-large in Asia, based in Singapore. Kaufmann joined Le Monde in 1988 as its Moscow correspondent. Next, as Eastern and Central Europe correspondent, she covered the collapse of the Soviet empire and the subsequent political and economic changes in the Eastern European countries. She then moved to the United States, first as Washington correspondent and then as New York bureau chief. She also covered the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks as reporter-at-large. Kauffmann then headed the in-depth reporting section of Le Monde.
	Jørgen Ejbøl – Denmark Jørgen Ejbøl started his career in journalism with the Aalborg Stiftstidende newspaper. From 1976-1993 he served as editor and editor-in-chief on various newspapers in Denmark such as Fyens Amts Avis, Dagbladet, Weekendavisen Berlingske Aften, BT, Billed Bladet, and Berlingske Tidende. From 1991-1993 he was editor-in-chief and managing director of JydskeVestkysten. In 1993, Ejbøl became editor-in-chief and managing director with Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, followed, in 2003, by his appointment as chairman of the board of JP/Politiken Newspapers Ltd., (Jyllands-Posten, Politiken and Ekstra Bladet). As of 2008, he is Vice Chairman of the Jyllands-Posten Foundation. From 2005 Ejbøl has held managerial positions in several media organizations in Denmark and abroad, like APM Print & Trans Press, (Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro), Alta Press, Barnaul, (Russia) and Sermitsiak.AG (Denmark/Greenland). From 2005-2008 Ejbøl was a member of the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize. From 2005-2011 The Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute.
	Paolo Flores d’Arcais – Italy Paolo Flores d’Arcais is one of the most influential philosophers and writers in Italy. He is the co-founder (1986) and editor of the journal MicroMega, an influential platform of intellectual essay writing. He is columnist in Il Fatto Quotidiniano and publishes in El País. Till retirement (2010) he has been researcher at the department of Philosophy at University La Sapienza in Rome. In 2002, he has organized with Nanni Moretti large-scale protests against the policy of the Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi. His books include Etica senza fede (1992), L’individuo libertario (1999), Hannah Arendt (2006), Albert Camus filosofo del futuro (2010), Gesù – l’invenzione del Dio cristiano (2011), and Democrazia! – libertà privata e libertà in rivolta (2012). Dio esiste? (2005) is the transcription of a public debate in a theatre in September 2000 with cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and Atei o credenti? (2007) is a controversy with Michel Onfray and Gianni Vattimo.
	Yevgenia Albats – Russia Yevgenia Albats was the first Soviet journalist to investigate the Soviet political police, the KGB in the Soviet-era. She is the author of The State Within A State: KGB and Its Hold on Russia. In 1989, she received the Golden Pen Award, the highest journalism honour in the then-Soviet Union. She was an Alfred Friendly fellow in 1990 and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993 and worked freelance for the Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, and the CNN bureau in Moscow. She has a PhD in political science from Harvard University and teaches at the Moscow-based Higher School of Economics University. Albats is the author of four books and currently is Editor in Chief and CEO of the Moscow-based political weekly The New Times, one of the few independent media outlets in the current Russia. She is also a talk show host for two Russian networks.