Speakers

Peter Matjašič

Executive Director, Investigate Europe

Peter Matjašič, originally from Slovenia but residing for over a decade in Barcelona, is the Executive Director of Investigate Europe, a unique permanent cross-border team and a journalistic cooperative from eleven European countries. Peter’s role is to co-lead the team, help its development in reaching broader audiences, enlarge its community outreach, represent IE externally, and keep its operations and finances in order.

Prior to joining IE, Peter spent over eight years at the Open Society Initiative for Europe focused on grant making as a tool to achieve change. His most impactful work was supporting an ecosystem of actors to advance whistleblower rights in Europe. Moreover, Peter had been active in the field of youth work for 12 years, starting with the Young European Federalists and finishing as president of the European Youth Forum (2011- 2014) advocating for the rights of young people and their organizations.