Jeff Lovitt, a results-oriented leader in promoting participatory democracy, has worked with the Council of Europe, UN, European Commission, and USAID. He conceived and launched the Council of Europe's participatory democracy academies, ran ground-breaking projects to secure visa-free travel for EU’s eastern and southern neighbours, helped independent media grantees in Central Europe to secure average digital audience growth rate of 151%, and raised more than €2M for policy dialogue projects.