Since 1996, Pierre-Yves has been implementing innovative technologies and programs for media companies, starting his career at France Télévision before transitioning to radio, where he led the survey department for RTL France, RTL2, and Fun Radio. He then moved into strategic development for the integration of new media, leading the digital radio strategy for RTL Group at its European headquarters in Luxembourg. In 2008, he joined the Luxembourg startup Jamendo, where he developed a new business model based on the world’s largest Creative Commons music catalog. He then led operations for the startup VitalBriefing, growing it from the ground up to generate €1 million in revenue. He was also certified as a Fit4Resilience expert during the COVID-19 pandemic.

More recently, Pierre-Yves programmed and hosted keynotes, conferences, and events on the stage of the Paperjam+Delano Business Club, Luxembourg’s leading independent media company. He currently hosts the “B17 x Forbes” Talks.

Pierre-Yves holds dual Luxembourgish and French nationality.
He graduated in 1997 from the Institut Supérieur de Commerce de Paris with a master’s degree in management, and in 2000 from the University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne with a postgraduate degree (DESS) in media law and administration.

Since March 2006, Georg Mein has been Full Professor of Modern German Literature and Theory at the University of Luxembourg, where he has also been elected President of the University Council since November 2023.

Since January 2025, he has been appointed Director of the University of Luxembourg Institute for Digital Ethics (ULIDE).

Georg Mein studied Philosophy, German Language and Literature and Educational Science at the University of Bonn, obtaining his PhD in Modern German Literature in 1999 and his Habilitation at the University of Bielefeld in 2006. In the same year, he joined the University of Luxembourg as Full Professor of Modern German Literature and Theory. Over the years, he has held various leadership positions, including Director of the Master in Secondary Education and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (2013-2023).

Throughout his career, Georg Mein has been actively involved in international academic exchange. He has held visiting positions and research fellowships at institutions such as Duke University, KU Leuven and the Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne. He has also contributed to the development of higher education policy as the National Bologna Delegate for the Humanities at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

His research covers the full range of modern German literature, with a particular focus on cultural and theoretical issues that intersect with sociology, anthropology and media studies.

In recent years, his work has increasingly focused on the cultural and societal implications of digitalisation and artificial intelligence, especially their impact on democracy, governance and public discourse. Drawing on both historical perspectives and contemporary developments, his research explores how emerging technologies are reshaping democracy, knowledge systems and social structures.

Since 2016, Andreas Fickers is the director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), 3^rd interdisciplinary center at the University of Luxembourg and head of its Digital History Lab. He studied history, philosophy and sociology and is currently Professor for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg. He took his PhD in 2002 at RWTH Aachen University and worked as Assistant Professor for television history at Utrecht University (2003-2007) and Associate Professor for comparative media history at Maastricht University (2007-2013).He’s head of the FNR funded Doctoral Training Unit “Deep Data Science of Digital History” (D4H) and coordinates the Trinational doctoral school together with Prof. Dr Dietmar Hüser (Universität des Saarlandes) and Prof. Dr Hélène Miard-Delacroix (Université Paris-Sorbonne). He’s also prinicipal investigator of the projects DEMA , Popkult60,  LuxTime and BUREU . Furthermore, he is the editor of the Journal of Digital History and co-editor of the book series ‘Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics’ published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

• Since January 2015, Mark D. Cole has been Professor for Media and Telecommunication Law at the University of Luxembourg, where he is also Course Director for the Master in General European Law LL.M. programme. Beetween 2007 and 2014, he was Associate Professor of Law (Law of the New Information Technologies, Media and Communications Law) at the same university.
• In addition, he is a Faculty Member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg.

External appointments include:

• Director for Academic Affairs at the Institute for European Media Law (Saarbrücken/Brussels),
• Co-Director of the Institute for Legal Informatics at the Universität des Saarlandes,
• Lecturer for “European Media Law” in the LL.M. programme on Media Law at the Mainzer Medieninstitut/Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz,
• Lecturer for “Media Competition Law” – Case Studies in the LL.M. programme on “European and International Law” at the Europainstitut, Saarbrücken.
• Prof. Mark D. Cole specialises in Media Law, covering both traditional mass media as well as the law of the new information technologies. Of British origin (born 1972), he grew up in Switzerland and Germany where he studied law and political science. He holds a doctorate from the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (2003) where he was research assistant from 1999 to 2002 and again from 2005 to 2007 at the Chair in Public Law, International and European Law, Media Law. Additionally, he holds both German State Examinations in Law. He gained practical experience in media law at the DG Competition of the European Commission, a law office specialising in Intellectual Property Law and the legal department of a television broadcasting company. For three years he was Researcher at the Mainz Media Institute where he still teaches a class on European Media Law in the LL.M.-programme on Media Law. From 2005 to 2007 he was lecturer for “Media Law” in the Media Sciences course of the Technical University Braunschweig and also taught in the advanced training programme for government employees of the European School of Governance (Berlin) covering all areas of European Law.

• Prof. Mark D. Cole has published and guest lectured in many European countries and the U.S. and has participated in conferences, not only on subjects of Media Law, but also Public International Law, European Law and Constitutional Law.