Daan Ballegeer (1982) studied economic sciences at Ghent University and journalism. He worked as a financial journalist for Flemish financial daily De Tijd for several years and now writes for various Belgian and Dutch newspapers and magazines. Ons Europa is niet dat van hen ('Our Europe is different from theirs') is his first book.
Damien Spleeters (1986) is a freelance journalist who examines the use of Belgian weapons in modern conflicts and investigates the Belgian arms brokers.
Daniel Lambo (° Willebroek, 1968) studied literature and scriptwriting. He started writing for theater and television. As a director, he mainly focuses on socially relevant themes. He makes both documentaries and feature films. Meanwhile he worked as a director, writer and producer on more than twenty films.
David Bert Joris Dhert graduated as a development economist at Ghent University and chose to work with documentary film and photography instead of with statistics.
David Van Reybrouck (Bruges, 1971) was born into a Flemish family of florists, bookbinders and artists. His father, a farmer’s son, spent five years in Congo as a railway engineer immediately after independence.
Debby Huysmans studied photography at the Academy in Ghent. In 2003 she graduated and received the artistic prize Horlait Dapsens. She made several photo serials in Poland, Romania, Belgium and Russia. Her work has been shown in several domestic and foreign exhibitions.
Denise Van den Broeck (°1957) is a freelance journalist. She wrote the books 'Het kloppend hart van het spoor' (1998), 'Stinkende zaakjes' (2003) en 'Medische Blunders' (2004). In 2008 she worked undercover as a security guard in the security zone of Brussels Airport where she was assigned to track down terrorists, bombs and drugs. She wrote down her observations in the book 'Iedereen terrorist!' (2012). 'Medische Blunders', 'Stinkende zaakjes' and 'Iedereen terrorist!' were realised with support of the Pascal Decroos Fund.
