Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck is the founder of Lie Detectors, an award-winning news-literacy project in Europe. She directs its partnerships and strategy. She advises governments, policy-makers and the EU on strategies for public education policies to counter polarisation and disinformation. Juliane's strength lies in detecting future trends and in building alliances that address them and implement solutions. She co-authored Europe’s digital literacy guidelines, advised the EU as a member of the 2018 High-Level Expert Group on Fake News and its Media Literacy Expert Group and regularly participates in policy discussions at OECD, UNESCO, EU and national government as well as industry and CSO level. Juliane designed the concept, scripts and training approach of Lie Detectors. She has been recognised for her work via the project’s awards and award shortlists and personally as an EU “Local Hero”. She has been interviewed widely about her work. To create Lie Detectors, Juliane put aside an award-winning journalism career of 20 years, during which she wrote for The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Newsweek and Spiegel Online among others, focusing on the intersection of money and politics and specialising in international trade. She managed and built up the US operations of specialist news service MLex and led its global trade and investment coverage from Washington, DC. Juliane’s reporting has taken her to the US, across the EU, North and sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Arctic.

Juliane is a graduate in Broadcast Studies of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and read History at Edinburgh University. Raised by seafaring parents, she grew up on islands and speaks English, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese. She attempted to learn Mandarin and succeeded mainly in making her tutor laugh.