Catalina Iordache Editor

Tim Raats is Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. He is head of the Media Economics and Policy unit at imec-SMIT-VUB (Studies on Media, Innovation and Technology) and specialises in policy and market research, with a particular focus on financing and production in small audiovisual markets, and management and policy challenges for public service media.

Catalina Iordache is a Senior Researcher and Guest Professor at imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. Her research focuses on media industries studies, public service media, and European audiovisual policy. She holds a PhD from the VUB (2022) and bridges scholarly research with stakeholder engagements and (post)graduate teaching.