A New Voice in Brussels: Oliver Money-Kyrle Joins BFMI

The Balkan Free Media Initiative is proud to welcome Oliver Money-Kyrle to its Management Committee as Senior Advisor for EU Policy & Advocacy, strengthening its voice in Brussels at a pivotal moment for European media policy.

Some appointments feel like a natural next step. This is one of them.

BFMI is delighted to announce that Oliver Money-Kyrle is joining our Management Committee as Senior Advisor for EU Policy & Advocacy. His arrival comes at a decisive moment, both for BFMI as we mark five years of work, and for European media policy as it grapples with questions that grow more urgent by the month.

Oliver brings 28 years on the frontlines of defending journalists' rights, and a depth of experience that is genuinely rare. Most recently, as Head of Europe Advocacy at the International Press Institute (IPI), he played a central role in shaping some of the most consequential pieces of European media legislation of the past decade, including the European Media Freedom Act, the Anti-SLAPP Directive and the Digital Services Act.

Before IPI, he spent more than two decades at the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), leading press freedom and media development work across the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. It is work that left a real mark on the region BFMI calls home, and on a generation of journalists who built their careers in often difficult conditions.

For BFMI, Oliver's arrival means more than added expertise. It strengthens our presence in Brussels precisely when the EU policy conversation around platform accountability, media ownership and information integrity is reaching a critical point. It also ensures that the structural questions we've spent five years asking, often quietly, often in places others overlook, remain firmly at the centre of what comes next.

We are very glad to have him with us, and we look forward to the road ahead.

The BFMI Management Committee