BIOS Helle Porsdam is a Professor of Law and Humanities at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law (CIS), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. She teaches American culture and history in the SAXO Department, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Copenhagen, and law and humanities, the culture and history of human rights and cultural rights at the Faculty of Law. She also holds a UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights. She did her PhD in American Studies at Yale University and has been a Liberal Arts Fellow twice at the Harvard Law School as well as a fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and the University of Munich. Ole Reitov is a global human rights defender, speaker, moderator, journalist and independent consultant. In 1999, he co-founded Freemuse, the world’s leading organization defending artistic freedom and was its Executive Director from 2013-2017. In this position, he was also accredited to the UN Human Rights Council advocating artistic freedom. As an expert consultant to the UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights, he provided the background to the first UN report on artistic freedom: “The right to freedom of artistic expression and creativity”. Since 2015, he has been an appointed member of the EU/UNESCO Expert Facility for the 2005 Convention and conducted several workshops on behalf of UNESCO and published several reports and articles on censorship and artistic freedom. 50