COMPOSITION AS OF 16 MAY 2025

Further to the EPRA Statutes, the Executive Board acts as the strategic body steering the EPRA. Inter alia, it represents the EPRA in external events, proposes a 3-year strategy, devises the yearly work programmes and related activities, and takes decisions relating to the operation of the EPRA.
 

EPRA Chairperson 

Stephanie Comey 

Director of Media Literacy and User Education at the Coimisiún na Meán (CNaM), Ireland

Stephanie Comey was elected as EPRA Chairperson at the 61st EPRA meeting on 16 May 2025 and has been sitting on the EPRA Board since May 2021. From 2021 to March 2024 Stephanie was in charge of the EPRA "AI and Regulators Roundtables". From March 2024, she has been leading EMIL, EPRA's Media and Information Taskforce.

Stephanie joined the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland in 2003 and has since worked across a number of media policy development and regulatory areas.

Since March 2023, she is the Director of Media Literacy and User Education with Coimisiún na Meán, the Irish media regulator. In that role, she is responsible for the delivery of media literacy and user education materials and initiatives, aiming to support and empower Irish people.  Key outputs include the design, development and delivery of educational resources, and ongoing support for the Irish media literacy network, Media Literacy Ireland of which, she is co-chair.

She has worked closely on projects led by the Council of Europe, ERGA and EPRA, as well as the new Media Board and the Irish National Counter-Disinformation Strategy.

She holds degrees in Law and English from the University of Le Havre in France, an MA with the University of Westminster and an MSocSci with the University of Leicester in the UK.

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EPRA Vice-Chairpersons

In alphabetical order

Branko Bošković 

President of the Council of the Agency for electronic media of Montenegro, Montenegro

Branko Bošković was elected as EPRA Vice-Chairperson at the 61st EPRA Meeting on 16 May 2025 and joins the EPRA Board for the first time. He became a member of the Council of the Agency for electronic media of Montenegro in April 2021 before becoming its president in June 2021. Branko Bošković has graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Montenegro in 2007 and earned his Master’s degree at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. 

He received his PhD at the University of Donja Gorica, Montenegro where he was a teaching assistant and from 2020, an assistant professor in the area of political sociology. He has published articles and book chapters, given presentations and talks at relevant academic events. During his work, he has been awarded several scholarships for research, including University of Salzburg, University of Texas (Austin), Universidad de Deusto (Bilbao), Universidad de Sevilla, and others.

He actively participates in research activities in the Montenegrin Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other activities include research projects and other research related to the area of political sociology and media, including media regulation.

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Valentin-Alexandru Jucan

Vice President, National Audiovisual Council, Romania

Valentin-Alexandru was re-elected as EPRA Vice-Chairperson at the 61st EPRA Meeting on 16 May 2025. He is currently serving as the Vice President with the responsibilities of President of the National Audiovisual Council of Romania, holding the rank of State Secretary. He has been appointed to a second term and has a long experience in public administration.

Mr Jucan pursued his studies at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca and later undertook specialisations in law, European affairs, and journalism.

At the invitation of the United States Department of State, he attended the prestigious international leadership and journalism programme known as the “Edward R. Murrow Program” (IVLP), held in both Washington, D.C. and New York City. He also completed the postgraduate course in Strategic Communication and Operations in the Information Environment, organised by the United States Naval Postgraduate School. A significant part of Mr Jucan’s training was conducted within the Directorate for European Affairs of the Romanian Senate.

Stanislav Matějka

Head of International Affairs Unit Department, Council for Media Services, Slovakia

 

Stanislav Matějka was re-elected as EPRA Vice-Chairperson at the 61st EPRA Meeting on 16 May 2025. He is currently the Head of International Affairs Unit Department at the Council for Media Services (CMS), the national regulatory authority for audiovisual media services in Slovakia.

Within EPRA, he is in charge of the series of workshops on "video-sharing platforms and regulation".

In 2024, he also serves as a Chair of Subgroup 3 of the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) dedicated to countering disinformation and strengthening democracy in the digital environment.

Before joining the Slovak media regulator, he previously served as a Hybrid Threats and Strategic Communication expert at the Slovak Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and as an analyst focusing on trends in terrorism studies within GLOBSEC Policy Institute, a Slovak think-tank.

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Anthony Szynkaruk

Director, Broadcasting & Media Group, Ofcom, UK

Anthony Szynkaruk was appointed Director, Broadcasting & Media Group at Ofcom (UK) in November 2023. He is a member of Ofcom’s Senior Leadership Group, with particular responsibility for implementation of the Media Act – the first major update to the UK’s media regulatory framework in twenty years – securing prominence for public service media on on-demand platforms and ensuring the continued applicability of PSB regulation in an online world.  

Mr Szynkaruk has had a 25-year career in all aspects of media, technology and competition regulation. Most recently, he was Assistant Director at the UK’s Competition & Markets Authority, where he led development of the UK’s digital markets legislation, focussing on the relationship between news media organisations and global technology firms. In his earlier career at Ofcom (UK), among other things he led Ofcom’s work on media plurality and news consumption, competition in broadcast media markets, and the UK’s 2020 review of public service media.

He has been a speaker at a number of EPRA meetings in addition to events run by the IIC, European Audiovisual Observatory and European Commission on topics including advertising regulation and media plurality.

Mr Szynkaruk graduated with an MA in English Literature from Cambridge University in 1998. He is proud to be a British and Polish citizen and splits his time between London and Berlin.