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Gabriela Dimitrova Naplatanova-Ruseva, PhD journalist.
Appointed as a member of the Council for Electronic Media by a decree of President Rumen Radev on 9 May 2022.
Gabriela Naplatanova was awarded a master's degree from the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication in the Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, where she graduated in Public Relations major.
In the same faculty she was a visiting lecturer in the period 2015—2017.
She has trained with the IREX and IVLP programs of the U.S. Department of State and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, and has participated in numerous U.S. Mission to NATO media programs.
In 2019 she defended her dissertation on ‘Managing Media Effects and Media Operations during Armed Conflict’ at the ‘G.S. Rakovski’ Military Academy Faculty of National Security.
She started her professional career at Nova TV in 1997. She has been part of the News and Current Broadcasts editorial team at bTV since the establishment of the TV in 2000.
She has covered intensively topics related to Bulgaria's domestic and foreign policy, security and defence issues, armed conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan.
She is the author of several dozen documentary projects on foreign policy and military issues related to NATO, cyber security, data protection and refugee issues.
Over the years she has hosted several special studios on bTV on topics related to defence and foreign policy.
Winner of numerous awards and honours for her journalistic work and documentary projects in her 25-year television career.

Simona Veleva, PhD, Lawyer.
Elected by the National Assembly Decision of 5 May 2022. Simona Veleva holds a PhD in Constitutional Law from the Faculty of Law of Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, where she graduated in law. Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics and Copyright Law at the American University in Blagoevgrad.
Simona Veleva has worked with various media, journalists and organizations, including on projects related to ethical reporting of children in the media, fighting misinformation, combating hate speech and others.
She has worked as an expert at the Supreme Bar Council, and her work includes preparing opinions before the Constitutional Court, reviewing bills and other acts announced for public discussion and submitted to the National Assembly and preparing opinions on them.
Under her editorship the Bulgarian translations of the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Constitutions have been published, as well as a collection of case law of the Federal Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Basic Law of Germany has been published in her translation. She is an expert at the International Digital Rights Fund — Digital Freedom Fund.
Simona Veleva is an active advocate for deaf people and their right to express their opinions. She actively participates in the working group of the Ministry of Education and Science on the development of the Bulgarian Sign Language Act (promulgated SG No 9 of 2 February 2021), representing organizations of deaf people before the National Assembly in the adoption of the bill. Alongside, she is working to enforce the Act and increase deaf people’s access to media and media services and ensure their right to express their opinions.