The first Chair of the European Committee was elected to be Dmitry Dubrovsky, PhD in History (Charles University)

Dubrovsky (b. 1970) is a researcher and lecturer at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic). He graduated from the Faculty of History at Saint Petersburg State University and the Faculty of Ethnology at the European University at St. Petersburg. He founded the human rights program at the Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, and has taught at Columbia University and the Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg and Moscow). He has also worked at the University of Helsinki and held fellowships at the Kennan Institute (Galina Starovoitova Fellowship), the Institute of International Education, the Kone Foundation, and the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program. His academic interests include freedom of speech and hate speech, as well as academic rights and freedoms in the USSR and contemporary Russia. In April 2022, he was designated a “foreign agent” by the Russian government.