Sally Broughton Micova is currently Associate Professor in Communications Policy and Politics at the University of East Anglia and member of its Centre for Competition Policy. She is also an Academic Co-Director at the Centre for Regulation in Europe (CERRE) in Brussels. Her research draws on fundamental rights, notions of harm, and normative understandings of the role of media and communication technologies in society, particularly in democracy and politics. She regularly serves as an expert for the Council of Europe on freedom of expression, media pluralism, audiovisual media and platform regulation, and she has contributed to research projects for the European Commission. Before entering academia, she worked over a decade in international organisations in Southeast Europe, including five years as Head of Media and Spokesperson at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Skopje working closely with the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

Sally has a PhD from the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science on “Small and Resistant: Europeanization of Media Management in Slovenia and Macedonia”. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the School of International Service at the American University of Washington.