Gergana Jouleva is the initiator, one of the founders and the current Executive Director of Access to Information Programme. Gergana Jouleva has been professionally involved in the access to information area since 1995. She is an author of a number of publications focusing on the freedom of information. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Freedom of Information Advocates Network), member of the editorial board of Freedominfo.org, member of the advisory board of Access-Info Europe and of Privacy International.

Yordanka Gancheva is one of the founders of Access to Information Programme and has long experience in research work, project management, NGO financial and executive management in Bulgaria and other countries in the region. Yordanka Gancheva started her work in the NGO sector in 1994 and until 2003 has occupied the following positions in the Institute for Market Economics: office and financial manager, financial director, senior researcher and analyst. She is an initiator and co-founder of the Economic Policy Research Institute in Skopje, Macedonia whose research activities she managed till October 2008.