Irina Bokova is Director-General of UNESCO. A former Bulgarian ambassador to France and Monaco she was elected for four years in 2009.
Professor John McMillan has recently been appointed Australia's
Information Commissioner. He was previously the Commonwealth of
Australia's Ombudsman. He is a member of the Administrative Review
Council, which advises the Attorney-General on administrative law
matters.
Toby Mendel is the executive director of the Center for Law and Democracy, a Canadian-based human rights non-governmental organisation.
Aidan White is the general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists based in Brussels, Belgium.
Francis
oversees the implementation of the ‘Vois Blong Yumi’ project with
Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation.
Julie Kinross was
appointed as Queensland Information Commissioner on 30 July 2009.
As Assistant
Director-General, Abdul Waheed Khan has led UNESCO’s Communication and
Information Sector since 2001.
Rick Snell is a senior lecturer in public law at the Law
School, University of Tasmania. His principal area of interest is
administrative law but he has published and studied in a wide number of areas
(including history, politics and the South Pacific).
Dr Alexandra Föderl-Schmid is editor-in-chief of the daily Der Standard
in Vienna.
Michelle has
been a lecturer in film, television and screen arts at Curtin University of
Technology since 2000. Prior to
her academic career she worked in television production with the ABC,
CBC and Channel 9.
Edetaen Ojo is Executive Director of Media Rights Agenda (MRA), an NGO based in Lagos, which works to promote media freedom and freedom of expression.
Professor Guy Berger is head of the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Frank La Rue is the United Nation´s Special Rapporteur of
Freedom of Opinion and Expression. Holder of a postgraduate degree in US
foreign policy from Johns Hopkins University, he has worked on human rights for
the past 25 years.
Ramzi Khoury was born in Jordan. He is a strategic
communications consultant, journalist and columnist.
Zuhair Al-Jezairy was born in 1945 in Najef, Iraq and got a degree in
German literature at Baghdad University.
Dr Ulla Carlsson, Professor and Director
of the Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research
and the International Cleaninghouse on Children, Youth and Media at
University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
Taranath Dahal is chair of the Freedom Forum and of the Citizen's
Campaign for Right to Information in Nepal.
David Banisar is senior legal counsel for Article 19. He is also a
non-resident fellow at the Center for Internet and Society
at Stanford Law School and a visiting research fellow at the School of
Law, University of Leeds.
Lisa Williams-Lahari is a Pacific
journalist and media activist with a background in print and television
and experience in radio journalism who now sets up office where ever
she can find a power source and an internet connection.
Dr Rhonda Breit is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism and
Communication at the University of Queensland.
Dr David
Robie is an
associate professor in journalism and communication studies and director
of the Pacific Media Centre at the AUT University School of
Communication
Studies.
Valentina
Al-ama, Ma'an Network
Communications and Projects Director since 2005, received her BA in accounting
at Bethlehem
University, where she worked as an accountant during 2000 - 2003.
Nadezhda Azhgikhina has been the executive secretary of the Russian
Union of Journalists since 2003.
Born in France,
Marie-Noelle Ferrieux Patterson is the president of Transparency
International
Vanuatu, and is also a founding member of the Vanuatu chapter of this
globally -
respected human rights NGO.
Dan Southerland is
vice president and executive editor of congressionally funded Radio Free Asia,
which provides news and information to Asian listeners whose governments
restrict the media.
Professor Michael Bromley is the Head of the School of Journalism and Communication and Professor of Journalism at The University of Queensland.
In January 1993, she was foundress and president of the popular and independent TV company “TOTEM” in Almaty. The station was closed in spite of holding a licence for TV and radio frequences in January 1998.
Photographer John Rodsted, borne 1961 in Melbourne Australia, has documented the humanitarian impacts of landmines, cluster munitions and other unexploded ordnance in some of the most war torn regions on earth for almost 30 years.
Associate Professor Martin Hadlow gained an MA (Mass Communications) from Leicester University, UK. He has also studied as a Professional Development Associate at the East-West Centre in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Associate Professor Leo Bowman has worked in print, radio and television journalism in the Queensland regions and in Brisbane.
Michael Meadows worked as a print and broadcast journalist based in Brisbane for 10 years before moving into journalism education in the late 1980s.
Investigative journalist Robert Mukombozi has covered wars, corruption and killings in Rwanda , Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Katy Le Roy is Nauru ’s Parliamentary Counsel. She holds a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and is about to complete her PhD on Constitution Making. From 2006, Katy served as UNDP adviser to Nauru ’s constitutional review process, assisting a Parliamentary Committee to design an inclusive process of constitutional review.
Atmakusumah Astraatmadja is a media observer and currently senior lecturer of press ethics and press law at the journalism training centers Dr. Soetomo Press Institute (LPDS) and the School for Broadcast Media, both in Jakarta .
A Yuwallarai woman from NSW, Kirstie Parker has 25 years experience as a journalist and communications specialist. Since 2006, she has been Editor of the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander newspaper The Koori Mail (audited circulation of 9560+ copies per fortnight).
P V Satheesh is currently the Director of the Deccan Development Society, a rural development organization that works with rural dalit [India’s most marginalized social group] women from the poorest families.
Alvaro Herrero is the Executive Director of the Association for Civil Rights. He holds a Law degree (National University of La Plata, Argentina), a Masters in Latin American Studies (Georgetown University, United States), and a Doctorate in Political Science (University of Oxford, England).
JOHN WOODS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, THE COOK ISLANDS NEWS
John Woods is editor and publisher of the Cook Island’s main daily newspaper, the Cook Islands News, which is based in the country’s capital, Rarotonga.
