facilitator for the meeting.....

Axel Queval

Head of International Relations, Jean Jaures Foundation

He was the coordinator of the book on the Republic of Korea published at the "Documentation française" in 1997, Worked as a researcher on Asia at the "Institut de Recherches Internationales Stratégiques" (one of the biggest French think-tanks on defense) and has authored three reports for the Ministry of defense on Japan and Great Britain.

from the Asia Europe Foundation.....

Bertrand Fort

Director, Intellectual Exchange

Bertrand has been senior adviser to the Humanitarian Affairs Delegation of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from 1998 to early 2002 served as Political Adviser to Foreign Affairs Minister M. Hubert V é drine.  In addition, he was a post-degree lecturer at the Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) de Paris, and at the IEP of Lille.

From 1996 to 1998 he worked as a journalist, editing the magazine "l'Asie", and also as a researcher in the think-tank IRIS (Institute of International and Strategic Relations).  From 1990 to 1996 Bertrand was in charge of external communications at the French Parliament, and from 1989 to 1990 was Assistant-Counsellor to the French Defence Minister.

Sohni Kaur

Project Executive, Intellectual Exchange

other participants.....

Colin Goh

Filmaker and Producer

COLIN GOH is the founding editor of Singapore's most popular satirical humour website, TalkingCock.com, which has been featured in Time Magazine, Wired, The Economist and on the BBC, and was even debated in Singapore's parliament. Based on the website, he co-directed and produced a feature film which has played in ten film festivals across Europe and Asia.

He has also produced a comedy CD which the Singapore edition of Elle magazine voted 'Album of the Year'; and the Coxford Singlish Dictionary, a bestselling lexicon of Singapore's vernacular English. A former practicing attorney, Colin has turned to full-time writing and producing. He is a columnist for Singapore's top newspaper, The Straits Times, as well as Singapore's highest circulation weekly, 8 Days. He is presently working on a feature film to be shot in New York.

David Celdran

Director for Current Affairs and Channel Operations, ANC

David Celdran is the Director for Current Affairs and Channel Operations of the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC), the Philippines' only 24-hour news network. He is one of the pioneers of cable news programming and online news content in his country, having helped set up SKY News in 1994, the Philippines' first cable news service.

Since 1989, David has worked as a news producer and correspondent for various Philippine television networks, including ANC, for which he currently anchors one of its news programs. He is also a media analyst and contributes articles and opinion pieces about pop culture and television in the Philippines. Apart from this, he sits in the editorial board of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism.

Jaap van Ginneken

Associate Professor of Communication, University of Amsterdam

Dr. Jaap van Ginneken works as an independent psychological adviser based near Nice, France; and as part-time associate professor of communication at Amsterdam University and its International School in The Netherlands. He long worked as a journalist and is the author of some 16 books in 27 editions: popular and academic, in Dutch and English, but also in various other languages.

On the subject of rapid shifts in perception, he published Crowds, psychology and politics (Cambridge UP 1992), and Collective behavior and public opinion (Erlbaum 2003). On the subject of intercultural representations, he published Understanding global news (Sage 1998) and is preparing Exotic Hollywood (2005). English language website: Http://vanginneken.vertelt.net

Jo Groebel

Director-General, European Institute of the Media

Jo Groebel was or is advisor to the Dutch government, the President of Germany (a.o. Weizsäcker Commission), several broadcasters, the German Chancellor, the United Nations, UNESCO, the Government Summit of Heads of States in 2000 with, a.o., Clinton, Schröder, Jospin, Mbeki, and several FORTUNE 500-companies. He has co-operated in numerous functions with regard to a multitude of political and media related subjects at the level of the German States. He was also head of the media monitoring missions for the European Commission during the 1999 DUMA and the presidential elections 2000 in Russia and Serbia. He has co-operated in his research with, a.o Harvard Law School, Yale and Cambridge Universities. He is author/editor of 20 books mainly on media, published in Europe and the United States. In his function as EIM-DG, he is host of the annual European Film and Television Forum which took place, a.o. in recent years in Barcelona, Dublin, Prague, Bologna and Berlin. In 2000, he received the outstanding Contribution Award of the International Council of Psychologists, Tokyo. In 2001, he received the honorary membership of the Association of European Journalists.

Judo Poerwowidagdo

Exective Director, Centre for Empowering Reconciliation and Peace

He was previously the President of Krida Wacana Christian University, Jakarta. In 2002 and 2003, he was a member of the Presidential Independent Investigation Commission on the Conflict in Maluku.

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

Lecturer, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Communication Studies

Dr Karin Wahl-Jorgensen teaches in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. She holds a PhD from Stanford University and has worked as a journalist for newspapers and magazines in Denmark and the United States. Her research focuses on the relationship between citizenship, democracy and mass media.

Her work has appeared in more than 20 different journals, and she is currently working on two books. Journalists and the Public (Hampton Press) looks at how journalists deal with and discuss letters to the editor. Citizens or Consumers? The Media and the Decline of Political Participation (Open University Press), is co-authored with Justin Lewis and Sanna Inthorn, and examines how citizens are represented in the news. She is the Director of the MA in Political Communication at Cardiff University.

Kim Tae Hyung

News Reporter, KBS

The program of 'Media Focus' was launched in June of 2003. 'Media Focus' was to organize to encourage media workers to better fulfill their professional obligation to serve the public. He is a graduate of Yonsei University in Seoul , Korea . He majored in political science.

After graduation, as a news reporter at KBS, he has written and reported on the various items in dynamic Korea . And he has visited China , Japan , India , Germany and Finland  to cover the news or to make documentary.

Pauline Neville-Jones

International Governor, BBC

Prior to that, she was a career member of the Diplomatic Service; chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee in Whitehall (1991- 1994) and, as Political Director in the FCO, leader of the British delegation to the Dayton peace conference on Bosnia in 1995. Between 1995 and 2000, she worked in the City.

Raul Martinez

Director, Xenomedia Communication

Dr. Raúl Martínez Corcuera is, currently, directing the Diversity MediaWatch in Spain. It's a quantitative and qualitative research on the analysis of the portrayal of the ethnic minorities and the process of migration in the media. He participates in and coordinates different European networks in Spain. He regularly contributes as a specialist in the media, at a Catalan radio station and also teaches audiovisual communication analysis in Barcelona.

He received his PhD from Autonomous University of Barcelona in the field of myths around European identity and the portrayal in the media. His research focused on the relationship between citizenship, ethnic minorities and the social participation in the media. Visiting professor in Amsterdam, Santiago de Compostela and Bolivia. In Bolivia he was co-director of the research promoted by WHO and the Bolivian Government to promote the role of the mass media in fighting against cholera and dengue.

Takesato Watanabe

Professor, Doshisha University

An author who has published extensively on the media, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard in 2001.