participant
profiles
facilitator
for the meeting.....
Axel
Queval
Head
of International Relations, Jean Jaures Foundation

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Axel
Queval
is head
of the International relations of the "Jean-Jaurès"
Foundation (the biggest French democracy support foundation).
He was previously the Advisor on international affairs
to Pierre Mauroy, President of the Socialist International
(regrouping all the social-democratic parties in the
world) from 1992 to 1999, and before that worked in
various departments of the Socialist Party.
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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.
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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

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Sohni
Kaur is a graduate of McGill University where she read
Political Science and Economics, with a special focus
on international organisations and the developing world.
She has worked with the Singapore Institute of International
Affairs, and now works with Intellectual Exchange in
the Asia Europe Foundation, where she works on the Cultures
& Civilisations Dialogue Programme. |
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dr. Jo Groebel is Director-General of the European Institute
for the Media, Düsseldorf/ Paris, holds a professorship
for media at the University of Amsterdam and is a visiting
professor at the University of California in Los Angeles
(UCLA) and the University St. Gallen.
He was President of the
Dutch Association for Communication Sciences and crown
appointed member of the Dutch Council for Culture.
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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

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Judo
is currently Executive Director and Founder of the Center
for Empowering Reconciliation and Peace, Jakarta since
August 2000. He did his Post Graduate Study at the University
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, received
the Ph.D. degree in the Foundations of Education, 1972
and Post Doctoral Study in Communication at "The Annenberg
School of Communication," University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, California, USA, 1978. |
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
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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. |
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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
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Kim,
Tae Hyung has been working for KBS, Korean Broadcasting
System as a news reporter since December of 1994. He
had been mainly in the team of the local news, culture
news, world news, and business news.
And
He is currently working as a journalist in the
weekly program called "Media Focus'.
'Media
Focus' is a media criticism program providing reviewing,
monitoring, and correcting of information in the
media.
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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
Dame
Pauline Neville-Jones is Chairman of QinetiQ Group plc
(formerly DERA), and of the Information Assurance Advisory
Council (IAAC). She is also the International Governor
of the BBC with responsibility for external broadcasting. |
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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
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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. |
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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
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Takesato
Watanabe is currently a Professor at Doshisha University
teaching Journalism Ethics and Mass Communication
Theory. He is concurrently the Director of the Doshisha
Center for Media and Communication Research, and Chairman
of the Advisory Committee to Kansai TV co., Osaka,
Japan. Prof. Watanabe has delivered lectures on the
Media in Japan widely across the United States, Canada
and Britain.
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An
author who has published extensively on the media, he was
a visiting scholar at Harvard in 2001.
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