Speakers World Press Freedom Day 2015 Riga, Latvia
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Speakers World Press Freedom Day 2015 Riga, Latvia ABUGHAIDA, Dareen Dareen Abughaida is a Principal Presenter at Al Jazeera English and has over ten years’ experience in journalism. She joined Al Jazeera English in 2010. Recent presenting highlights at Al Jazeera English include coverage of the Egyptian revolution, Tunisian and Libyan uprisings, the war in Syria, Turkey unrest, and the tsunami in Japan. She participates and moderates panels at conferences including the World Climate Change and the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, representing the Al Jazeera Network. Previous roles include anchor for programs at Dubai TV and CNBC Arabia, and news anchor for Bloomberg Television UK. At Dubai TV, Dareen Abughaida presented and produced programs interviewing heads of state, CEO's and experts in their fields. At Bloomberg she launched and presented the networks' program on the Middle East "Middle East Middle East Money Focus." AL KHAWAJA, Maryam Maryam Al Khawaja is a Bahraini human rights activist and president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights. Since many years she has been actively involved in human rights organizations and has participated in many conferences on this issue. She reported for example at the US Congress about the human rights’ situation in Bahrain, at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva or at the Oslo Freedom Forum. Maryam Al Khawaja has been president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights since 2012. ALI, Owais Aslam Owais Alam Ali is Secretary General of the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), holds a degree in journalism from Cardiff University, and was among the recipients of the Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard University in 2002. In addition to the PPF, he is also chairman of both Pakistan Press International and Asianet-Pakistan, the oldest and largest digital content syndication service in the country. Additionally, Owais Aslam Ali is inter alia member of the executive board of the International Press Instiutute (IPI) , member of the editorial advisor council of the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN). ARAPOVA, Galina Galina Arapova is director and senior media lawyer of the NGO Mass Media Defence Centre, working in the field of media rights protection and the promotion of freedom of expression standards in Russia. She is also a trustee of the international human rights organization ARTICLE 19 (Global Campaign for Free expression); a member of the International Media Lawyers Association; chair of the Public Council of Voronezh Regional Police Department; and a member of Voronezh City public Chamber. Galina Arapova has a law degree, and undertook post graduate studies at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations (Russian Academy of Sciences). BADER, Yara Yara Bader is the Acting director of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) and wife of the imprisoned Syrian journalist and human rights activist, Mazen Darwish. The SCM has played a key role in reporting the daily developments in Syria since the start of the uprising in early 2011, in particular due to the very limited access given to international journalists. Bader is well- known both inside Syria and regionally as a journalist working on a wide range of cultural and current affairs issues. BARWARI, Dlovan Dlovan Barwari has been Head of the Volunteer Lawyers Network for the Defense of Freedom of Expression in Iraq since 2014. At the same time, he is a media consultant to International Media Support (IMS). Previous positions include his work as a media specialist of the American University in Iraq, journalistic activities e.g. with the Washington Post in Mosul and Kurdistan, as chief editor for Wadi Al Rafidain or the Aswat al-Iraq news agency. Dlovan Barwari is a member of the Iraqi Association for Human Rights and of the International Federation of the Press as well as a founding member of the Iraqi Network for Investigative Journalism (NIRIJ). He received several awards for his work as an investigative journalist, among others, he won the first prize of the Ariji competition for the best investigative journalist in the Arab world and the first prize of the Lorenzo Natalie competition. BENKÖ, Cilla Cilla Benkö was appointed Director General and CEO of the Swedish Radio October 1, 2012. Since 2009, she held the position of Deputy Director General of Swedish Radio. Cilla Benkö has been working for Swedish Radio for more than 30 years and during this period she has had several management positions. Her journalistic career has not only involved assignments within public broadcasting. She has also worked as a freelance in New York for the Swedish commercial television and was Head of the News Department “Aktuellt”, Swedish Television. Since 2010 Cilla Benkö is one of eleven members of the EBU Executive Board and currently a member of the EBU Personnel Committee. BERGER, Guy Guy Berger is Director for Freedom of Expression and Media Development at UNESCO. He is responsible for the "Journalism can Organization’s global work on press freedom, safety of thrive through journalists, internet freedom, media pluralism and empowering all its independence, gender and media, media and information users, producers and literacy, and journalism education. He is also Secretary of consumers, to deploy UNESCO's International Programme for the Development of this form of free Communication (IPDC). Formerly, he headed the School of expression for the Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, benefit of humanity" Grahamstown, South Africa. Guy Berger holds a Doctorate in Philosophy, from Rhodes University, has published extensively, and has won several awards. BEUTH, Marie-Catherine "Focus on the right Marie-Catherine Beuth is the founder of News On Demand, stories. Focus on the a mobile app that tailors news to the user’s available time right metrics. Be an and attention. Prior to her entrepreneurial venture, Beuth agent of was a business journalist for the French daily newspaper Le knowledge." Figaro, covering digital media and technology for almost 10 years. It was there that she formed the idea for a news service that personalizes content around the user’s time. This became the innovation proposal she worked on during a 2012-2013 John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. In 2014, she launched NOD with the support of a grant from the Knight Prototype Fund. BLICHER BJERREGARD, Mogens Mogens Blicher Bjerregård has been president of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) since May 2013. In this position, he has the political responsibility of the development of the organization to be able to provide EFJ’s affiliates representing 300.000 journalists in 40 countries in European matters. This includes both trade union and authors’ rights topics and media freedom related issues such as ensuring pluralism, ethical standards, access to information, protecting of sources, self-regulation of media and not least safety for journalists. He was formerly Member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), and is a member of the Council and Bureau of The International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), UNESCO. BOKOVA, Irina Irina Bokova, born on 12 July 1952 in Sofia (Bulgaria) has been the Director-General of UNESCO since 15 November 2009, and reelected for a second term in 2013. Before, Irina Bokova was Minister for Foreign Affairs, Coordinator of Bulgaria-European Union relations and Ambassador of Bulgaria to France, Monaco and UNESCO). As Director- General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova is actively engaged in international efforts to advance quality education for all, gender equality, cultural dialogue and scientific cooperation for sustainable development and is leading UNESCO as a global advocate for safety of journalists and freedom of expression. BOŠS, Edjis Edijs Bošs is lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Latvia and European Studies Department of Riga Stradiņš University. He previously worked as news correspondent for LNT (Latvian Independent Television), as correspondent in Estonia for the Newspaper Diena, as well as news correspondent for LTV (Latvian Public Service Television) and news caster for TV3. Edjis Boss holds a bachelor’s degree in Media Studies from the University of Estonia, a master’s degree in Contemporary European Studies from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in International Studies from the University of Cambridge. His academic specializations are U.S.-Baltic relations, history of EU political integration, EU foreign and security policies, international history of Europe 1648-1945 and Cold War international history 1945-1991. BOTSFORD FRASER, Marian Marian Botsford Fraser is the Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International. She is a Canadian writer and broadcaster and author of four acclaimed nonfiction books. Her most recent book is Acting for Freedom: Fifty “Journalism thrives Years of Civil Liberties Activism in Canada. She is also a when impunity and journalist and critic, writing critical and feature pieces for corruption are publications including GRANTA, The Globe and Mail, The weeded out and Walrus, The Literary Review of Canada and MORE. She has freedom of written and produced numerous documentaries for CBC expression Radio’s IDEAS, hosted CBC Radio programs and educational commitments are TV shows on public issues. In the early 1990s she was co- honoured robustly by ordinator for the Canadian Arctic Council project and also governments.” did