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Dr Patricia Edgar, AM – Chair
Dr Patricia Edgar AM. Founder and inaugural head of the Australian Children’s
Television Foundation (ACTF). She was the architect of the Australian Children’s
Television Standards and founder of the World Summit Movement, hosting the first
World Summit on Media for Children in Melbourne in 1995. She is a teacher, researcher,
producer, writer and experienced policy maker. Her programs have garnered more than
100 national and international awards. She is the author of 10 books, numerous articles
and reports and widely recognized as an authority in the media field
Website www.patriciaedgaranddonedgar.com
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Anna Home, OBE – Deputy Chair
Chief Executive,
The Children’s Film and Television Foundation. Chair of The Second World Summit
on Television for Children held in London, 1998 (www.thechildrensmediaconference.com, www.savekidstv.org.uk). Director, Producer and Executive
Producer for BBC TV's Children's programmes for over two decades, she specialised
in children's dramas. In 1986 she returned to the BBC as Head of Children's Television
after helping setup TVS, and was responsible for more than 1,000 hours of programming,
including 'Teletubbies'. She has been a member of the Councils of BAFTA and the
RTS and chaired the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) Children's Group for many
years. She is a trustee of The Prince of Wales Foundation for Children and the Arts
( CATA); Chair of Save Kid's TV (SKTV) and The Children's Media Conference (CMC)
and a board member of The Unicorn Children's Theatre.
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Adrian Mills - Deputy Chair
Adrian Mills, Head of Business & Planning, BBC Children's. Before returning to the
BBC in 2009, Adrian was Chief Executive of LGT, Head of Children's for TVO and CBC
Canada, and Chair of Summit 2000 - Children, Youth and Media Beyond the Millennium
held in Toronto, Canada.
Adrian has over 20 years' leadership experience in education and broadcast media,
responsible for the delivery of programmes on television, radio and online. He has
commissioned, scheduled and produced programmes for adults and children for public
service broadcasters in Canada and the UK. A dual British and Canadian citizen,
he is a UNICEF International Emmy Award winner and sits on the board of the World
Summit Foundation for Children and Media. He is a member of the British Academy
of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
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Per Lundgren
Director of The World Summit On Media for Children and Youth,
Karlstad Sweden 2010.
Per studied International Relations in Sweden with a focus on developing countries.
He has an M.A in Education from Greenwich University in London U.K. with focus on
international project management. His studies include work with teachers in film,
radio, television, theatre, journalism and advertising. He has written scripts for
Swedish radio and television, articles for newspapers and media magazines, produced
video and radio programs and written seven training books for media education in
the Scandinavian countries. He lectures at Karlstad University in Media and Communication
Studies.
His international experience over the past decade includes work with:
- United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UN AoC). He is a Member of the group
of founders of UN AoC Media Literacy Education Online Clearinghouse;
- Council of Europe, Strasbourg on "Human Rights in the Information Society";
- Unicef - Havana International Film Festival Jury;
- Unesco - Member expert group for Unesco Media and Information Literacy Curriculum.
He was also Coordinator of the European Schoolnet Virtual School Media Department,
www.eun.org, Media Literacy Expert for the European Commission, and Project Manager
for the European Commission supported project Alliance for a Media Literate Europe,
www.allmediaeurope.se (2002-2004)
2010 Summit Website www.wskarlstad2010.se
Email:
info@wskarlstad2010.se
Personal contact email address: mediebok@hotmail.com
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Dr Javad Mottaghi
is currently the Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD).
He was appointed as the next Secretary-General of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) on 8 January 2010.
He holds a Bs. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tehran Sharif University of Technology,
Masters Degree in Management and is a PhD. Candidate in Management from the University
of Teesside, England. He is also a member of the Board for the World Radio & Television
Council (WRTVC) since 2001. Dr Mottaghi is currently Associate member of The International
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in New York and a member of The International
Academy of Television and Radio in Russia since December 2002. With his vast experience
in broadcasting over the past 30 years, Dr Javad Mottaghi has been specifically
tasked by the Governing Council to implement the Institute's new Strategic Plan,
formulated by a special task force, to propel the AIBD into the next millennium
Dr Mottaghi
has 30 years of national and international experience in media/communication in
the following areas: International Affairs, Media/Communication Development and
Broadcasting, AV productions and co-production, ICTs, capacity building, networking,
research, publications, negotiations, fund raising, news and programming for radio
and television, social and cultural television programs and sports coverage.
Dr Mottaghi was awarded with the Elizabeth R Award for Exceptional Contribution to Public Service Broadcasting. The award was presented by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) during its General Assembly in Tonga on 11th February 2009.
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Patricia Castano
Founder Citurna Productions and Imaginario.
Patricia studied Social Science, in Colombia and Wales (UK) and Direction and Television Production at the BBC/ Open University and Elstree TV training centre. She has worked with the BBC as local producer for the series Made in Latin America. In 1986, with colleague Adelaida Trujillo she founded CITURNA PRODUCCIONES - a leading production house for children's and educational television as well as social, political and environmental documentaries in Colombia. Citurna's productions have been commissioned by European public TV, awarded international distinctions (those for children include INPUT, EMMY, IDFA, Prix Jeunesse and Prix Jeunesse Iberoamericano).Documentaries have been broadcast by more than 30 international channels.
From the mid 90s Citurna, developed local television series with the support of multimedia educational strategies, aimed at youth and children, the priority audiences which need to be addressed, to promote social change in Colombia and Latin America.
In 1999, Patricia with other important professionals, created Imaginario, a multidisciplinary, non profit organization to promote the use of television and media for social change and development. Imaginario's activities include public debate, capacity building and influencing public policy; production, knowledge management and networking. Since 2000, Imaginario and Citurna have organized TV de Calidad, Colombia's annual international TV screening conference, which showcases the Prix Jeunesse Suitcase and INPUT and brings leading children's television experts and projects from all over the world.
Since 2004, Imaginario has led - with the support of UNICEF, the Prix Jeunesse Foundation, the National TV Comission and the First Lady's office - the Compromiso Nacional de Televisión de Calidad para la Infancia en Colombia - a national commitment to improve the quality of children?s television in Colombia. Patricia also presides over a voluntary organisation, Bibloamigos, friends of the Bogota public libraries (www.bibloamigos.org).
E-mail: patriciacastano@yahoo.com
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Regina de Assis
EdD, Columbia University, EdM and CAS, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA.
Former Brazilian Professor of Education, Secretary of Education to the City of Rio (1993/1996), Founder and President (2001-8) of MULTIRIO, The Municipal Multimedia Company connected to more than one thousand early childhood and elementary schools in Rio. As President of MULTIRIO Regina produced many award winning programs for television, and books for children, teachers and parents.
She was the Chairperson of the 4th World Summit for Children and Adolescents in Rio in 2004 in partnership with ANDI, the Brazilian National Agency for the Rights of Children, UNICEF, UNESCO , Midiativa and Cecip. The Rio Summit, under the theme "Media from All, Media for All", gathered 3000 media and education professionals and 150 adolescents representing the five continents. The two Charters of Rio, one produced by the professionals and the other by adolescents, summarized the main goals reached by the World Summit Movement in 2004. The Rio World Summit Documentary was produced by Regina and MULTIRIO's team.
Regina is a member of the group of founders of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations , UNAoC , Media Literacy Education Online Clearinghouse, a member of the Oversees Council for the European Observatory for Children´s Television (OETI) based in Barcelona, Spain . She has been a consultant for UNESCO and is Chairperson of the International Seminar on Audio Visual for Children and Adolescents in São Paulo, Brasil 2010.
Email for contact : rdeassis@uol.com.br
Blog HUMANO : www.humanobr.blogspot.com/
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Ellen Ann Wartella, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication and Director of the Centre for Media and Human development at Northwestern University USA, Dr. Wartella is a leading scholar of the role of media in children's development. Currently she is a co-principal Investigator on a 5-year multi-site research project entitled: "IRADS Collaborative Research: Influence of Digital Media on Very Young Children" funded by the National Science Foundation (2006-2011). She was a co-principal Investigator on the National TV Violence Study (1995-1998) and a co-principal Investigator of the Children's Digital Media Center project funded by the National Science Foundation (2001-2006). She serves on the Board of Trustees of Sesame Workshop (www.sesameworkshop.org), the National Educational Advisory Board of the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus,
The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity and Harvard’s Center on Children’s Media and Children’s Health. She recently served on the Institute of Medicine's Panel Study on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth (2006) and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Children Youth and Families (2002 – 2007). During 2006-2007 she was the Inaugural Senior Fellow of the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Research in Child Development and is the past President of the International Communication Association. She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008. Between July 2004 and March 2009 she was Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California, Riverside and between 1993 and 2004 was Dean of the College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Wartella earned her Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota in 1977 and completed her postdoctoral research in developmental psychology in 1981 at the University of Kansas.
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Julieta Machimuassane Langa
Senior Lecturer and Head of the Linguistics Section at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Eduardo Mondlane University-UEM. President of the Provisional Executive Committee of Broadcasting Regulation and Cultural Diversity Network-BRCD, and Honorary President of the African Communication Regulatory Authority Network-ACRAN/RIARC.
Julieta has 34 years of professional experience in the academic, public and social spheres including:
(i) Lecturer and member of academic boards, university committees, management teams and socio-professional organizations at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM);
(ii) Dean Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences UEM;
(iii) Head Secretariat of the Assembly and Maputo Executive City Council;
(iv) Activist and member of leadership teams in women organizations at local, national, and African regional level;
(v) Chairperson for the National High Council for Social Communication (CSCS) of the Republic of Mozambique;
(vi) President of the African Communication Regulatory Authorities Network (ACRAN/RIARC);
(vii) Member and President of the Provisional Executive Committee of the Broadcasting Regulation and Cultural Diversity Network (BRCD);
(viii) Advisor and member of the Committee of Councilors and the Executive Committee for the formulation of the Mozambican "Agenda 2025: Vision and Strategies of the Nation";
(ix) Member of Steering Committees for the National Human Development Reports and for the National Campaign for the Millennium Development Goals;
(x) Member of the Mozambican African Review Peers Mechanism Forum (MARP/NEPAD); Consultant and trainer in national media institutions.
She speaks Rhonga, Shangana, Portuguese, English and French.
e-mail: Julieta.langa@uem.mz or julietalanga@hotmail.com
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Michail D. Maniatis
Film producer, author, actor, diplomat, co-founder of the European Centre for Television and Children (ECTC)
Michail studied Developmental Psychology, Economics and Music.
In 1982 he wrote, produced and acted in his first feature movie, Angelos which won 5 major awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and screened at the Cannes, Chicago, San Francisco and Rotterdam Film Festivals, winning 13 international awards. The film was the official entry from Greece at the American Film Academy Awards and was also a commercial success.
In 1983 Michail produced and was the lead actor in Rembetico which won 17 international awards.
Angelos and Rembetico are listed among the 10 best movies ever made in Greece.
Michail was appointed Head of International Relations at the Ministry of Culture by Melina Merkouri, Minister of Culture.
From 1991 he pursued a political career as a founding member of the new political party POLITIKI ANIXI. In 1992 he was appointed Director at the National Broadcasting Authority where he developed new legislation for children and media. He founded, with Athina Rikaki, ECTC and became Vice President. He also launched the first Television Station for children (Junior TV). In 2001 ECTC hosted the 3rd World Summit on Media for Children in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Michail was appointed Good-will Ambassador for the promotion of the Olympic Truce 2001-2 by the Greek Government.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, G. Papandreou appointed Michail the First Greek Ambassador to Afghanistan.
Michail D. Maniatis was decorated for his social services by the President of Greece.
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Chris Lovell LLB, BA, LLM
National Managing Partner - Holding Redlich, Director - Clemenger Group Limited, Director - Victorian Rail Track Authority,
Trustee - Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust, and Chair - Melbourne Community Foundation.
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