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Dr
Patricia Edgar, AM – Chairman
Dr Patricia Edgar AM. Founder and inaugural head of the Australian Children’s Television Foundation. 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, academic, producer, writer and experienced policy maker. Her programs have garnered more than 100 national and international awards. She is the author of 8 books, numerous articles and reports and widely recognized as an authority in the media field
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Anna
Home, OBE – Vice-Chairman
Chief
Executive, The Children’s Film and Television Foundation. Chair
of The Second World Summit on Television for Children held in London,
1998. 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 Board member of Telemagination, the Polka
Theatre for Children and is the Chair of Cinemagic.
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Dr Regina de Assis
President, Multirio and Chair of the 4th World Summit on Media for Chlidren and Adolescents held in Rio de Janeiro in 2004. On leave of absence from her post as Professor of Educational Psychology at the State and Catholic Universities of Rio de Janeiro, Regina is the creator of Riomedia, the International Reference Centre of Media for Children and Adolescents.
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Dr. Javad Mottaghi
Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcast Development (AIBD). 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 28 year, 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 28 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.
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Dr Pär Lundgren, University of Karlstad
For the City of Karlstad and Karlstads University Media and Communication studies Pär is the Director of the 6th World Summit Congress On Media for Children and Youth in Karlstad Sweden 2010, (www.wskarlstad2010.se)
He is a member of the European Charter for Media Literacy steering group (www.euromedialiteracy.eu) included in the European Commission Media Program and engaged by the European Forum and the Group of Specialists on “Human Rights in the Information Society” at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
Pär has an exam from international relations studies with a focus on developing countries, and a Master of Art in Education at Greenwich University in London U.K. with a research project on the development of projectivity in the public sector by adaption of a projectivity method from Swedish international telecom company Ericsson. After the exam from University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre in Stockholm, Poppius Journalist School and RMI Berghs Practical marketing and advertising in Stockholm and Teachers Training College in Karlstad, he published scripts for Swedish radio and television, articles for newspapers and media magazines and a number of training books for media education in the Scandinavian countries.
In 2002 he completed a research study for the European Commission Dg Education and Culture called "Media Literacy and Image education in Denmark, Finland and Sweden". Between 1999-2005 he co-ordinated the European Schoolnet Virtual School Media Department, www.eun.org and was Project Manager for the European Commission supported project Alliance for a Media Literate Europe, www.allmediaeurope.se 2002-2004.
www.wskarlstad2010.se
Email: info@wskarlstad2010.se
Phone: +46703746377
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Adrian
Mills
Adrian Mills Chief Executive, London Gifted & Talented. Chair of Summit 2000 – Children, Youth and Media Beyond the Millennium held in Toronto, Canada.
Adrian Mills has over 15 years' senior management experience in education and broadcast media, responsible for the delivery of programmes on television, radio and online.
With a background in education and child psychology, Adrian began his career at BBC Television, directing and producing series such as The Really Wild Show, Record Breakers and Play School. In 1991 he emigrated to Canada where, as TVOntario's creative head of children's and education programming, he more than doubled the children's audience and pioneered the early introduction of digital media. He went on to become Head of Children's, Youth and Daytime Programming for CBC TV. He then left children’s programming and became Managing Director of the CBC's news and information website, cbc.ca. In 2000 Adrian was appointed executive director of CBC Radio, responsible for news and current affairs, music and arts programming. During his tenure CBC Radio attained the highest audience shares in its history.
After leaving the CBC in 2004 Adrian became a management and creative consultant working with producers and broadcasters in Canada and the UK. A dual British and Canadian citizen, he is an 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), the Royal Television Society (RTS) and the Radio Academy.
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Chris Lovell, Senior Partner, Holding Redlich, Australia
Ellen Wartella, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, University fo Califormia Riverside, USA
Eugenia Liroudia, AGORA, Greece
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