Panellists

Ren Reynolds

Fri, 15 May 2009 10:04:00 +0000

Ren is the founder of the Virtual Policy Network a think tank dedicated to promoting policy discourse about virtual worlds and social media.
Ren has numerous media credits including BBC, MTV; G4 TV; BBC Radio 4, Radio 5 and World Service, NY Public Radio, Radio Sweden, and has been interviewed by New Scientist, Popular Science, The Guardian and many others.

Robert Amlung

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:09:00 +0000

Robert Amlung is Head of Digital Strategy at ZDF. He joined Germany's national Public Broadcaster in 2001 as deputy head of New Media, taking charge of the whole department in 2006.

Ioana Avadani

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Ioana Avadani is the executive director of the Center for Independent Journalism in Bucharest, Romania. She has an experience of over 15 years in the media field, having worked as a news agency editor, a TV editor and as a media developer with CIJ.

Richard A. Bartle

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:21:00 +0000

Richard A. Bartle co-wrote the first virtual world, MUD, in 1978; he has thus been at the forefront of the industry from its very inception.

Inge Brakman

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:14:00 +0000

Inge Brakman was member of the Dutch Media Authority (Commissariaat voor de Media) since April 1999 and worked before as secretary at the Dutch Association of Journalists. From 1 October 2006 onward, Inge Brakman acted as chairperson of the Dutch media authority.

Lyse Doucet

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:44:00 +0000

Lyse Doucet is a presenter and correspondent for both BBC World Service radio and BBC World News television.

Lyse's work has been recognised by major broadcasting awards. In 2007 she won the Association For International Broadcasting's International Television Personality award and Women In Film And Television's News And Factual award.

Adriano Farano

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:47:00 +0000

Adriano Farano is Executive Manager, Editor, Cafebabel which, in 2008, received the European Agenda Award of ‘Political journalist of the year’ after being nominated with Financial Times and Libération correspondents in Brussels.

Divina Frau-Meigs

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:52:00 +0000

Divina Frau-Meigs is a Fulbright scholar and student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, is professor of media sociology at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France.

Marjan Hammersma

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:18:00 +0000

Marjan Hammersma is director Media, Literature and Libraries at the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. In this function she is responsible for the Dutch media policy, which regards broadcasting, both public and commercial, the press and new media.

Birna Helgadottir

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:53:00 +0000

Birna Helgadottir was Senior Correspondent on the European newspaper between 1991-98, and subsequently freelanced for a wide range of media.

William Horsley

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:54:00 +0000

William Horsley is an experienced journalist and the international representative of the Association of European Journalists, an independent organisation of media professionals across Europe.

He speaks for the AEJ at the Council of Europe and other international organisations and is chairman of the AEJ's UK Section.

Dr. Karol Jakubowicz

Wed, 13 May 2009 11:45:00 +0000

Dr. Karol Jakubowicz is Chairman, Intergovernmental Council of the Information for All Programme, UNESCO. He worked as a journalist and executive in the Polish press, radio and television for many years. He has been involved in policy-making and regulation in the field of broadcasting in Poland and internationally.

Duska Jurisic

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:03:00 +0000

Duska Jurisic has been in journalism since 1986. Her current position is the editor-in-chief of News Program of Television of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Georgios Kipouros

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:06:00 +0000

Georgios Kipouros was born in 1987, Greece. He recently completed his BA (Hons) in International and European Studies at Panteion University of Athens; his dissertation work with the title "The Media, Youth Participation and Politics" focused on the role of media in fostering youth participation.

Ed Klute

Wed, 13 May 2009 15:37:00 +0000

Ed Klute is director of Mira Media since 1989. Mira Media, founded in 1987 by the national migrant organisations, is the Dutch National Centre of Expertise on Media and Diversity. Mira Media promotes the participation of immigrants in Dutch audiovisual, internet and print media. He is an advisor to the Council of Europe and the European Commission concerning Media and Diversity issues.

Srd Kisevic

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:10:00 +0000

Srd Kisevic has been a youth activist since his college years. He started his professional path working on democracy-building projects in his native Croatia.

Giuseppe de Martino

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:31:00 +0000

Giuseppe de Martino is since 2007 SVP, General Counsel and Head of Public Affairs at Dailymotion, the world largest independent videos sharing site.

Thomas Schneider

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:32:00 +0000

Thomas Schneider is the information society coordinator at the international affairs department of the Swiss Federal Office of Communication (OFCOM).

Jelena Surculija

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:33:00 +0000

Jelena Surculija graduated at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade in 2000. In 2005, she obtained the Master of Laws (LLM in Computer and Communications Law), at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

Fifi Schwarz

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:34:00 +0000

Fifi Schwarz is managing director of the Dutch Foundation for Newspapers in Education. As a representative for this organisation, she is member of ENPA's Working Group on Media Literacy and the Young Reader Committee of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN).

Malte Spitz

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:38:00 +0000

Malte Spitz is a member of the National Executive Committee of the German Greens (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). He has been a member of the National Executive Committee of the German Green Party since 2006.

Dr. Matthias Traimer

Wed, 13 May 2009 09:54:00 +0000

Dr. Matthias Traimer is Director of the Media Law Department, Federal Chancellery of Austria
and was Vice-Chair (2004-2006) and Chairperson of the CDMC (2007-2008).

Dr. Vatchkov

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:39:00 +0000

Dr. Vatchkov has been a Chairman of the State Agency for Information Technology and Communications since 2005. He also chairs the National Radio Frequency Council and the Interdepartmental Commission for Space Research.