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Beijing Olympics 2008: Winning Press Freedom 118 Conference speakers and moderators : Oystein Alme Director, Foundation Voice of Tibet He has been the director of the Voice of Tibet (VOT) radio from its start in 1996. It has been targeted from the start by systematic blocking from China against all its means of dissemination: short wave radio, satellite transmissions and the Internet. VOT strives to produce unbiased news and information on Tibet-related issues to Tibet and China, in both Tibetan and Mandarin. Timothy Balding Chief Executive Officer, World Association of Newspapers Timothy Balding was named Chief Executive Officer of the World Association of Newspapers, the global trade organization for the press industry, in November 2005. He had been its Director General since 1987, after joining WAN as Deputy director and editor of its magazine in 1985. Earlier, he worked for newspapers in Britain, including the Oxford Mail, and was a political correspondent for the Press Association. Jean-Philippe Béja Senior Research Fellow, International Relations Studies Center (CERI), Political Studies Institute (IEP-Sciences-Po), Paris Former scientific director of the Centre d'Etudes Français sur la Chine Contemporaine in Hong Kong, Béja is a CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) Senior Research Fellow. He was from 1993-1997 chief editor of the journals China Perspectives and Perspectives Chinoises. He specializes in contemporary Chinese politics. Recent publications include A la rechèrche d'une ombre chinoise, Seuil, 2004, on China's prodemocracy movement. Robert O. Boorstin Corporate & Policy Communications Director, Google, Washington, DC Robert Boorstin helps design and implement Google's strategies on a wide range of policy issues. He served more than seven years in the Clinton Administration, including as the President's chief speech writer at the National Security Council and as senior advisor to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Secretary of State Warren Christopher. Boorstin began his career as a reporter at The New York Times. Vincent Brossel Head, Asia Desk, Reporters Sans Frontières He has been in that post since 2000. He has conducted on-the-spot investigations and production of reports on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, China, Korea, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Tibet, and coordinated tRSFs research and other work in Asia.
Beijing Olympics 2008: Winning Press Freedom 119 Ronald J. Deibert Director, The Citizen Lab, Munk Center for International Studies, University of Toronto Deibert is Associate Professor of political science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Center for International Studies, University of Toronto - an interdisciplinary research and development center on the Internet and human rights. He is a co-founder and a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative, a research/advocacy project on Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide, and director of the Psiphon censorshipcircumvention software project. He has published numerous articles and two books on issues related to technology, media and world politics Bob Dietz Asia Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists Since 1977, Dietz has worked as a journalist in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States. In 1995, he moved to Hong Kong, where he spent seven years as a senior editor at Asiaweek. He later joined the World Health Organization, handling media relations and risk communication during the SARS and avian influenza outbreaks. At CPJ, he continues to report widely in Asia. Kathryn Dovey Program Manager, Business Leaders’ Initiative on Human Rights She has worked in various capacities in the field of business and human rights since 2004. Dovey was previously a legal officer and international tax advisor. In 2003, she obtained a masters degree in international human rights law from McGill University, Montreal. She is based in Paris, where she manages the BLIHR office. Fan Ho-Tsai Chairperson, Hong Kong Journalists Association Miss Fan has more than 20 years' journalism experience, in print, radio and TV news. She has worked for the Hong Kong Economic Times, Commercial Radio, and Asia Television. Her last full-time job was as news editor of Hong Kong Broadband Network, a 24-hour pay television station, where she ran daily newsroom operations. She became a freelancer in 2006, to allow her time to study at Hong Kong Baptist University for an MA in international journalism studies. Jocelyn Ford Chair, Media Freedoms Committee, Foreign Correspondents Club of China A Beijing-based freelance correspondent, Ford challenged self-censorship in Japan in the late 1980s, when she worked for Kyodo News Service and became the first foreign reporter assigned to the Japanese prime minister's press corps. She later became Tokyo bureau chief for US National Public Radio's premier business show, Marketplace. In 2001, she joined state-run China Radio International, where her program, Realtime Beijing, worked to overcome censorship rules and to broadcast accurate, balanced news. In 2002, Ford rejoined Marketplace, opening its Beijing bureau.
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