EducationKeynote Speakers
Kaarle Nordenstreng, PhD
Kaarle Nordenstreng is professor emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Tampere. Before joining this Scandinavia’s oldest institution of journalism education in 1971, he worked as head of audience research at the Finnish Broadcasting Company. Earlier, as…
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Tudor Vlad, PhD
Dr. Tudor Vlad is the Associate Director of the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at the University of Georgia. Dr. Vlad came to the Cox Center of the University of Georgia in September…
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Jiří Pehe
Currently Director of NYU in Prague, Jiří Pehe was director of the Political Department of Czech President Václav Havel from September 1997 to May 1999. He serves as chairman of the Program Committee of the Forum 2000 Foundation that organizes…
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Jan Urban
Jan Urban, who has recently worked on several projects in Iraq training journalists and working on building reconciliation measures through the reconstruction of cultural heritage sites, was one of the leading dissidents under the communist regime. In 1974, he graduated…
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Jeffrey Gedmin
Jeffrey Gedmin is Co-Director of the Transatlantic Renewal Project at the World Affairs Institute and Journal in Washington, DC. Additionally, he is a Senior Fellow at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Masters Program and a Senior Fellow at the Institute…
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Grzegorz Piechota
Head of Editorial Development and Social Campaigns, Gazeta Wyborcza & Vice-President, Agora Foundation, Warsaw, Poland As a head of editorial development and social campaigns of the biggest quality daily newspaper in Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza, Grzegorz Piechota moves communities and provides…
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