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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.