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Beijing Olympics 2008: Winning Press Freedom 120 Gao Yu Freelancer, Winner of WAN's Golden Pen of Freedom, 1st UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize laureate She is well-known as a columnist both in the Chinese-language press of Hong Kong and in the United States. In 1988, she became assistant editor of a weekly economic review and was arrested and jailed for 15 months for her coverage of the 1989 Beijing democracy movement. On Oct. 2, 1993, two days before a planned visit to Columbia University, she was rearrested and given a six-year sentence for “revealing state secrets.” The World Association of Newspapers awarded her its Golden Pen of Freedom in 1995, and in 1997, she was the first winner of UNESCO's annual World Press Freedom Prize. Agnès Gaudu China editor, Courrier International magazine She has a MPhil in Chinese studies and spent two years on an exchange scholarship in China (1979-1981). She worked at Agence France Presse and Reuters before freelancing, reporting from China throughout the 1980s. In September 1989, she published a book (Ramsay) on the social effects of China’s “open door” economic policy. In 1997, she became China editor of the Paris weekly Courrier International, where she is in charge of selecting and editing materials from the Chinese press to illuminate current issues. In 2005, she conceived and directed a 116-page special issue, La Chine des Chinois: De Tian'anmen aux JO de Pékin (The China of the Chinese: From Tiananmen to the Beijing Olympics), devoted to change in China over 10 years. Merle Goldman Professor of History Emerita, Boston University She has a PhD in History and Far Eastern Languages, Harvard University (1964). She is a Research Associate at the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard. She has been an Adjunct Professor at the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute since 1998. She has published numerous books, including From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China, Harvard Press 2005, paperback 2007; Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era, Harvard Press, 1994; China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent, Harvard Press 1981, paperback 1987; Literary Dissent in Communist China, Harvard Press 1967, Atheneum paperback 1970; and China: A New History, Enlarged Edition, co-authored with John K. Fairbank, Belknap Press 1998, updated 2006. She has been editor or co-editor of eight other books on China and written more than 70 articles in scholarly journals and in The New York Review of Books, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New Republic and elsewhere. Guo Guoting (Thomas), Maritime and human rights lawyer He has 21 years of experience as a maritime lawyer and four years as a human rights lawyer. He has also taught law and has published 10 books on law and 500 essays and case studies. He is currently studying for an LLM degree at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He earned an LLB in international law in 1984 from Jilin University, Changchun, China. From 2002-2005, he was managing partner of the Shanghai Tian-yee Law Group, focusing on human rights cases involving dissidents and Falun Gong members. He has written extensively on maritime law.
Beijing Olympics 2008: Winning Press Freedom 121 Sharon K. Hom Executive Director, Human Rights in China Professor of Law Emerita of City University of New York's School of Law, Hom has more than 16 years' experience in Sino-American law training and legal exchanges, including as a faculty member and director of the China Center for American Law Study in China, and on the US-China Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China (1990- 2000). She also served as teaching faculty and program director of the US Clinical Legal Education Workshop at Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing (June 2000). She has published extensively on Chinese legal reform, trade, technology and human rights. Huang Xiaolu Expert on China's environmental issues She created the Huang Wanli Study Fund in Washington DC, in honor of her late father, a distinguished Chinese professor of water engineering who campaigned against the ecological disasters that he predicted would ensue from China’s major dam-building projects. He was publicly attacked, isolated, jailed and sentenced to hard labor over his opposition in the 1950s to the Sanmenxia Dam on the Yellow River. Huang has continued her father's campaign against mega-projects such as the Three Gorges Dam that risk upsetting the environmental balance. Alberto Ibargüen President, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation He is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and of its Spanish-language sister publication, El Nuevo Herald. During his tenure, The Miami Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes and El Nuevo Herald won Spain's Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism. After law school and service in the Peace Corps in Venezuela and Colombia, he practiced law in Hartford, Conn. until joining The Hartford Courant, and later Newsday in Long Island NY before moving to Miami. He was formerly Chairman of the Board of the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States and is now Chairman of the Board of the Newseum in Washington DC, a museum for free speech and free press. Libby Liu President, Radio Free Asia Named President in September 2005, Liu is responsible for execution of RFA’s mission to provide balanced, objective news to listeners in Asia where such news is unavailable. She was RFA Vice President for administration and finance 2003-2005. Before, she was Director of Administration & Strategic Planning of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She was earlier Director of Human Resources with San Jose, California high-tech firm Spyrus Inc. and Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco, prosecuting narcotics trafficking, armed robbery and domestic violence. Earlier positions in private law practice at San Francisco and New York firms focused on labor law. A native Californian, she is the daughter of Chinese immigrants.
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