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Yuwen Wu
News and Current Affairs Editor, BBC Chinese Service
Born in China, she was educated in China, Britain and Canada. She has been at the BBC
World Service since 1995 and is now in charge of news and current affairs output of the
BBC's Chinese Service. She has written and spoken extensively on Chinese affairs,
especially on the situation of the news media in China.
Henrikas Yushkiavitshus
Independent media consultant, Paris
Born in Lithuania, he was director of the Technical Center of the International Radio and
Television Organization, Intervision, in Prague. From 1971 to 1990, he was Vice Chairman
of the Soviet State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting (Gostelradio). From
1990 to 2001, he was UNESCO's Assistant Director General for Communication and
continues to advise UNESCO’s Director General. He participated in preparing and
implementing broadcast coverage of Olympic Games, starting in 1968, and organized
media coverage arrangements for the Moscow Olympics in 1981.
Zhang Yu
Coordinator, Independent Chinese PEN Center of International PEN
Born in Wuhan, China, he resides in Sweden. He graduated 1977 in chemical engineering
from Wuhan Institute of Chemical Technology, and taught there from 1977 to 1981. He
became a research assistant in the department of inorganic chemistry, Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH) in Stockholm in 1982, and was awarded a PhD there in 1987, before
serving as research and senior scientist from 1988-2005. Since 2003, he has been
Coordinator of the Writers in Prison Committee of the Independent Chinese PEN Center in
Stockholm. Since 2000, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the monthly magazine Nordic
Chinese Communication. He has also been active in the Swedish Section of Amnesty
International and the Federation for a Democratic China - activities that have led to his
banning from travel to his home country.