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Conference on <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong> 2011<br />

international and cross-cultural communication and research, and ethical issues in corporate<br />

communication.<br />

L. Simone Byrd is an Assistant Professor in the Department of <strong>Communication</strong> at Alabama State<br />

University, where she teaches courses in public relations. She received her doctorate in Mass<br />

<strong>Communication</strong> and Media Studies from Howard University (2008), a certificate from the graduate<br />

program in <strong>International</strong> Studies from Howard University (2006), the MA in <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong><br />

from Baruch College, City University of New York (2004), and a BA degree in Mass <strong>Communication</strong> with<br />

an emphasis in Public Relations from Alabama State University (2000).<br />

Lou Capozzi serves as an adjunct professor in the New York University Master of Science program in<br />

Public Relations and <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>s. Until his retirement last year, Capozzi was chairman of<br />

the Publicis Public Relations and <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>s Group, which includes all of the public<br />

relations firms and related agencies in the world’s 4 th -largest communications holding company. He had<br />

been CEO of MS&L, one of the world’s largest public relations firms, when it was acquired by Publicis in<br />

2002. Capozzi was formerly vice president of corporate communications for Aetna Life & Casualty, the<br />

nation's largest public insurer. A journalism graduate of New York University, he holds an MBA in<br />

Finance from Bernard Baruch Graduate School of Business. Capozzi also served as president of the<br />

<strong>International</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>s Consultancy Organisation (ICCO), where he was inducted into the Hall of<br />

Fame last year. He was a founding board member of the U.S. Council of PR firms, is a member of the Arthur<br />

Page Society, and an accredited member of PRSA and a member of its College of Fellows. Widely<br />

published in professional and business journals, Lou is also a frequent speaker at public relations industry<br />

events around the world.<br />

Eraldo Carneiro is Head of Planning & Management in the <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong> Department at<br />

Petrobras, one of the world’s five largest energy companies. For more than twenty years, he has been<br />

working in <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>s at Petrobras, where he also worked as Advertising Manager and<br />

Public Relations Manager. He is President of the <strong>Communication</strong> & Education Chamber of the Brazilian<br />

Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS) and Vice- President of the Brazilian Association<br />

of Business <strong>Communication</strong> (ABERJE). Carneiro holds a MBA in Marketing from the University of São<br />

Paulo (USP), a post-graduate degree in Human Resources from the Catholic University of Salvador (Bahia-<br />

Brazil) and a BA in Social <strong>Communication</strong>s from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is also a<br />

Professor at Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing – ESPM (Advertising & Marketing School) in Rio<br />

de Janeiro, Brazil.<br />

Ângela Carrato holds a Masters degree in Social <strong>Communication</strong>s from the University of Brasília, Brazil,<br />

and is a doctoral candidate in <strong>Communication</strong> Policies at the same institution. She is a faculty member of<br />

the Department of Social <strong>Communication</strong>s at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Professor<br />

Carrato has been Editor for Politics at Diário do Comércio, one of the leading daily newspapers in the city<br />

of Belo Horizonte, for 15 years. From 2003 to 2005 she was President of Rede Minas de Televisão, the<br />

educational television network of Minas Gerais state. She also has a large amount of experience in political<br />

PR. From 2006 to 2010 she served as <strong>Communication</strong>s Coordinator at the Brazilian Ministry of Social<br />

Development and Fight against Hunger in Brasília. Her research and teaching interests include Journalism<br />

History, Public Television and Radio Broadcasting, <strong>Communication</strong> and Social Movements, <strong>Corporate</strong><br />

<strong>Communication</strong>, and New <strong>Communication</strong>al Technologies.<br />

Suwichit (Sean) Chaidaroon, Ph.D.,
 is Assistant Professor in the Wee Kim Wee School of<br />

<strong>Communication</strong> and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His interests include<br />

corporate and organizational communication. Currently, he is investigating CSR communication as well as<br />

the issues of health and fairness in employee relations in Southeast Asia. Chaidaroon is originally from<br />

Thailand. He taught in California and Australia before moving to Singapore.<br />

Cheng Lee Ching is a student in the Master of Mass <strong>Communication</strong> Programme at the Nanyang<br />

Technological University, Singapore. She has more than 25 years of working experience in the public<br />

relations industry, having managed communication portfolios in both the public and private sectors in<br />

Singapore. She has also served as a PR consultant to government agencies, where she was involved in<br />

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