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<strong>Kiyo</strong> <strong>AKAsAKA</strong><br />

<strong>Kiyo</strong> Akasaka is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public<br />

Information. A career diplomat, Mr. Akasaka has served several multilateral organizations<br />

in different capacities. From 2003 to 2007, he was the Deputy Secretary-General of the<br />

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).<br />

From 2000 to 2001, he served as the Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations. He<br />

joined the Japanese Foreign Ministry in 1971 and was its spokesman on climate change<br />

issues for many years.<br />

<strong>KhAled</strong> <strong>AzAb</strong><br />

Khaled Azab holds a PhD in Islamic monuments from Cairo <strong>University</strong>. He has participated<br />

in several relevant conferences and published a number of books on archaeology. He has<br />

worked as an editor and correspondent for Al-Hayat, Afaq and other Arab newspapers. He<br />

headed an archaeological inspectorate between 1994 and 2001.<br />

<strong>Kiyo</strong> Akasaka Khaled Azab


huGo bArreto<br />

Hugo Barreto is the Secretary-General of the Roberto Marinho Foundation (part of the Globo<br />

media conglomerate), a Brazilian institution set up in 1997 to coordinate projects related to<br />

education, the environment, heritage and television.<br />

PAuline Couture<br />

Pauline Couture is an author and strategic communication consultant whose career has<br />

encompassed all aspects of broadcasting, including journalism, on-air performance,<br />

production, strategy, regulatory work and executive management. Her consultancy portfolio<br />

includes public and private sector clients, as well as foundations from Canada and around<br />

the world. She is highly sought-after as a public speaker and moderator in many fields. She<br />

is a language lover who writes and works in French and English, and is currently studying<br />

Mandarin.<br />

GeetA dhArmArAjAn<br />

Geeta Dharmarajan is a writer, editor and educator, as well as the Executive Director of<br />

Katha, a non-profit organization she founded in 1988. Her innovative, award-winning work is<br />

geared to uniting India’s different language communities. She views translation as a means<br />

of fostering unity, reinforcing diversity and offering the illiterate equity and the opportunity<br />

to participate in lifelong learning. Her efforts to further education and reduce poverty have<br />

brought change and introduced the joy of reading to 8 million women and children in slums<br />

and tribal villages.<br />

AzzA ezzAt<br />

Azza Ezzat holds a BSc in tourism and hotels from the <strong>University</strong> of Alexandria, and is<br />

currently studying for a master’s degree in caricature, humour and satire in ancient Egypt<br />

during the New Kingdom. During her career at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, she has organized<br />

numerous writing, calligraphy and inscription events, and participated in the editing and<br />

translation of several books, including History of Writing: From Ideogram to Multimedia,<br />

for which she received a prize from the Kuwait Foundation, How to Read Ancient Egyptian<br />

Language and Lost Languages.<br />

hugo barreto Pauline Couture<br />

Geeta dharmarajan<br />

Azza ezzat


AhmAd FAwzi<br />

Until recently, Ahmad Fawzi was Director of the UN News and Media Division. As a UN<br />

spokesman, he served in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor, and travelled the world with<br />

three Secretaries-General. He directed the UN Information Centre in London for six years.<br />

He joined the UN in 1992 as Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General, after forging a<br />

career in broadcast journalism, government and academia.<br />

GrAhAm FrAser<br />

Graham Fraser is Canada’s Commissioner of Official Languages and an author with 40 years<br />

of experience in the field of journalism. He studied at the <strong>University</strong> of Toronto, where he<br />

earned a BA and an MA in history. Over the years, he has held positions of ever-greater<br />

responsibility at various newspapers.<br />

He has been awarded honorary PhDs by the Université Sainte-Anne and the <strong>University</strong> of<br />

Ottawa, and has received the Public Policy Forum’s Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in<br />

Public Policy Journalism.<br />

isAbelle leGAre<br />

The Alliance of Civilizations is an initiative proposed by the President of the Government of<br />

Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, at the 59th General Assembly of the United Nations<br />

in 2005. The initiative seeks to galvanize international action against extremism through<br />

the forging of international, intercultural and interreligious dialogue and cooperation. The<br />

Alliance places a particular emphasis on defusing tensions between the Western and<br />

Islamic worlds. Isabelle Legare is the Alliance’s Youth Program Manager. One of their goals is<br />

to have a youth perspective in the media debate, on cross-cultural and interreligious issues.<br />

Aly mAher<br />

Aly Maher is an Egyptian diplomat and intellectual. After serving as an ambassador to<br />

France, he was appointed Secretary-General of the Arab Thought Foundation, where he<br />

played an important role in improving cross-cultural dialogue and presenting a global view<br />

of the Arab culture. From 2006 to 2008, he directed the Institute for Peace Studies, which is<br />

part of the Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement.<br />

Ahmad Fawzi Graham Fraser<br />

isabelle legare<br />

Aly maher


sozinho FrAnCisCo mAtsinhe<br />

Professor Sozinho Francisco Matsinhe holds a PhD in linguistics with special reference to<br />

Bantu languages from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).<br />

He has held different positions as a teacher and researcher at the National Institute for the<br />

Development of Education, an institution that operates within the Ministry of Education, in<br />

Maputo, Mozambique.<br />

In December 2009 he was appointed Executive Secretary of the African Academy of<br />

Languages (ACALAN), which is a specialized institution of the African Union Commission<br />

and is based in Bamako, Mali.<br />

jArbAs mAntovAnini<br />

Jarbas Mantovanini was formerly the Roberto Marinho Foundation’s Communication and<br />

Regional Manager in São Paulo. A graduate of the <strong>University</strong> of São Paulo’s Law School, he has<br />

always worked in the field of communication, directing educational TV shows, advertising<br />

campaigns and institutional videos. He holds an MFA in film production from Boston<br />

<strong>University</strong>. He has led projects to develop São Paulo’s Portuguese Language Museum and<br />

Football Museum, coordinating the content creation, research, licensing, production and<br />

communication processes.<br />

Antoni mir<br />

Antoni Mir began working for the Government of Catalonia in 2004, firstly as Secretary-<br />

General for Language Policy and later as Director of Linguamón – House of Languages,<br />

a public body that the same government and Barcelona City Council set up in 2005 to<br />

disseminate, protect and enhance the value of the planet’s linguistic heritage.<br />

A language studies graduate, he has developed a career as a manager and leader of cultural<br />

projects and organizations in the Balearic Islands and Catalonia.<br />

robert moroPA<br />

Robert Moropa’s professional career spans more than three decades. He began working as<br />

a regional librarian for the former Transvaal Provincial Administration before moving to the<br />

<strong>University</strong> of Fort Hare and then to the <strong>University</strong> of Transkei, where he held a number of<br />

positions. He has served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Bill & Melinda Gates<br />

Foundation’s Access to Learning Award. He is currently Director and Head of the Department<br />

of Library Services at the <strong>University</strong> of Pretoria.<br />

sozinho Francisco matsinhe jarbas mantovanini<br />

Antoni mir robert moropa


nomAzulu mdA<br />

Nomazulu Mda has been the SABC’s Manager of International Affairs for the past two years.<br />

She was previously responsible for international strategy and relations at the South African<br />

Ministry of Communications. She holds an MA in international relations from the <strong>University</strong><br />

of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and is currently writing a research report on<br />

broadcasting policy in southern Africa as part of a master’s degree in management in ICT<br />

policy and regulation.<br />

nohA omAr<br />

Noha Omar holds a BA in French language and literature from the <strong>University</strong> of Alexandria’s<br />

Faculty of Arts. In 1992, she obtained a Diplôme d’Etudes Françaises Approfondies from<br />

Paris-Sorbonne <strong>University</strong>. She has a wide-ranging professional background in a number of<br />

multinational organizations. She has held several positions at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina<br />

since joining the institution in 2001, and is currently Deputy Director of its Publishing<br />

Department. At present, she is studying for a master’s degree in the post-modern novel in<br />

French Literature.<br />

Chris rAinier<br />

Chris Rainier is a fellow of the National Geographic Society. He co-directs its All Roads<br />

Photography Programme and is in charge of photographic and video documentation for the<br />

Enduring Voices project. As a National Geographic Society photographer, he specialises in<br />

documenting indigenous cultures for the institution’s Cultures initiative. His life’s mission<br />

is to contribute to empowering indigenous peoples, helping them to use photography and<br />

technology to enhance their culture and preserve endangered languages. He assisted Ansel<br />

Adams in completing all his photographic and conservation projects between 1980 and<br />

1985.<br />

AnnA solé menA<br />

Anna Solé Mena holds a BA in humanities and an MBA. She has worked in international<br />

organizations since 1995, and at the European Commission since 2001. She speaks<br />

five languages fluently. Her career and personal situation have brought her into contact<br />

with many multilingual families (like her own), and she has conducted research into<br />

simultaneous language acquisition in children. She has recently published her findings in a<br />

book called Multilingües des del bressol. Educar els fills en diverses llengües [‘Multilingual<br />

from Birth. Raising Children in Different Languages’].<br />

nomazulu mda noha omar Chris rainier<br />

Anna solé mena


joie sPrinGer<br />

Joie Springer directs UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme, an initiative geared<br />

to raising awareness of the urgent need to preserve analogue and digital documentary<br />

heritage. The programme’s register currently lists 193 items from different countries<br />

around the world.<br />

Ms. Springer is also the UNESCO Project Coordinator for the World Digital Library, which aims<br />

to promote international and intercultural understanding and awareness, increase the<br />

volume of multilingual and culturally diverse content on the internet, provide resources for<br />

educators and contribute to academic research.<br />

hillAry wiesner<br />

Hillary Wiesner directs the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Islam Initiative, a foundation<br />

programme that aims to enhance the American public’s understanding of the diversity of<br />

Muslim societies, cultures and thought. The programme chiefly works with universities and<br />

also supports projects of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the USA’s National Endowment<br />

for the Humanities. Ms. Wiesner holds a BA in religion from Harvard, an MA on the ancient<br />

Mediterranean world from the <strong>University</strong> of Chicago and a PhD from Harvard’s Committee on<br />

the Study of Religion.<br />

Colin williAms<br />

Colin Williams is a research professor at the School of Welsh, <strong>Cardiff</strong> <strong>University</strong>. His main<br />

academic interests are sociolinguistics and language policy in multicultural societies, and<br />

ethnic and minority relations. He has previously taught in universities in Canada, England<br />

and the USA. Between 2000 and 2010, he served as a member of the Welsh Language Board<br />

(WLB), a position to which he was appointed by the National Assembly for Wales. Since<br />

April 2010 he has been an adviser to the WLB, concentrating on international aspects of<br />

language policy and intergovernmental relations.<br />

GustAvo win<br />

Gustavo Win, a Uruguayan-born American radio and television journalist, has been involved<br />

in international broadcasting with Voice of America since 1984.<br />

He has full oversight responsibility for different international training projects in the area<br />

of health journalism. He recently created and implemented health journalism workshops<br />

in Senegal, Kenya, India, Argentina and Panama. He is also responsible for developing and<br />

implementing workshops on ethics in journalism in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador,<br />

and Uruguay.<br />

joie springer hillary wiesner<br />

Colin williams Gustavo win

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