Preparatory Meeting
Palais du Luxembourg, Paris
Friday 20th and Saturday 21st April 2001

List of Participants

NAME	ORGANIZATION
ALI, Owais Aslam	Chairman, Pakistan Press International (PPI) and Secretary-General of Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)
ALVES, Rosental	Professor & Knight Chair in International Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin; Former Executive Editor of Jornal do Brasil
ARAPOVA, Galina	Executive Director, Mass Media Defence Centre, Voronezh, Russia
BALDING, Timothy	Director-General, World Association of Newspapers
BERLINCK, Deborah	Geneva correspondent of O Globo
BESEAT-SELASSIE, Kifle	Director, Fond International pour la Culture ; Former Editor, Addis Soir
BITTERMANN, Jim	CNN Senior European Correspondent, Paris
BRAYNE, Mark	European News and Current Affairs Editor, BBC World Service
COLE, Jeffrey	Director, Center for Communication Policy, UCLA
HASELOCK, Simon	Temporary Media Commissioner, OSCE, Kosovo
HASS, Amira	Palestinian Affairs Correspondent, Ha’aretz, in Ramallah
HODGSON, Godfrey	Director of the Reuters Foundation Programme, Green College, Oxford University.Former Foreign Editor of The Independent of London
HUGH-JONES, Stephen	Senior Editor, The Economist
ISOMURA, Hisanori	President, Japan Cultural Institute, Paris; Former CEO of NHK-TV
JIRAK, Jan	Vice-Dean (Mass Communications) Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague
KOUCHNER, Bernard	French Minister of Health, former UN Governor of Kosovo
KRAEMER, Gilles	Deputy Director, Centre de Formation et de Perfectionnement des Journalistes, Paris
LAJOUS, Alejandra	Former CEO, Canal 11, Mexico City
LYNCH, Jake	Training Specialist in Caucasus & Indonesia
MALOVIC, Stjepan	Vice-Dean, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb and Director of the International Center for Education of Journalists
McGOLDRICK, Annabel	Training Specialist in Caucasus, Indonesia & Burma
MELÉNDEZ-MEDINA, Pedro	Chairman of the Board and CEO of CV-TV International and of Si-CV, Bogota
M’MEMBE, Fred	Editor-in-Chief, The Post, Zambia
PANITZA, Dimitri	Chairman, Free and Democratic Bulgaria Foundation, Paris; Former Managing Editor of Reader’s Digest, New York
PIGEAT, Henri	Former CEO of Agence France Presse; Former President of the International Institute of Communications, London
PUDDEPHATT, Andrew	Executive Director, Article 19, London
RAM, Narasimhan	Editor of newsmagazine Frontline and other publications of The Hindu, Chennai, Madras
RANSON, Jenny	Head of Corporate Communications at the Cabinet Office in London; Former CEO of Open Broadcast Network, Sarajevo
SAGHIYEH, Hazem	Editor, Tayyarat ('Trends'), weekly political supplement of El-Hayat, London
SANGER, Clyde	Canada Correspondent, The Economist ; former African correspondentfor The Guardian
SANGER, Penny	Peace and media awareness educator, public school system, Ottawa
SANTOS, Francisco	Editor-in-chief, El Tiempo, Bogota
SHER, Julian	JournalismNet (media portal and training site)
SHERMAN, Paddy	Former President, Southam Newspapers, Canada; representing the International Press Institute, Vienna
STEPHANE, Robert	Former CEO, Radio-Television Belge (French)
SULIMMA, Hans-Günter	Former German Ambassador to Canada and press spokesman for German Foreign Ministers Walter Scheel and Hans-Dieter Genscher
TEER-TOMASELLI, Ruth	Professor, Graduate Programme in Cultural & Media Studies, University of Natal, Durban.Board member, South African Broadcasting Corp.
THOMPSON, Mark	Director of Balkans Program, International Crisis Group
THOMPSON, Pat	Independent producer. Former senior news producer and executive with ABC and NBC News. Teaches media studies at American University of Paris.
WEBSTER, Norman	President, R. Howard Webster Foundation; Former Editor-in-Chief, The Globe and Mail , Toronto, and The Gazette, Montreal

OBSERVERS
McMICHAEL, Bruce	Journalist, Informa, UK
WEBSTER, Andrew	Student, Cambridge University, UK
ZINT, Martin	Reporter for Peace Research Information Unit, Bonn. Media trainer and journalist in conflict areas.

UPEACE REPRESENTATIVES
LEES, Martin	Rector
SPICER, Keith	Director, Media and Peace Institute
EIRIKSSON, Gudmundur	Dean of Cooperative Programs
DENNIS, Ameena	Research Associate, Program Development, Geneva office
CHITORAN, Dumitru	Ex-officio Member of the Council
DESSAU, Erling	Special Advisor to the Rector
EL-AMIR, Ayman	Consultant; former Chief of United Nations Radio and TV Service
ROSTAING, Jean-Pierre	Rapporteur