Speakers

Here you will find the list of speakers for the PRIMED Workshop on February 8

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Meeting agenda

Moderator: Mira Milosevic, Executive Director, GFMD

Session 1: Media viability in fragile contexts

• Peter Whitehead, Director of Communications, Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)

• Fasika Tadesse, Correspondent, Bloomberg News, PRIMED implementation specialist

• Daniel Belayneh, CEO of the ARTS TV Ethiopia

• Behailu Shiferaw, PhD candidate at Northwestern University; former PRIMED Program Manager, Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)

• Isabela Ponce, Co-founder, GK

• Clare Cook, Head of Journalism and Media Viability, International Media Support (IMS)

Session 2: Exploring the approaches to public subsidies

• James Deane, former Director of Policy & Research, BBC Media Action

• Dr. Francis Sowa, National Coordinator, Media Reform Coordinating Group (MRCG)

• Lela Vujanic, Regional Research Manager for Central and Eastern Europe, SembraMedia

• Keiichi HASHIMOTO, Ph.D. Senior Advisor, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

• Marius Dragomir, Director of the Center for Media, Data and Society

• María Soledad Segura, Social Communication Faculty & Social Science Faculty, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina