# Speakers

*To find the meeting agenda, please visit this page:*

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**Moderator:** Mira Milosevic, Executive Director, [GFMD](https://gfmd.info/)

### **Session 1: Media viability in fragile contexts**

* Peter Whitehead, Director of Communications, [Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)](https://www.mdif.org/)
* Fasika Tadesse, Correspondent, Bloomberg News, PRIMED implementation specialist
* Daniel Belayneh, CEO of the [ARTS TV Ethiopia ](http://www.artstv.tv)
* Behailu Shiferaw, PhD candidate at Northwestern University; former PRIMED Program Manager, [Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)](https://www.mdif.org/)
* Isabela Ponce, Co-founder, [GK ](https://gk.city)
* Clare Cook, Head of Journalism and Media Viability, [International Media Support (IMS)](https://www.mediasupport.org/)

### Session 2: Exploring the approaches to public subsidies

* James Deane, former Director of Policy & Research, [BBC Media Action](https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction)
* Dr. Francis Sowa, National Coordinator, [Media Reform Coordinating Group (MRCG)](https://mrcgonline.org/)
* Lela Vujanic, Regional Research Manager for Central and Eastern Europe, [SembraMedia](https://sembramedia.org/)
* Keiichi HASHIMOTO, Ph.D. Senior Advisor,  [Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)](https://www.jica.go.jp/english/)
* Marius Dragomir, Director of [the Center for Media, Data and Society ](https://cmds.ceu.edu)
* María Soledad Segura, Social Communication Faculty & Social Science Faculty, [Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina](https://www.unc.edu.ar)

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