Speakers
Confirmed speakers to date
Ken Ali
CEO, Caribbean New Media Group, Trinidad & Tobago
Salim Amin
Chairman, A24 Media, Kenya
Alison Bethel McKenzie
Executive Director, International Press Institute (IPI), Vienna, Austria
Ryan Blethen
Director, New Product Strategies, The Seattle Times, Seattle, USA
Kwame Boafo
Director, UNESCO Office in Kingston, Jamaica
Catalina Botero
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, OAS, Colombia
Curtis Brainard
Editor, The Observatory, Columbia Journalism Review, Columbia University, New York, USA
George Brock
Professor and Head of Journalism, City University, UK
Lovelette Brooks
News Editor, The Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica
Odette Campbell
Head of News, Grenada Broadcasting Network (GBN), St. George’s Grenada
Jacqueline Charles
Caribbean Correspondent, Miami Herald, Miami, USA
Jim Clancy
Anchor and Correspondent, CNN International, USA
Sheila Coronel
Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, USA
Maxie Cuffie
CEO & Publisher, Mirror Group Publications, Trinidad & Tobago
Poonam Dabas
Principal Correspondent, Doordarshan News, New Delhi, India
Carl-Eugen Eberle
Chairman of IPI; Former Director of Legal Affairs, ZDF - German Television, Mainz, Germany
James Fahn
Executive Director, Earth Journalism Network, Internews, Washington, DC, USA
Gustavo Faleiros
Gustavo Faleiros, Knight International Journalism Fellow; Journalist, O Eco, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Doug Frantz
Managing Director, Kroll Advisory Solutions; former Deputy Staff Director and Chief Investigator, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, USA
Wesley Gibbings
President, Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM), Trinidad & Tobago
Hajime Hikino
Senior Writer/Science News, Chunichi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan
Canute James
Director, Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC), University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
Andy Johnson
CEO, Government Information Services Ltd, Trinidad & Tobago
Ahmad Ibrahim
Head, Investigative Unit, Al Jazeera, Doha, Qatar
David Kaplan
Investigative Journalist, Global Center for Investigative Journalism, USA
Larry Kilman
Deputy CEO and Executive Director of Communications & Public Affairs, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), Paris, France
Frank La Rue
UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, OHCHR, Guatemala
Kwame Laurence
Online Editor, Trinidad Express Newspapers, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
Adriana León
Press Freedom Coordinator, Institute for Press and Society (IPYS), Lima, Peru
Juanita León
Director, LaSillaVacia.com, Colombia
Davan Maharaj
Editor & Executive Vice President, Los Angeles Times, USA
Kiran Maharaj
President, Trinidad & Tobago Publishers & Broadcasters Association (TTPBA), Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Labaran Maku
Minister of Information and Communication, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Lagos
Sano Malifa
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Samoa Observer, Apia, Samoa
Günther Mayr
Head, Science News Department, ORF, Austria
Dunja Mijatovic
Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE, Austria
Marjorie Miller
Latin America and Caribbean Editor, Associated Press, USA
Anthony Mills
Acting Deputy Director, International Press Institute (IPI), Vienna, Austria
Attila Mong
Journalism Consultant, Mertek Media Monitor; Editor, atlatszo.hu, Budapest, Hungary
Pavol Múdry
Founder and former CEO, SITA-Slovak News Agency, Bratislava, Slovakia
Verena Nowotny
Partner, Gaisberg Consulting; Former Spokesperson, Austrian Mission to the United Nations; Former Spokesperson of the Austrian federal chancellor, Vienna, Austria
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Prime Minister, Trinidad & Tobago
Anand Persaud
Editor-in-Chief, Stabroek News, Guyana
Peter Preston
Columnist, The Guardian and The Observer; former editor, The Guardian, London, UK
Eleanora Rabinovich
Director, Freedom of Expression Program, Association for Civil Rights (ADC), Argentina
Narasimhan Ravi
Director, The Hindu, Chennai, India
Javier Darío Restrepo
Head, Fundacíon Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), Colombia
George Maxwell Richards
President of Trinidad and Tobago
Geoffrey Robertson QC
Human Rights Lawyer, Doughty Street Chambers, UK
David S. Rohde
Investigative Journalist and Foreign Affairs Columnist, Thomson Reuters, USA
Charles M. Sennott
Executive Editor and Vice President, GlobalPost, Boston, USA
Galina Sidorova
Chairperson, Foundation for Investigative Journalism, Russia
Shena Stubbs
Senior Legal Advisor/Company Secretary, The Gleaner Group of Companies, Kingston, Jamaica
Dawn Thomas
Group Chief Executive Officer, One Caribbean Media Limited (OCM), Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Pansy Tlakula
Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
Marcela Turati
Journalist, Proceso, Mexico
Iryna Vidanava
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, 34 Multimedia Magazine, Minsk, Belarus
Yvette Walker
Night News Director, The Oklahoman, USA
John Yearwood
World Editor, Miami Herald, USA
Header photo by AP/Wally Santana
