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Asian Center for Democratic Governance >> Freedom of Information for Good Governance
A Report by the Asian Center for Democratic Governance 6 - 8 August 2001 New Delhi, India |
Appendix 1 - Workshop PresentersMr. Gautam AdhikariSenior Consultant National Endowment for Democracy 1101 Fifteen Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20005-5002 USA Tel: 202-293-0300 Fax: 202-293-0258 E-mail: gautam@ned.org Website: www.ned.org Gautam Adhikari is a senior consultant at the National Endowment for Democracy. Mr. Adhikari served as executive director of The Times of India and was a senior consultant at the World Bank. He was a resident fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy (1987-89) and a Shapiro Fellow at George Washington University's School for Media and Public Affairs (1998). In 1998-99, Mr. Adhikari was project director of the NED's new global initiative, the World Movement for Democracy. His publications include Press Councils: The Indian Experience (New Delhi, 1971) and India: The First 50 Years (editor, London, 1997). Mr. Arun Bharat Ram President Confederation of Indian Industry 23, Institutional Area Lodi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 India Tel: (91) 11-4629994-7, 4626164 / 4625407 Fax: (91) 11-4626149 / 4633168 Arun Bharat Ram is the president of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2000/2001. A graduate in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan, Mr. Bharat Ram started his career in 1967 with the Delhi Cloth and General Mills Limited (now DCM Limited). In 1971, he came to be associated with SRF Limited, a company promoted by the DCM Group for manufacturing nylon tyrecord. He was appointed managing director of the company in 1975 and vice chairman in 1988. In the past, as the president of the Association of Synthetic Fibre Industry, chairman of the Indo-Korea Joint Business Council, and the chairman of CII for the Northern Region, Mr. Bharat Ram has made a significant contribution to improve the business environment in India. He is a trained and accomplished sitar player, and is also closely associated with the educational and cultural organizations started by his family. Ms. Yuen Ying Chan Professor and Director Journalism and Media Studies Centre Eliot Hall, University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 29645733 Fax: (852) 28588736 E-mail: yychan@hku.hk Website: http://jmsc.hku.hk Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong in July 1998, Yuen Ying Chan spent 25 years in New York City reporting and writing for English and Chinese dailies, most recently the New York Daily News. She has also reported and consulted for 60 Minutes (CBS), NBC News with Tom Brokaw, Dateline (NBC), and the PBS human rights program "Rights and Wrongs." With a mandate from the university's leadership, she founded the Journalism and Media Studies Centre in September 1999. Chan was a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, and a 1997-98 Freedom Forum Media Studies Center fellow in New York City. She has taught at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and has written for Hong Kong and U.S. publications, including The Nation magazine, the Village Voice, The Media Studies Journal, The Nieman Report, Ming Pao, The Hong Kong Economic Journal, and Yazhou Zhoukan (and Asia Weekly). Mr. Kavi Chongkittavorn Managing Editor The Nation Bangkok, Thailand E-mail: kavi@nation.nationgroup.com Kavi Chongkittavorn is managing editor of the Bangkok-based English newspaper, The Nation. He served as correspondent, a foreign news editor, and bureau chief in Phnom Penh (1988-89) and Vietnam (1990-92) before becoming executive editor of The Nation in 1996. He has also served in the ASEAN Secretariat as a special assistant to the Secretary General, and has been a Jefferson Fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii; a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford; and chairman of the Southeast Asian Press Alliance. Ms. Yvonne T. Chua Training Director Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism The Philippnies Tel: (632) 410-1383; 410-4768 to 69 Fax: (632) 410-1346 E-mail: bonchua@pcij.org Website: www.pcij.org Yvonne T. Chua has been the training director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and a regular writer for "i", a quarterly investigative reporting magazine, since 1995. She is also a professorial lecturer at the University of the Philippines, where she teaches journalism. Yvonne and her colleagues at the Philippine Center for Investigative Reports won the first prize in this year's Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Investigative Journalism for their series of report on former President Estrada and his wealth and abuse of power. Yvonne was also last year's winner for her report on corruption in the textbook procurement. Her book, "Robbed: An Investigation on Corruption in Philippine Education," won the National Book Awards for Journalism last year. Yvonne began her journalistic career in 1981 as a reporter of the Philippines Daily Express. In 1985, one year before the EDSA revolution, she joined the news desk of the then alternative newspaper, Ang Pahayagang Malaya. By the time she left the paper in 1994, she was the managing editor. Aside from "Robbed," Yvonne is co-author and editor of the book titled The Electronic Trail: Computer-assisted Research and Reporting in the Philippines, and editor of Uncovering the Beat: The Real-world Guide to Reporting on Government. She co-wrote the chapter on corruption in the Bureau of Immigration in the book, Porks and Other Perks: Corruption and Governance in the Philippines and a chapter on fiscal administration in the book Investigating Local Governments. Yvonne obtained her AB Journalism degree from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City in 1981. She was a Jefferson Fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii and Marshall McLuhan Fellow in Canada. Mr. Tarun Das Director General Confederation of Indian Industry 23 Institutional Area, Lodi Road New Delhi - 110 003 India Tel: (91) 11-4621874 Fax: (91) 11-463-3168 E-mail: tarun.das@ciionline.org Tarun Das is a graduate of Manchester University. Since 1963, he has experience in industry associations, and has been involved in supporting and promoting industry in its interaction with government, and developing trade and business links internationally. Currently, he is director general of the Confederation of Indian Industry, a national organization with direct membership of 3,800 companies, servicing and representing Indian Industry. CII provides information, advisory and consultative services to both government and industry, and promotes joint ventures, technology transfer and trade. Mr. Das is also chairman of the Associated Cement Companies. Mr. Paul Flather Secretary General The Europaeum 99 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6JX United Kingdom Tel: (44) (0)1865-284480 Fax: (44) (0)1865-284481 E-mail: paul.flather@europaeum.ox.ac.uk Paul Flather is an academic, and human rights activist and journalist who specialises in education and politics. His research is on Indian political development since independence, and particularly the democratic structures of India. He worked with dissident movements in Central Europe in the 1980s and with race equality groups in the UK. He was an elected member of the London Council in the 1980s, and chairman of the committee on post-school and higher education. He was also the founding chief executive of the Central European University. After running international and external programmes for Oxford University, he now runs the Europaeum, an association of European universities. Mr. Arun Jaitley Union Minister for Law, Justice & Company Affairs Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi 110001 India Tel: (91) 11-338-4567; 3387557 Fax: (91) 11-338-4241 E-mail: ajaitley@nde.vsnl.net.in Arun Jaitley graduated from Sri Ram College of Commerce in New Delhi and from the Faculty of Law at the University of Delhi in 1977. Mr. Jaitley has been practicing law before the Supreme Court and several High Courts in India since 1977. He was designated senior advocate in 1990. He was the Additional Solicitor General of India for the government of India in the year 1990. He has authored several write-ups on legal and current affairs. Shri Jaitley has been a member of the National Executive of the Bharatiya Janta Party since 1991. He also represents his party as a spokesperson on various forums, and was elected a member of parliament (Rajya Sabha) from Gujarat. Mr. Steven Gan Editor Malaysiakini No 2-4, Jalan Bangsar Utama 9, 59000 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Tel: (60) (-3) -22835567 Fax: (60) (-3) -22892579 E-mail: steven@malaysiakini.com Website: http://www.malaysiakini.com Steven Gan graduated in economics in Australia in 1989. He spent four years as a Hong Kong-based freelance journalist, traveling extensively around Asia and covering the Gulf War from Baghdad. He was appointed special issues editor for The Sun in 1994 and also wrote a weekly column, "Thursday with Steven Gan," where he had to frequently battle the paper's internal censors. In 1996, Gan was adopted by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience after he was arrested at the Asia Pacific Conference on East Timor (Apcet II); he was released after five days in prison. His last column on the Apcet II fracas was spiked by the editor and he resigned from the paper in protest soon after. He joined The Nation in Bangkok and was one of the newspaper's editorial writers for two years before co-founding Malaysiakini with Premesh Chandran. Ms. Melinda Quintos de Jesus Executive Director Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) 2/F Ateneo Professional Schools-Salcedo 130 H.V. dela Costa, 1227 Makati Metro Manila Philippines Tel: (632) 438-5728 Fax: (632) 84008891 E-mail: cmfr@surfshop.net.ph Website: http://www.cmfr.com.ph Melinda Quintos de Jesus is a founding member of the Board of Directors of CMFR. She has served as executive director of CMFR since 1989. Ms. de Jesus has worked as a journalist since the 1970s, writing as a columnist for leading newspapers in the Philippines. She edited TV Times, Balikbayan, and Veritas NewsWeekly. In 1985-86, she was journalist-in-residence at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 1994, she was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She was named Year 2000 Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Fellow for Professional Development. Mr. Steven Livingston Associate Professor School of Media and Public Affairs The George Washington University 805 21st Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20052 USA Tel: (202) 994-5888 Fax: (202) 994-5806 E-mail: sliv@gwu.edu Steven Livingston, associate professor with George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs, also holds a faculty appointment in the Elliott School of International Affairs. Mr. Livingston specializes in media and politics, particularly in relation to international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. His interests also include mass media, voting behavior, public opinion, and political socialization. He was a fellow at Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy in 1996 and is the author of The Terrorism Spectacle: The Politics of Terrorism and the News Media. Since 1992, Mr. Livingston's research interests have taken him to Russia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Mr. Narinder B. Mathur Adviser Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) 23 Institutional Area, Lodi Road New Delhi - 110 003 India Tel: (91) 11-4633461, 4629994 Fax: (91) 11-4601298/ 4633168 E-mail: k.rathakrishnan@ciionline.org Website: www.ciionline.org Narinder B. Mathur is an adviser for the Asian Center for Democratic Governance and for the Confederation of Indian Industry. He was previously head of the CII state offices of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh. Apart from this, he has 26 years of experience in the engineering and textile industries. He is a bachelor of science and hold a masters degree in administration from Calcutta University. Mr. Peter McSharry Project Assistant National Endowment for Democracy 1101 15th Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 Tel: 202-293-0300 Peter McSharry was Project Assistant for the Asian Center for Democratic Governance at the National Endowment for Democracy from November 2000 through August 2001. He has worked in refugee affairs with the International Rescue Committee in Southeast Asia, as well as with the U.S. Peace Corps in Sichuan province, China. He has also worked as a teaching associate with the University of Massachusetts. Mr. Roland Rich Director Centre for Democratic Institutions Research School of Social Sciences Australian National University 0200 ACT Australia Tel: (612) 6125-3265 Fax: (612) 6125-9726 E-mail: roland.rich@anu.edu.au Website: http://www.cdi.anu.edu.au Roland Rich took up the position of inaugural director of Centre for Democratic Institutions (CDI) at the Australian National University in July 1998. He has served on diplomatic postings in the Philippines, Burma, and France, and as Australian ambassador to Laos. Within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, he has served as legal adviser and assistant secretary of the International Organisations Branch. Mr. Sushanta Sen Deputy Director General Confederation of Indian Industry 23 Institutional Area, Lodi Road New Delhi - 110 003 India Tel: (91) 11-4601182 / 4629994 Fax: (91) 11-4601298 / 4633168 E-mail: s.sen@ciionline.org Website: www.ciionline.org Sushanta Sen is secretary general of the Asian Center for Democratic Governance. He is an honours graduate from Calcutta and a graduate member of the Institute of Exports, in London. After serving the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry for two-and-a-half years, when he was attached to the Indian Engineering Association, he has been with CII for the last 33 years. In 1981, he was posted to London, in charge of CII UK's office (and European work). He was elevated deputy director general of CII and is presently in charge of the various CII national committees, such as defense, industrial relations, public policy, and the Social Development and Community Affairs (SDCA) Council. Mr. Tarun J. Tejpal Journalist and Publisher Tehelka.com E-mail: tarun@tehelka.com Website: www.tehelka.com Until March 1, 2000, Tarun Tejpal was the managing editor of Outlook, India's premier weekly newsmagazine. In his 18-year career, he has reported for The Indian Express and The Telegraph, and been an editor with the India Today and The Indian Express groups. He is a co-founder of the publishing house IndiaInk, which first published Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. He has written for several international publications, including The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and Prospect. After Outlook and IndiaInk, tehelka.com is the third start-up project with which he is involved. Businessweek has named tehelka.com among the top ten upcoming e-ventures in the world, and as its CEO, Tarun has been listed among Asia's 50 most powerful communicators by Asiaweek. Mr. Arnold Zeitlin Director Freedom Forum Asian Center Offices 1502-03, 15th Floor Shui On Centre 6-8 Harbour Road Wanchai, Hong Kong Tel: (85) 2-2596-0018 Fax: (85) 2-2598-8818 E-mail: azeitlin@hotmail.com Arnold Zeitlin, a veteran wire service correspondent, is director of The Freedom Forum Asian Center and Library in Hong Kong. Zeitlin has worked as United Press International's vice president and general manager of the Asia Pacific region in Hong Kong. He has also been an Associated Press correspondent and bureau chief in Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Boston. |
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