Founder & CEO -- Turkish Local TV Union (Ankara)Rivage, Thursday June 21, 11:00
Founder & CEO -- Turkish Local TV Union (Ankara)
Seyda Açikkol, who began to work at TRT Diyarbakir Radio as a producer after her graduation from the Press and Broadcasting Institution at Istanbul University, obtained a "first" in the examination organised by Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT); She then went to London for radio and television training at the BBC.
Back in Turkey, she worked as a programme producer and anchorwoman at the private television channels.
She went then to U.S.A. to study "T.V. journalism" at Stanford University.
Upon her return to Turkey, she produced various successful news and discussion programmes such as Anahtar (The Key), Olay Var (Action), Baskin (Surprise Attack), Kamera 1, Kirmizi Koltuk (Red Chair) and Basköse (Prime).
A. Seyda Açikkol, as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Local Televisions Union, has been working for almost two years on the organisation and rehabilitation of local televisions.
Castillo, Friday June 22, 11:00
Chief Operating Officer -- PVI Europe (Zaventem)
- August '01 - present: Chief Operating Officer, PVI Europe
- January '96 - July '01: Managing Director BMG Belgium / Dep. Managing Director BMG Benelux
- May '94 - Dec '95: Marketing Director Pepsi The Netherlands & Switzerland
- August '88 - April '94: Brand Manager Household Cleaner & Fabric Softeners, Procter & Gamble Benelux.
Castillo, Friday June 22, 16:00
General Manager -- Pro Radio (Milano)
Broadcaster since 1981, has worked both in local and national stations, private and public.
His responsabilities ranged from programming (Program Director at RADIO DEEJAY) to management (General Manager at RTL 102.5 from 1988 to 1993).
His main focus in radio has been on the station as a living being and on the company as a medium between advertising clients and listening clients...
Consultant from 1994, since 1999 general manager of PRO RADIO, the leading supplier of radio innovation.
Rivage, Wednesday June 20, 14:30
Co-owner, Editor in Chief -- ART TV (Belgrade)
1981-1991 ran a private company involved with different fields of culture and entertainment
1993-1998 Professor of Theory of Form at Senior High School for Design, Belgrade
1991-to present: founder, co-owner and Editor-in-chief ART TV-Culture Channel, Belgrade
Present function: as co-owner and Editor-in-chief has executive powers to take decisions on programme-making, from design to contents.
Castillo, Friday June 22, 14:30
Product Manager -- avision ag
Georg Boos works as a Product Manager in the System-Integration Department of avision ag, the leading supplier of Video-Audio-Technology in Switzerland.
Previously, he worked in the Media Industry as a Project Manager, and, after a few years, changed to the Telecommunications Market as a Business Development and Product Manager, now back in the Video/Audio Market at avision.
Georg Boos assists customers with engineering and the implementation of the newest technology in the Multimedia-Field.
Castillo, Friday June 22, 09:30
Technical Manager -- NO TELE (Tournai)
Rivage, Friday June 22, 16:00
Manager -- TELENOVA
Administration Manager of Famiglia Cristiana Magazine (1970 / 1986)
Administration Manager of Gruppo Audiovisivi Sanpaolo (1987 / 1990)
General manager of Telenova since 1990
Member of Board of NovaradioA since 1994
Castillo, Thursday June 21, 09:30
Manager -- Ema RTV
Journalist.
Manuel Chaparro is a full-time professor at the University of Malaga and he is the Director of the Andalusian Association of Municipal Radio and TV Broadcasting (EMA-RTV).
He has been responsible for UNED cultural programme planning, director of various radio broadcasters, programme editor, producer, scriptwriter and analyst.
Mayor of Vevey, National Councillor
Mayor of the Town of Vevey since 1990, Yves Christen is also a National Councillor and President of the Canton of Vaud Democratic Radical Party.
Mr. Christen was born in 1941, in Berne, and has a civil engineering background : apart from being a Director of a company active in this field in Vevey, he sits on various boards (public and private mandates). He is a keen sportsman and, when time permits, practises cycling, jogging and cross-country skiing.
Rivage, Friday June 22, 14:30
Member Board of Directors -- OLON-Organization of (Public) Local Broadcast Stations in the Netherlands (Nijmegen)
Producer/director of radio and tv shows on movies, architecture, arts, theatre and ballet.
Art and film critic. Organisation advisor for a government agency.
Co-founder of an access station in the town of Arnhem, the Netherlands.
International delegate to the International conferences of the Alliance for Community Media in Washington DC, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Tucson . Appointed member of the International Committee of the Alliance.
Participating on behalf of OLON in activities regarding the founding of a Pan-European platform for community- and access media Conferences in Brussels.
Castillo, Thursday June 21, 09:30
Rivage, Thursday June 21, 14:30
Head of Acquisition -- TV Global (Kosice)
TV Global, Head of Acquisition.
2000 - 2001 TV Global - Managing Director
1994 - 2000 MAC TV - TV NASA Director and PR
1993 - 1994 Priemyselná banka ( Industrial bank ) - PR Manager
1991 - 1992 MAC TV - Producer and Director
1989 - 1992 University of Economics - Deputy Dean
1979 - 1989 University of Economics - Senior Lecturer
1995 elected President of the City TV Foundation
1996 elected President of the Slovak Association of Local TV Broadcasters
1996 - 1999 Chairperson of the Steering Committee of annual Festivals of Local TV Broadcasters
1997 shop steward INPUT ´97
Chairperson of INPUT Kosice ´97 (International Public Television Screen Conference)
1998-present, President of the European Association of Local TV Broadcasters
2001 President of the Jury - MITIL 2001 Awards
Castillo, Wednesday June 20, 14:30
Media Consultant -- IREX/ProMedia Program for Serbia (Beograd)
Writer, producer, TV director.
Works as Trainer/Consultant for IREX/PROMEDIA, Washington DC, in Serbia.
Created and edited THE LOCAL TV IN 60000 WORDS AND A FEW PICTURES (Manual for Local TV Broadcasters, included 20 authors from five countries) for RTV BB, Bajina Basta (Published in 2001.)
Director of several documentary programmes.
Founded with Mrs. Eva Dekanovska and Mr. Marcel Dekanovsky CITY TV FOUNDATION for supporting local TV broadcasting (festivals, contacts, exchanging of programmes, know-how, co-productions, training, etc.) and Head of Programme and Development Department in Steering Committee at Festival of Local TV Broadcasters in Kosice (SK).
Rivage, Thursday June 21, 16:00
Manager -- Maison de l'image (Strasbourg)
After completing her university studies in audiovisual communication and management of cultural projects, she worked as a film-maker's assistant on several short films, then as a free-lance film-maker (realisation of institutional and\or ethnological films); for seven years, was responsible for production and programmes at a local television in the Jura (France).
Since 1998, has been responsible for the Image Centre, City of Strasbourg, backed by public resources.
Present mission
- federate an associative network, involved not only in the
conception but also in the realisation of televised broadcasts ;
- propose both a technical and artistic support ;
- assume the task of expert, also of professional counsellor
- contribute to the discovery of and emergence of young talents
- develop initiative and the information system
- promote audiovisual tools training
- encourage and engender initiatives
- anticipate new image reception data (web tv, virtual worlds, high
output, mobile internet etc).
- facilitate relations between professionals and amateurs
- consolidate the role of the Image Centre on the local audiovisual scene
- be the interface between users and partners
Rivage, Friday June 22, 09:30
Manager -- Vietnet.tv (Yverdon)
1973-1977, technical studies.
1977-2001, sound engineer at Radio Suisse Romande.
1998-1999, creates a FM radio station in Madagascar
1998-2000, develops a television project for the vietnamese community of Europe.
24.01.2001, launch of Vietnet.Tv, the very first Vietnamese television on the Web
Vice President -- 21st Century Digital Business
Systems Engineer - Communication Technologies, was born in Nice and is of French nationality. His professional career has spanned many a development in the technical/digital world of tv. One of his most recent projects has been the study of, putting into place and the launching of Libertytv.com, the first multimedia business application (tourism) using digital television by satellite and internet.
Jean-Marc has over the last few years been very much involved in digital/satellite developments in relation to television and radio applications, including, for example, the Digital « Bouquet » project 24 Programmes in collaboration with DirecTV.
As Technical Director over a period of 10 years with the AB Group, he was responsible for several of its subsidiary companies: this group, among its «firsts», was the first digital platform and private satellite operator in France, owning and operating its broadcast equipment - the Olympic Games in January 1996.
General Director -- Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM)
From 1970 to 1976 he studied law at the University of Berne.
In 1978 he qualified as a barrister and notary. He started his professional career in 1978 at Radio DRS. Until 1980 he was employed as Home Affairs Editor. He subsequently spent four years as Head of Consumer Broadcasts at Radio DRS. From 1984 to 1988 Marc Furrer worked as Federal Parliament correspondent for Radio DRS.
In 1988 he moved to the former EVED (now DETEC - Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communica-tions) where he worked for four years as personal political secretary to Federal Councillor Adolf Ogi.
Since 1992, the year when OFCOM was founded, Marc Furrer has been director of the Federal Office of Communications (OF-COM) in Bienne. With a team of 293 employees he is the regulator responsible for the drafting and implementation of legislation in the telecommunications sector as well as for radio and television. He is also responsible for management of the frequency spectrum and for supervising the performance of licensees.
Rivage, Saturday June 23, 09:30
Manager -- Radio Top / Tele Top
After completing his university studies in law at the universities of Zurich (Switzerland) and McGill University Montreal (Canada), he worked for a Swiss public relation company in Switzerland. Since 1984 he worked for a Swiss private radiostation in Winterthur. After 1986 he built up also a local TV Station in Winterthur.
In 1998 he became manager of Radio Top, one of the leading radio stations in Switzerland. One year later he became also responsible for the building up of Tele Top, the sister company for the eastern part of Switzerland.
Since 1990 he is member of the executive committee of the Swiss Private Radio Association VSP and since 1997 President and responsible for media politics.
Castillo, Thursday June 21, 09:30
Managing News Director -- TV Denmark 2 (Aalborg)
Managing News Director at Aalborg TVR group, a multimedia broadcast company. He has worked with radio, television and Internet media for 14 years, Head of News for 5 years. During this period, radio ANR and TV Denmark Aalborg have been at the very front of media convergence in Denmark; presently working on a convergence project with a large newspaper, Nordjyske, and on a new media project with mobile, always-on multimedia.
Editor -- Streaming:Content (Münich)
2001 Editor Streaming:Content Magazin
Landsberg (Germany) and Valencia (Spain)
Since 1997 PR Consultant and Freelance Journalist, Broadcast-Telecommunication-Internet-IT Cologne (Germany) and Valencia (Spain)
1991-1996 PR Representative Business to Business (Broadcast & Professional Products) Sony Deutschland GmbH, Köln (Germany)
1989-1991 PR Representative Consumer Business, Dr. August Oetker Nahrungsmittel KG, Bielefeld (Germany)
1981-1989 Freelance Journalist
Newspapers "Die Glocke", Oelde (Germany), "Neue Westfälische" and "Westfalen-Blatt", Bielefeld (Germany)
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1989 - Qualification as Technology Specialist for Office Communication, Degree "Kommunikations-Analytiker" Institute InBit, Nixdorf AG, Paderborn (Germany)
1985 - Social Sciences and History, Degree "Staatsexamen Sek. II" Universities of Münster, Köln and Bielefeld (Germany)
Editor-in-Chief -- ALTEV GLOBAL
2000 - present Editor-in-Chief TV Global
1999 - 2000 Editor-in-Chief TV NASA
1998 - 1999 Editor, News Department TV NASA
1995 - 1998 Director - 4 hour daily live broadcasting TV NASA,
Director and camera operator of several documentaries and commercials
1992 - 1995 Camera operator, editor and director for news, documentaries, MAC TV
Production manager of the series "100 plus", MAC TV production company
1991 - 1992 Assistent director, Czech television Prague - department of alternative programmes
Castillo, Wednesday June 20, 16:00
Director of the Signal Processing Laboratory -- EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne)
Murat Kunt was born in Ankara, Turkey, on January 16, 1945. He received his M.S. in Physics and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1969 and 1974 respectively.
From 1974 to 1976, he was a visiting scientist at the Research Laboratory of Electronics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he developed compression techniques for X-ray images and electronic image files. In 1976, he returned to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) where, presently, he is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Signal Processing Laboratory, one of the largest laboratories at EPFL. He conducts teaching and research in digital signal and image processing with applications to modeling, coding, pattern recognition, scene analysis, industrial developments and biomedical engineering. His Laboratory participates in a large number of European projects under various Programmes such as Esprit, Eureka, Race, HCM, Commett and Cost.
He is the author or the co-author of more than two hundred research papers and fourteen books and holds three patents. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Signal Processing Journal and a founding member of EURASIP, the European Association for Signal Processing. He serves as a chairman and/or a member of the Scientific Committees of several international conferences and in the editorial boards of the Proceedings of the IEEE, Pattern Recognition Letters and Traitement du Signal. He was the co-chairman of the first European Signal Processing Conference which was held in Lausanne in 1980 and the general chairman of the International Image Processing Conference (ICIP'96) held in Lausanne in 1996. He was the President of the Swiss Association for Pattern Recognition from its creation till 1997. He consults for governmental offices including the French General Assembly. He received the gold medal of EURASIP for meritorious services and the IEEE ASSP technical achievement award in 1983 and 1997 respectively.
President -- HLConsulting
Hubert Lalande has worked in the communication, Television and Internet Industry in Canada for more than 10 years.
As recently as 2000, he was Head of the New Media Department of TFO-TVOntario, an educational content producer, broadcaster and netcaster.
Hubert Lalande is currently President of HLConsulting, a company specialising in business and strategic development for the public and private sector (e.learning, e.training, edutainment and specialty WebTV networks).
Castillo, Wednesday June 20, 14:30
President of the Management Board -- Audiovisual EUREKA (Brussels)
At present acts as representative of Belgium-the Flemish Community within the National Coordinators' Committee and as President of the Management Board of AV-Eureka.
Upon his return from AMSTERDAM (1991), where he directed the FLEMISH CULTURAL CENTRE "De Brakke Grond" for almost 10 years, Mr LEROUGE was appointed Inspector-General of the new Media Directorate and ad interim Director-General for Permanent Training and Education at the Ministry of the Flemish Community.
Especially devoted to developing international relations, Walter LEROUGE was appointed representative to the intergovernmental multilateral authorities for the audiovisual, media and mass communications by the Flemish Government.
At the level of the EUROPEAN UNION, Walter LEROUGE has been a member of the Media Committee and the Group of Experts on Culture-Audio for the Council of Ministers for over 10 years.
He is also a member of the Management Committee of the pan-European co-production fund EURIMAGES at the COUNCIL OF EUROPE and of the Executive Council of the EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY, both in Strasbourg.
As a national coordinator and president of the Management Board of AUDIOVISUAL EUREKA, he was one of the founding fathers of the organization he will be leading.
Last but not least, he coordinates the professional jury which annually selects the Belgian competitor for the AWARD FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM.
With Stijn CONINX' "DAENS" in 1991 and, recently this year, Dominique DERUDDERE's "IEDEREEN BEROEMD", Flemish cinema added two important Oscar nominations to its record.
Rivage, Thursday June 21, 09:30
Rivage, Saturday June 23, 09:30
Manager -- Canal Blau Informació (Vilanova La Geltrů)
University degree in Information Sciences at Autonoms Barcelona University (1985)
- Director of the Department of Means of Communication of the Town Hall of Vilanova i la Geltrú since 1986.
- Director of Canal Blau Television since its creation in Decembre 1990
- Director of Canal Blau Rŕdio since April 1995
- Director of municipal magazines since 1986.
- Has cooperated and worked in different state means of comunication.
- Presently he is the Director of the Information Society of Vilanova i la Geltrú.
- Vice-President of the Catalan Local Television Corporation
- Lecturer of Audiovisual Communication at the Autonoms Barcelona University (UAB)
Rivage, Friday June 22, 11:00
Manager, CEO -- TeleTicino (Melide)
Born in Bellinzona, studied law at the University of Fribourg, worked in Brussels from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary General of the EYCD-European Young Christian Democrats.
In 1999, elected to the Swiss Parliament as one of the two Representatives of Cantone Ticino in the "Council of States" (the Swiss Senate) for the Christian Democratic Party.
As journalist, he became Chief Editor of the daily paper "Giornale del Popolo" in Lugano (1987-95).
In 1996 he founded the private TV channel "TeleTicino", where he still acts as CEO.
Speaker of Telesuisse, the Association of all swiss private TV.
Manager -- Bougainville Sounds & Pictures
Claude Mangold obtained a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, the worked for UBS in Zurich.
As a management consultant, he worked on corporate strategy for several industrial and media groups, such as Kudelski and Radio Nostalgie and participated as an investor in several LBOs and corporate mergers.
Presently manager of Bougainville Sounds & Pictures, a producer of acclaimed TV and Web-TV programming (mainly music) broadcast in Switzerland and in other European countries.
Rivage, Thursday June 21, 11:00
Coordinator -- CIRCUIT! / Clot RTV-Sant Martí (Barcelona)
Journalist master in "Education and Communication" and holds a degree from the Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona (UAB).
Presently coordinator of Clot RTV-Sant Martí, one of the members of the European Audiovisual Association CIRCUIT!, where she is the technical secretary. In addition to the coordination of Clot RTV-Sant Martí, she develops projects in the European and Mediterranian field.
She combines this work with others as audiovisual producer and youth initiatives director.
Castillo, Thursday June 21, 14:30
Expert Telecom Consultant -- Belgacom (Brussels)
Frank Meert graduated from the NARAFI (Nationaal Radio en Film Instituut) and obtained a Bachelor degree in Financial Sciences from the EHSAL (Economische Hogeschool St. Aloysius). Active for years in the TV and cable industry, he became a product specialist in the technologies related to broadband communications, broadcasting and pay TV.
He joined Belgacom in1998 as a consultant and has since then been involved in project development.
Rivage, Friday June 22, 09:30
Editor in Chief -- SwisswatchTV (Lausanne)
Studied in Switzerland and in the United States.
After obtaining his law degree, he worked for two years in the appeals court before turning to journalism.
For the next ten years, he travelled the world over, covering news stories for the newspaper 24 Heures.
His active and continuing involvement in video, which he discovered in 1971, led him to create his own company, NVP Nicolet Video Productions.
When the Lausanne regional television channel, TVRL, was created in 1994, Philippe Nicolet established and directed the news department.
He produced a science fiction series, and wrote and directed a full-length movie in 2000.
The same year, he co-founded SwissWatch TV with the Swiss Watch Journal.
He is currently preparing the launch of "Dreamer", a series of travel programmes.
Rivage, Saturday June 23, 11:00
Journalist (research) -- University of Santiago de Compostela
Employed by the University of Santiago de Compostela, in the department of research in communication of the Consello da Cultura Galega.
Member of the STEAD project, he supervises the technical questions for the web.
Rivage, Thursday June 21, 16:00
Manager -- TELE K (Madrid)
Since 1993, Director of Tele K and President of the Association of Local Televisions of the Community of Madrid.
Author of different research studies and reports on local television in Spain.
Presently, collaborates as professor of the Master of Educational Television of the Ability of Sciences of the Information of the UCM.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Audiovisual European Association "CIRCUIT".
Rivage, Saturday June 23, 09:30
Managing Director -- Aalborg TVR group (Aalborg)
Educated and worked as a journalist, advancing to editor; then chose to establish his own communicatrion company. Managing Director of the multimedia broadcast company, the Aalborg TVR group, since 1987. This inlcudes broadcast television, radio, multimedia production, sound production and television and video production, as well as internetmedia.
Peter has been extremely active in political work for local TV in Denmark.
Rivage, Thursday June 21, 09:30
Director -- RTC TV Ličge (Ličge)
Jean-Louis Radoux
Director and Editor-in-Chief of RCT TV, (Ličge)
since 1987.
Jurist, Journalist.
Deputy Director -- OFCOM, Federal Office of Communications
Head of the International Relations service, whose mission is to defend the interests of Switzerland in international organisation and at international conferences dealing with media, telecommunications and new technologies.
In order to co-ordinate Switzerland's official position, Mr. Riehl and his service work in close co-operation with the other ministries of the Swiss Federal government and with the private sector.
Castillo, Thursday June 21, 09:30
Coordinator -- ANEM TV Network (Belgrade)
Studied at the Faculty of Political science in Belgrade, worked as a journalist in national daily news, magazines and regional TV.
From 1997, was editor in chief at SOKO TV, independent station in eastern Serbia, member of ANEM.
In March 1999, at the begining of the NATO air strikes, the Federal Ministry of Telecomunications closed down the station, as it was re-transmitting parts of SKY, CNN, BBC, DW and other news programmes of an independent nature by satellite.
He stuck ANEM posters with critical message about press freedom on the windows of the station, and was arrested by the Secret Police on April 12, 1999.
Accused of spreading "false news", spent 339 days in prison.
Now, coordinator of ANEM TV Network.
Rivage, Friday June 22, 16:00
Associate Editor -- Broadcast & Production (Milano)
Journalist since 1981
Director of Radio dei Navigli (Milan) 1982/1993
Journalist at Telemilano2 (1983/1984)
Editor of Millecanali Magazine (1989/1998)
Mktg Manager of Radio Peter Flowers (1992/1993)
Mktg Manager of NovaradioA (1994/1996)
Mktg Manager of Primavera Magazine (1996/1997)
Associate Editor of Broadcast & Production since 1999
Castillo, Friday June 22, 09:30
Technical Adviser -- TV Pirot (Pirot)
Expert in the development and delivery of cost-effective and high-performance media information systems solutions. Application software design and delivery.
Manager -- Canal 3 (Bienne)
Frederik Stucki has worked with more than 30 independent radio and TV stations in Switzerland and Germany, starting as a show host and news speaker, later on as a programme adviser and consultant in training and copyright issues.
Today, he successfully runs the bilingual radio Canal 3 in Biel-Bienne (CH) and hosts a weekly talk show on TeleBielingue TV.
He is a member of the executive committee of the Swiss Private Radio Association VSP, the Swiss delegate for the European Radio Association AER in Brussels, and Vice-President of the "Prix Walo"-Academy (Swiss Showbusiness Awards).
Castillo, Thursday June 21, 09:30
Manager-Director -- Gavŕ Televisió (Gavŕ)
-Secretary of Televisions Locals de Catalunya (Local TV Association that has more than 30 local broadcasters in Catalonia)
-Director of a daily local news programme in Barcelona TV (Barcelona's local public television) (1995-96)
-Staff head at "El temps" (weekly magazine published in Valencia in Catalan language) (1993-94)
-Member of The Alcatel Project for Barcelona'92 and deputy press director in Basketball Olympic Competition (1990-92) in COOB'92 (Barcelona Olympic Organising Comeetee)
-Reporter at TVE (Spanish National Television) in Catalonia (1986-89)
Rivage, Thursday June 21, 09:30
Archivist / Project Coordinator -- Fédération Belge des TV Locales Francophones (Namur)
Holds a Degree in contemporary history (Université Libre de Bruxelles - 1994)
Currently working for the Federation of French-speaking Local Television Stations (Fédération des Télévisions locales francophones) - (Belgium).
After conducting a study on the organisation of archiving in the twelve member television stations, she is now coordinating the setting up of an archiving project, the first phase of which is aimed at harmonising the members' archiving procedures (ARCHE project).
Rivage, Thursday June 21, 14:30
Manager -- NO TELE (Tournai)
Actor, writer, director -- YT&T (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow)TM
Actor, writer, director who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (R.A.D.A.) London.
With his company YT&T (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow)TM he intends to work in documentary and fiction.
After working in theatre and TV in the UK, he was Founder-Director of "Florence Rep" English Theatre (Firenze, Italia 1978-83), while at the same time producing-writing-presenting "The News in English" and "Faces Behind the News" for Canale 48, Florence, Italy.
He is Writer/Director/Narrator of "Destination: Malta", "Cities of the World: Valletta", "World Discoveries: Calypso's Isle" and "World Discoveries: BirguFest"; he also provides the narration for the 3 series: "Cities of the World", "World Discoveries" & "Destinations".
From 1988 to 1996 he was a faculty member at Art Center College of Design (Europe).
At present he is a member of British Actors' EQUITY (UK);
Scam -Société civile des auteurs multimedia (F)
and
EDN - European Documentary Network (DK)
Rivage, Saturday June 23, 09:30
Manager -- Multimedia Education & Broadcasting Centre (Sliema)
Broadcaster/educator with the Ministry of Education & Broadcasting in Malta.
Over 30 years' experience in producing and presenting cultural and educational broadcasts for Malta's Public Broadcasting Service (which runs both public radio and television), where he also sits as Director on the Board of the Company; and for Education 22, the cable national education channel, which he heads and established for the Ministry in 1996.
Mr Xuereb regularly writes journalistic articles for the press, produces a weekly radio programme in French for overseas listeners for the Voice of the Mediterranean within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is a television consultant with Audiovision Production Ltd, the largest independent media producer on the Island.
On the international scene Mr Xuereb is the national coordinator for Malta on the EuroMed project for CapMed, an archives data bank from the Mediterranean, and represents Malta on the Centre Mediterraneen de la Communication Audiovisuelle (including Copeam), both based in Marseilles.
He frequently attends various European and international forums related to the media.