Ms Cait McMahon

Managing Director, Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma-Asia Pacific, Australia

Cait McMahon has been Managing Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma – Asia Pacific www.dartcentre.org since 2004. As a ‘trauma and journalism’ expert and psychologist she has worked within the media profession since 1988, and is the only Australian psychologist to be published in the area of trauma and the media profession. Cait is responsible for facilitating programmes across the AsPac region to promote ethical and thorough reporting of violence, disaster and tragedy in society.

Mr Durwood Zaelke

President, Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, USA

Durwood Zaelke is President and Founder of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development and Director of the Secretariat for the International Network for Environmental Compliance & Enforcement in Washington, DC and Geneva. His current work focuses on fast-action mitigation strategies to respond to abrupt climate change, including: reducing emissions of local air pollutants like black carbon, methane, and tropospheric ozone; mitigation of HFCs through the Montreal Protocol; and expanding biochar production.

Mr Murtaza Solangi

Director General, Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), Pakistan

Murtaza Solangi is Director General of Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation. He worked previously with Pakistan Television, BBC Radio and Television, and VOA radio, television and online in Washington, DC, USA. In June 2008, he returned to Pakistan to become Head of the national radio. He was one of the pioneer reporters who in 1991 launched The News International, an English daily. He is currently a member of the AIBD Executive Board and of the ABU Administrative Council. He is also an ABU VP.

Ms Ann Quon

Principal Director, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Philippines

Ann Quon, Principal Director of the Department of External Relations at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), has over 20 years experience in international journalism and public relations. Prior to joining ADB, she worked as news and business anchor of CNN This Morning, Asia Tonight, and BizAsia for CNN Asia in Hong Kong She held several senior editorial positions at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.

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Mr Arya Gunawan Usis

Advisor for Communication and Information, UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office, Iran

Arya Gunawan Usis is the Advisor for Communication and Information with UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office in Iran. He previously handled media development for UNESCO Jakarta for 10 years, and was involved in media development programmes covering a number of post-disaster situations, including in post-tsunami Aceh. Prior to joining UNESCO, he worked as a journalist for almost 15 years with the Jakarta-based Kompas daily newspaper, and the BBC World Service Indonesian Section based in London.

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