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Institute Staff
Dr David Levy
David Levy became RISJ Director in September 2008. Earlier that year he served as the sole foreign member of the French Commission established by President Sarkozy to review the future of the French public service broadcaster, France Télévisions...
John Lloyd
John Lloyd is a contributing editor to the Financial Times, to which he contributes features, analysis, book reviews and a weekly column on UK TV in the Weekend FT. For the Financial Times, he has been Labour Editor, Industrial Editor, East European Editor and Moscow Bureau Chief...
Prof. Robert G. Picard
Professor Robert G Picard is a world-leading specialist on media economics and government media policies. He was formerly based in the Media Management and Transformation Center at Jönköping International Business School in Sweden where he was Director of the Center and Hamrin Professor of Media Economics...
James Painter
James Painter joined the BBC World Service in 1992, and has worked in various capacities there including as head of the Spanish American Service, head of the BBC Miami office, and editor in the newsroom. He has published, or contributed to, several books and articles, and is the author of the RISJ CHALLENGE Counter-Hegemonic News: A case study of Al-Jazeera English and Telesur.
Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Rasmus is a post doctoral research fellow doing cross-national comparative research on the business of journalism and its role in democracy. He holds a BA and a MA in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen...
Sara Kalim
After completing a BA (Hons) degree in Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, Sara went on to spend 14 years working in television documentaries and current affairs programming. She has developed and produced prime-time programmes for all the major UK broadcasters and international channels including HBO, Discovery Channel , WGBH and NHK...
Kate Hanneford-Smith
Kate has a BA (Hons) in Italian and German from the University of Leeds. After graduation she spent 5 years in Udine in northeast Italy where she worked as a teacher and translator before co-founding and managing a language agency...
Alex Reid
Alex has a BA (Hons) in Religion and Literature from Bristol University and a post-graduate Diploma in Museum and Gallery Studies from St Andrews University...
Rebecca Edwards
Rebecca has a BSc (hons) in Sociology from the University of Plymouth and an MA in Development Studies from the University of Sydney...