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Global Intelligence for the Digital Transition
Global Intelligence for the Digital Transition
Anne Nelson is an international media consultant who has worked with a range of major foundations and industry organizations, specializing in media transitions in developing countries. Her reports have been published by the Center for International Media Assistance, the World Association of…
Constantine Kamaras is Vice Chairman of 24 Media, Greece’s leading Digital Media Group both in terms of total users and advertising revenues. Constantine was previously Publisher & CEO of Sport.gr, one of the largest sports portals in Greece and, before that, Director for Management and…
Damian Radcliffe has been working in Media & Technology since 1995. He is currently based in Qatar where he is researching and reporting on the societal impact of ICT and emerging Internet issues in the Middle East, as well as global developments.
This follows 17 years in the UK’s…
Douglas Arellanes is a co-founder and director of innovation of Sourcefabric, a Czech nonprofit foundation devoted to providing technology support to news media organizations worldwide by building digital, open source newsrooms for some of the world’s most innovative news organisations, in…
Erkki Mervaala is Program Manager and Digital Media Specialist for Media Development Investment Fund. He works as an editor at Knowledge Bridge. He also co-founded the award-winning Finnish climate journalist collective Hyvän sään aikana. Since moving to Prague in 2017, Mervaala has worked as a…
Estefanía Colmenares Hernández is a journalist with several years of experience with major newspapers in Colombia. She graduated from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá with a Masters in Jounalism from the BCNY program, a joint program between the Universidad de Barcelona and Columbia…
Evan Tachovsky is the Impact Officer for Media Development Investment Fund. He has over seven years of media, research and data visualization experience. Prior to joining MDIF, he managed media training programs in the Middle East for IREX, completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Azerbaijan and worked…
Geir Terje Ruud is an editor and journalist with a long experience of online and offline journalism. He worked as a reporter and sub editor for several smaller Norwegian newspapers, and served as Press Officer for the Norwegian peacekeeping UN-forces in Lebanon until he joined Norway’s…
Jeremy is a journalist with more 30 years of experience in Asia, covering the region for the BBC, Thomson Reuters, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the Far East Economic Review. Since 2000 he has focused on technology. He has a regular slot on the BBC World Service. Between 2000 and 2007 he wrote…
Kevin Anderson is a digital journalist and strategist, with more than 15 years of digital journalism experience, including pioneering positions with the BBC and The Guardian. In 1998, he became the first online journalist for the BBC outside of the US, based in the BBC’s flagship Washington…
María Teresa Ronderos is director of the OSF Program on Independent Journalism, which oversees efforts to promote viable, high-quality media, particularly in countries transitioning to democracy. Ronderos came to OSF from Semana, Colombia’s leading news magazine. She was also co-founder and editor…
Mark McCormick is founder of Mirabel Technologies, a leading cloud-based software provider of publishing solutions, including The Magazine Manager, The Newspaper Manager, and Mirabel’s Digital Studio. He is former publishing entrepreneur who launched a dozen titles in the city regional,…
Orlando Alvarez is the Creative Director in Publicidad Comercial Lowe El Salvador, the biggest advertising agency in Central America, and he oversees half of the creative department with regional accounts. He has 10 years of experience working in advertising, and he has developed campaigns for…
Peter Ong is a leading newspaper consultant in the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Sydney, Australia, he has been working with newspapers around the world in this capacity since 1995. Prior to that, he worked for more than 25 years in various positions including that of a reporter, sub-editor, news…
Peter Whitehead is Director of Communications for Media Development Investment Fund. He has more than 20 years’ experience in journalism, international media support and law. A former director of the World Editors Forum and legal and press freedom adviser to the World Association of Newspapers,…
Rafat Ali is the CEO and founder of Skift, the NYC-based startup focused on global travel industry intelligence: News, info, data and analysis on airlines, hotels, tourism, cruises, startups, tech and more.
Previously, he was the founder of paidContent, which he sold to Guardian Media Group in 2008.
Ran Ju served as an intern in communications for the Media Development Investment Fund. Before joining MDIF, she had experience in journalism, management consulting and working for non-profit organizations. She has worked closely with news organizations in East Asia and in USA on broadcasting,…
Rosalía Lloret is Head of Institutional Relations at the Online Publishers Association Europe and an independent adviser to several media and digital projects in Spain. Until June 2013, Rosalía worked as Chief Digital Officer at Prisa News, the publisher of El País, and was a member of its…
Ross Settles is a media and business development consultant and investor. Previous to joining MDIF as Senior Advisor for Digital Media, Ross managed the online business and editorial operations for Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post and directed marketing and business development for Knight…
Shubha Bala has a wide range of media and technology experience. Former Impact Officer at MDIF, she has a varied academic and work background, starting with her degree in Computer Engineering, work in India and Nepal and a Master in International Affairs from Columbia University. She has also…
Syed Karim, Director of Innovation and Digital Strategies, leads MDIF’s investment process for Digital News Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MDIF that provides early stage equity financing for news-related start-ups, with a particular interest in frontier markets. He also advises…
Terence Eden has been working in the mobile internet industry for a decade. His work on mobile internet projects has been featured in museums, art galleries, and cities across the globe. He has consulted on mobile internet projects for Governments, businesses, and the non-profit sector. He blogs at…
After finishing journalism studies, he joined the Slovak daily SME in 2000, where he edited a computer supplement and was involved in improving the SME.sk online portal. With 2 million users, Sme.sk is the leader on the Slovak online news market. In 2011, he founded Piano Media, company which helps…
Tomáš Ulej is a journalist and web consultant. He led the development of the most visited Slovak daily newspaper SME for several years, currently he leads the development of the biggest online bookstore in Slovakia. He focuses primarily on the area of usability and web analytics. Sometimes he…
Ulrikke Albertsen served as an intern at Media Development Investment Fund during 2012 and 2013 while visiting Columbia University as a graduate student from Denmark, specializing in digital media, particularly the digital transition of news media businesses. She has worked as a journalist in…
Valer Kot has more than 15 years of experience in the e-publishing industry with a proven track record in developing, launching and executing a variety of news services including being director of e-publishing at one of the biggest publishing houses in Slovakia, where he developed leading news…