Category: Trainers and panelists

His bestselling book, Adrift in Caledonia: Boat-hitching for the Unenlightened, is the story of his 2500-mile journey around Scotland on other people’s boats. It was published by Little Brown and serialised on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week programme in March 2006.

Eight Men and a Duck, his critically-acclaimed first book, recounts his voyage to Easter Island by reed boat and was published by Abacus in 2003. He is currently working on a new book called Relax or Die: Adventures in the Lost Art of Letting Go, due for publication in 2011.

Born in 1970, Nick grew up near London but moved to Scotland more than 15 years ago. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and young son. His obsessions include Six Feet Under, the meaning of existence and things that float.

http://www.nickthorpe.co.uk

Causidis began her journalist career in 1988 as a reporter for Macedonian National Radio. She later became a news anchor and editor and in May 2001, joined the South Slavic department of Radio Free Europe. She worked as a correspondent during the ethnic conflict in Macedonia and became a permanent member of the Macedonian department of Radio Free Europe in September 2001. Causidis was also an editor in the Macedonian BIRN office and a producer and editor at ALSAT-M TV, the only bilingual media in Macedonia.

During her career, she became involved in promoting professional standards, human rights and press freedom issues in Macedonia. She was elected President of the Council of Honor at the Macedonian Journalists Association from 2006-2009. She is also a co-author of the Journalism Ethics Manual.

As the president of SSNM, she is involved in promoting professional standards as a precondition for press freedom.

Andjelkovic began her career as an activist as project manager atthe NGO SOS Hotline and Centre for Girls in 1998. While working at the Centrewith girls who fell victim to various forms of violence, Andjelkovic was one ofsix women who recognised the presence of human trafficking in Serbia. From theearly 2000s she devoted her career to the development of victim supportmechanisms and appropriate responses to the crime of trafficking on the statelevel.

Over the past 15 years,Andjelkovic has been a trainer at more than 200 workshops, training sessionsand seminars in Serbia and abroad, sharing her anti-trafficking expertise withprofessionals from institutions, professors, social workers, journalists, policeofficers, the UN Peace Corps, judges, prosecutors, NGO representatives andstudents. She also took part in defining the working methodology for the SOShotline for victims of trafficking, founding the Regional NGO ACTA (Anti CorruptionAnti Trafficking Action) and presenting alternative reports to UN committees (2001-date).

As the president of ASTRA, she hasled eight large-scale media campaigns and produced a manual for journalistscreated as a tool for responsible and reliable reporting on trafficking inhuman beings.

 

She is the author of numerousarticle, manuals and handbooks on the trafficking issue.

In this capacity, he is responsible for the development and implementation of NATO’s programs in support of partnership, dialogue and cooperation with all non-NATO nations. Prior to that, Dr. Bin was Head of the Mediterranean, Middle East and Global Partners Section in the same Division.

Prior to joining NATO, Dr. Bin was Deputy Director of the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Malta, where he held the Chair of International History. He was also Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Catania, Italy and lectured at a number of universities and other academic institutions. Prior to that, Dr. Bin worked for several years in the private sector including in the Middle East.

Dr. Bin holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His undergraduate education was in history at the “La Sapienza” University in Rome, Italy. He has published books and articles on – inter alia – Mediterranean and Middle East security.

She is known for Swiss Leaks, her cross-border reporting on women’s rights, lobby and war compensation, and for taking the European Parliament to court over denial to release public interest information. A Computer-Assisted Reporting trainer and member of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). https://uk.linkedin.com/in/crinaboros

2001-2004: Advisor for the Balkan Südosteuropäischer Dialog, magazine, Vienna and Kulturzentrum, Vienna

2000- 2001: Director of Balkan Südosteuropäischer Dialog, magazine, and Kulturzentrum, Vienna

2000: Vujovic founded Balkan Point – Independent SEE Research and News Service  on www.balkanpoint.org

1998-1999: Product manager in Henkel CEE in the Vienna headquarter and responsible for marketing in the new founded company Henkel Yugoslavia (as Director)

1994-1997: Querleser Wien Correspondent for South East Europe

1991- 2000: Correspondent of the Austrian daily Die Presse in Belgrade The Belgrade Federal Minister of Information decided to recall his accreditation, and Oliver Vujovic reported between 1994 – 1997 from Skopje ( Macedonia) and Szeged (Hungary), also using the pseudonym David Fatschel

1991 – Independent Consultant, Event Manager and  Business Researcher. Also independent advisor for Public Relations and Business Developments. Cooperation with companies in Austria, Germany,  Switzerland and in South East Europe

1989 – 1991: Radio B92, Belgrade

1988 – 1989: Radio Index, Belgrade

1988 – 2000: Freelancer in South East Europe for media in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Scandinavian countries and UK. He published also articles in several print media in South East Europe.

Vujovic had in this period as journalist / correspondent over 400 interviews with leading persons in South East Europe, and he published in total over 3500 different articles in print media.

He graduated economics (public relations). Today he works on his PhD.

Editor, co-editor,  author or co-author in  books, publications, research articles and magazines. He is  editor of the SEEMO Media Handbook (annual publication) and publisher of the De Scripto magazine. Some of publications were he was the editor are: Guide for Investigative Reporters, Investigative Reporting in SEE etc. 

Contact: public-department@balkanpoint.org

Link to www.seemo.org

In addition to being a journalist, he was a columnist, deputy editor in chief and chief editor for the correspondence office in Zagreb. He completed his Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb.

 

 

A graduate of Tirana University, Faculty of Philosophy. Lani was also a correspondent for the Spanish newspaper ‘El Mundo’ between 1991   1993; and for ‘Zeri’ newspaper, in Pristina, between 1993 and 1995.

Lani currently works as the Executive Director of the Albanian Media Institute and is also editor of the Alternative Information Network in Tirana, the first President of the South East Network of Media Centers and Media Institutes, which brings together 17 organisations in SEE and is a founding member of the first Human Rights Group in Albania (The Forum for Human Rights).

He has written widely on Balkan affairs for local and international newspapers and magazines such as: ‘El Mundo’  Madrid, ‘The Guardian’   London, Quimera   Barcelona, The International Spectator   Rome, Futuribili  Trieste, Fokus   Skopje, Nasha Borba   Belgrade, Vreme Belgrade, Oslobodjenie   Sarajevo, Monitor   Podgorica, War Report   London, and Transition-Prague.

Lani has worked with the Aspen Institute, Berlin, the Istituto Affari Internationali-Rome, CESPI-Rome, the Center for International and Strategic Studies- Washington, the Carter Center- Atlanta, and the Hellenic Foundation-Athens on a range of Balkans related projects and has participated in numerous conferences, seminars and post graduate qualification courses in Albania, the USA, Greece, France, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, England, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland and Turkey.

He is co author of the books ‘My Albania   Ground Zero’   New York, 1992 and ‘Masters of Humanist Philosophy’, Tirana, 2000.

http://www.institutemedia.org/