Program Officer for Southeast Asia, National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
David Angeles is a Program Officer for Southeast Asia at the Washington DC-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world. His grant portfolio focuses largely on supporting...
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Research Associate, MeCoDEM
Ines Drefs is a Research Associate with the EU-funded project “Media, Conflict and Democratisation” (MeCoDEM). The project investigates the role of media in democratization conflicts in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa. Ines holds an Erasmus Mundus Master in “Journalism...
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Chair, UNESCO’s International Programme for Development of Communication (IPDC) Council
Albana Shala is the Chair of UNESCO’s International Programme for Development of Communication (IPDC) Council since 2014. She is an expert with more than 15 years of experience in the independent media development field and is Programme Coordinator at Free Press Unlimited, a Dutch...
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Executive Director, Media Impact Funders
Vince is a longtime and widely respected advocate for philanthropic efforts. Before joining Media Impact Funders as executive director, he was program director for Nonprofit Sector Support at the Surdna Foundation, a family foundation based in New York City. He also served as a consultant...
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Program Manager, Open Society Foundations
Sue Valentine is the program manager of the Opening Journalism portfolio in the Program on Independent Journalism at the Open Society Foundations. Previously, she was the Africa Program Coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists. Sue is a former journalist who worked in...
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