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Born January 23, 1950, in Baku (Azerbaijan). Graduated from the Azerbaijani University of Foreign Languages and the Department of journalism at the Baku Higher School of Political Sciences. 1973 to 1986: Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Youth Organization of the Azerbaijani. 1986 to 1991: Information Department Chief and Director of the Press center at the Committee of Youth Organization of the USSR. 1991 to 1995: General Director of the «Infomol» Association for Cooperation in Information. 1995 to 1998: Vice-President of the «ANKOM-TASS» International Analytic Agency. 1998 to 1999: Chief of the ITAR-TASS Department for International Cooperation. January 1999 to October 2000: Deputy Director-General of ITAR-TASS. October 2000: Appointed First Deputy Director-General of ITAR-TASS by Russian President Vladimir V.Putin. Since 1999: Executive Secretary of the World Association of the Russian Press (WARP). Since May 2000: Secretary-General of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA). Since September 2002: Vice-President of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA). Member of the Board of the «Mediasoyuz» - Russian Media Organization; Member of the Board of the Moscow Union of journalists; Member of the International Academy of Information; Professor, Doctor of Political Science; Merited Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Clive Marshall is Chief Executive of PA Group, the parent company of the Press Association, UK’s leading multimedia news agency and digital content & service provider. Since taking up the role in February 2010, Clive has led the successful transformation of the business, implementing a strategy to reduce the Group’s reliance on the traditional media sector, and consolidate its position as the preeminent supplier of multimedia content and services to customers in the UK and overseas, across media, business and government. Clive was previously Chief Executive of the Australian Associated Press (AAP). With over 30 years of experience in the international media industry, he has held senior positions at a number of news organisations, including Canada’s CNW Group, Reed Elsevier Plc and Trinity Newspapers Limited. In addition to his executive responsibilities, he is Chairman of the motoring business, Baize Group, and the current President of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA).

Daniszewski became AP’s vice president for international news in 2009 after three decades as a reporter, editor and correspondent who has been on assignment in more than 70 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. At AP, Daniszewski is a senior member of the news management team ensuring integrated work across all media formats. He is responsible for AP’s overall text news coverage worldwide outside the United States, generated by more than 500 staff in 110 bureaus. His accomplishments include reorganizing the structure of international news-gathering to replace one central news-editing hub in New York with five regional editing centers outside the U.S. for speed and closer relations between editors and news producers. He also negotiated the 2012 opening of AP’s bureau in Pyongyang, North Korea, staffed each month by Western news and photo staffers. He spearheaded a media industry initiative last year that resulted in a new set of safety standards for freelance journalists and news organizations, adopted by more than 60 organizations around the world. Prior to AP, he worked for the Los Angeles Times from 1996-2006, serving as bureau chief in Cairo, Moscow, Baghdad and London. In 2001, he covered the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and he stayed in Baghdad throughout the U.S. invasion and the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003. He was part of a team that won an Overseas Press Club award in 2006 and that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007 for coverage of Iraq’s descent into civil war. He began his journalism career as a stringer for the AP while an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the AP staff in Philadelphia in 1979 and later worked in Harrisburg and on the national and international editing desks in New York. In 1987, he was assigned overseas to Warsaw, Poland. There he covered the revival of Solidarity and the end of Communist rule. In 1989 he was shot and wounded in Timisoara, Romania, during the uprising against Nicolae Ceausescu’s communist regime. He later covered wars across the former Yugoslavia, including the siege of Sarajevo. In 1993, be became AP’s bureau chief in Johannesburg, South Africa. He led the AP’s coverage of the election of President Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid before leaving in 1996 to go to the Times. He returned to AP as international editor in 2006 and was named a managing editor the next year. Daniszewski is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. He is also a member of the North American Committee of the International Press Institute and the Board of Governors of the Overseas Press Club Foundation. He founded in 2013 the IPI/AP Foreign Editors Circle, an annual forum for U.S. international editors. Daniszewski graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. An Ohio native, he is married to Dru Menaker, chief operations officer and director of international partnerships at PEN America. They have two children.

Liu Siyang is the Vice President of Xinhua News Agency and a senior reporter. At Xinhua, he served successively as a reporter of the Domestic News Department, deputy head of the Political and Cultural News Desk under the Domestic News Department, head of the Political and Cultural News Desk, assistant director of the Domestic News Department, deputy director of the Domestic News Department, deputy head of the Editor-in-Chief’s Office, and head of the Editor-in-Chief’s Office. Over a long period of time, Liu has dedicated himself to news reporting and research on journalism and communication theories. He has written or participated in writing many news stories with far-reaching social influence, including “An Eternal Life in the Sea -- The Spreading of Deng Xiaoping's Ashes,” “Taking up the Solemn Mission of Carrying Forward the Cause and Forging into the Future -- The Election of the New Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee,” and “Chinese President Shakes Hands with AIDS Patients.” A number of his works were winners of special prizes and first prizes of the China News Award. He was born in June 1963. He holds a dual bachelor’s degree.

Sergey Mikhailov has been Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Cherkizovo Group since 2006. Mr. Mikhailov led Cherkizovo Group during its successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange in 2006, making the Group the first Russian agricultural company listed on the LSE. Since 2006, Cherkizovo has been expanding rapidly and developing its business in Russia and it is now the country’s largest vertically integrated agricultural company and meat producer. In 2001, Mr. Mikhailov was Marketing Director of Cherkizovo Meat Processing Plant. He was promoted to Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the plant in 2002 and, a year later, he became its Chief Executive Officer.In 1998, he founded the telecommunications company, aTelo, Inc., in the United States and was its CEO until 2001. In 1998, he trained as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs before moving to Morgan Stanley in 1999. He graduated from Georgetown University (Washington DC) in 2000 with a degree in Finance and Economics.

Joined Kyodo News in 1980 after graduation from Hitotsubashi University with an International Law degree. Roving Correspondent in charge of Middle East and Russian Affairs 1990-91. Tehran Bureau Chief 1991-92. New York Correspondent 1993-96. Washington Correspondent 1997-2001. Washington Bureau Chief 2005-2009. Senior Feature Writer and Editorial Writer 2010-2013. Commentator, TBS News Bird, Tokyo Broadcasting Service. Planning Committee Member, Japan National Press Club. Special fellow at Waseda University Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies. Visiting fellow at Chuou University Institute for policy and cultural studies. Fellow at Hosei University Okinawa Cultural Studies International Committee Member, National Press Club in Washington DC 2005-09. Book Publications: “Hikaku No Sentaku” (Shaping of Japan’s non-nuclear policy), Iwanami Syoten, Tokyo, 2005. “Samayoeru Nihon” (Drifting Japan), Seisansei Syuppan, Tokyo, 2008. “Amerika wa naze kawarerunoka” (Why US can change? - a book on 2008 US presidential election), Chikuma Shobou, Tokyo, 2009. "Sekaiga nihonno kotowo kangaeteiru" (The World is watching Japan - a book on interviews with world intellectuals on earthquake-tsunami-nuclear accidents on March 11), Taro Jirou sya, Tokyo 2012. "Shin Tairiku Shugi"(The New Continentalism), Ushio Syuppan, Tokyo 2013. Asia in Washington, Chuou Kouron Shinsha, Tokyo 2014 (translation).

Giuseppe Cerbone is Managing Director and General Manager of ANSA, Italy's leading News Agency and the fourth-largest in the world. After graduating in Computer Science in Italy he obtained a PhD in the same subject at Oregon State University in the United States where he subsequently taught for four years, specialising in artificial intelligence. He also worked with NASA research centers and NeXT Computer. After returning to Italy in 1992 he worked in multi-media for companies in the IRI-Stet Group before moving to the publishing sector where, among other posts, he was Managing Director and General Manager of the Il Sole 24 Ore Group. Throughout his career he has been committed to researching and spreading technological know-how linked to the knowledge economy. He has been Vice President of the Italian Institute of Technology and is at present Vice President of Punto IT.