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Summer school 2008 - Speakers

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Drew Sullivan

Drew Sullivan is the founder of the Journalism Development Group LLC, a media development organisation with programs in the Balkans, Middle East and former Soviet states. He founded and was director and editor of the Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo, an independent, regional investigative news organisation where he now serves as advisor. He is editor for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Program. He worked as a city hall and investigative reporter for the Tennessean newspaper in Nashville, and as a data editor for the Associated Press Special Assignment Team in New York. He has served on the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. Before becoming a journalist, he was a structural dynamicist on the Space Shuttle program for Rockwell International Space Systems. He is based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Washington, D.C.

Dmitri Vitaliev

Dmitri Vitaliev is an independent consultant working in digital security and privacy for human rights activists and journalists. He has lead and participated in missions to Northern and Eastern Africa, Europe, Central Asia and North America. He has been a participant, presenter and panel member in the United Nations Summit on Information Society and the World Social Forum in Nairobi. Dmitri has run over 30 workshops in over two dozen countries teaching human rights activists and journalists about security on their computers and the internet. He is the author of Digital Security and Privacy for Human rights Defenders.

Justin Walford

Former legal manager for The Daily Express and The Sunday Express newspapers. He works now for The News of the World and The Sun.

Robert Wardle

Robert Wardle is a Solicitor who joined the Serious Fraud Office in 1988 on its foundation. After a spell as an Assistant Solicitor in private practice he worked as a Prosecuting Solicitor in Essex and Cambridgeshire and then for the Crown Prosecution Service. At the SFO he has worked as a Case Controller and was made an Assistant Director in 1992. On 31 December 2002 the Attorney General announced his appointment as Director and he took office on 21 April 2003. He retired from the post in April 2008.

Michael Warhurst

Dr Michael Warhurst has worked as the senior campaigner for the Resource Use team at Friends of the Earth since November 2005. He focuses on EU and UK waste and resources policy. He leads the Europe Waste and Resources campaign, including working on the revision of the EU’s main waste directive. Prior to 2005, he worked on chemicals policy, with a particular focus on the EU’s new REACH chemicals regulation, for Friends of the Earth and at WWF’s European Policy Office in Brussels. During 2005 he spent 9 months working on US chemicals policy at the Lowell Centre for Sustainable Production in Massachusetts, USA.


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