The Association for International Broadcasting is once again delighted to announce a prestigious panel of media executives drawn from all over the world to be judges for our annual factual broadcasting awards, the AIBs.
This once again highlights the uniqueness of the AIBs among international broadcasting awards in being judged by an independent panel of respected professionals with blobal experience of broadcasting and the wider media industry.
Those already confirmed as judges for the 2013 AIBs (with links to more biographical details) are:
- Faisal Abbas, Editor-in-Chief English online, Al Arabiya, UAE
- Daniel Adams, VP Business Development, ZEFR, USA
- Felix Alvarez-Garmon, SVP LATAM, IMG, UK
- Said Bacho, SVP EMEA, grass valley, USA
- Klaus Bergmann, Head of Int’l Relations, Deutsche Welle, Germany
- Dorothy Byrne, Head of News and Current Affairs, Channel 4, UK
- Naveen Chandra, Head of International Business, Times TV Network, India
- Linden Clark, Manager, Radio New Zealand International, New Zealand
- Eugen Cojocariu, Director, Radio Romania International, Romania
- Nicholas Daly, Regional Vice President, Northern Europe & South Asia, Eutelsat, UK
- Geraldine Easter, Director of Programming and Acquisitions, Nine Network, Australia
- Evandro Figueira, Director of Production and Operations, Bandsports, Brazil
- David Finch, VP Business Development, Mobiles Republic, France
- Hugo Foulds, Director of Communications EMEA, CNBC, UK
- Jeff Foulser, Chairman, Sunset + Vine, UK
- Angela Fung, Deputy Head of Phoenix Chinese Channel, Phoenix Satellite TV, Hong Kong
- Mihai Gîdea, CEO, Antena 3, Romania
- Susan Gigli, COO, InterMedia, USA
- Fredrik Graesvik, Producer, TV2, Norway
- Ibrahima Guimba-Saidou, SVP Commercial Africa, SES, South Africa
- Mohamed Ali Harrath, CEO, Islam Channel, UK
- Ryan Honter, Chief Operating Officer, Colombo Communications, Sri Lanka
- Peter Horrocks, Director, BBC Global News, UK
- Carlson Huang, Vice Manager and English Programme Host, RTI, Taiwan
- Abubakar Jijiwa, Director General, Voice of Nigeria
- Richard Kastelein, Partner, Agora Media, UK
- Oleg Kupriyanov, Deputy Chairman International Relations, Voice of Russia, Russia
- Francois Laborie, COO, Vizrt, Norway
- Ma Guoli, CEO and Managing Director, Infront Sports & Media, China
- John Maguire, Director of International Relations and Cooperation, France Medias Monde, France
- Liz McParland, Commercial Director Contribution, GlobeCast, France
- Marcus Metzner, Head Marketing & Communications, arvato Systems, Germany
- Choy Lin Mok, VP Network Programming and Promotions, Channel NewsAsia, Singapore
- Nurzhan Mukhamedzhanova, Chairman, Kazakhstan TV and Radio Corp, Kazakhstan
- Wangethi Mwangi, Senior Consultant, African Media Initiative, Kenya
- Eurishka Nadesan, Current Affairs Producer and Senior Video Editor, eNews Channel, South Africa
- Alexey Nikolov, Managing Director, RT, Russia
- John Ogden, Network Director, The Spectrum Radio Network, UK
- Lindsay Oliver, International Commerical Director, Bloomberg TV, UK
- Nigel Parsons, CEO, TVC News, Nigeria
- Nenad Pejic, Principal Regional Director, RFE/RL, Czech Republic
- Anthony Rose, Co-founder and CTO, Zeebox, UK
- Vatche Sarkisian, Director of Program Review, MBN (Alhurra/Radio Sawa), USA
- Arnaud Simon, MD Eurosport France & Director TV Content Eurosport France, France
- Simon Spanswick, CEO, AIB, UK
- Deborah Steele, Editor, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia
- Fedor Strizhkov, CEO, RTG TV, Russia
- Amir Tajik, Production Manager, Press TV, Iran
- David Treadway, Managing Director, WRN Broadcast, UK
- Jeffrey Trimble, Executive Director, Broadcasting Board of Governors, USA
- Arie Vered, Sales Director Africa, SatLink, Israel
- Robert Zaal, Director, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, The Netherlands