Bu Wei is a professor at the Institute of Journalism and Communication (IJC), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and director of the Research Center for Children and Media, based at the IJC of CASS.

She is also Vice –President of China Young Pioneers Academy, member of the Standing Council of China Youth Research Association, member of the board of the China Society for Human Rights Studies, member of the board of the Women Studies Society of China, and member of the Expert Committee for Protection of Minor’s Rights, Beijing Lawyers Society.

She has worked for UNICEF as consultant on different subjects, including: communications (1999-2001), child protection (2002-2003; 2006-2008), HIV/AIDS and Children (2001; 2006-2007), Girl’s Development (2005-2006), and Children’s Participation (2005, 2006).

Bu Wei is the author or editor of ten books and over 200 papers and research reports. She mainly does research on the Communication/ICT for Development, children/youth’s use of media/ICTs and their sub-culture, feminist media studies, media literacy education, children’s participation and communication research methodology.

Since 2007 her researches has focused on bottom up communication campaigns launched by migrant workers/rural young people/women living with HIV/migrant children to improve public health and HIV/AIDS prevention/intervention, reduce violence against children and women, deliver social welfare, combat trafficking in women and children, develop grassroots culture and media literacy.

Bu Wei is also an activist as consultant or volunteer in several NGOs such as The Beijing Migrant Workers Home, the Network against Domestic Violence, and the Media Watch. In 2010, Bu, Wei joined the BGD programme, and developed her researches into a new field: young people’s participation and empowerment

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Respondent Khaled Mansour
Director of Communications, UNICEF, Egypt

Khaled Mansour holds academic degrees from Witwatersrand University in South Africa, and from Cairo and Mansoura Universities in Egypt. He has published many analytical articles and policy papers on natural disasters, on the politics of international aid and on philanthropy. He is also the author of a work of fiction and a book of memoirs from Afghanistan, issued in late 2010. Mr. Mansour’s career in communications spans some 20 years. From 1990 he worked as a reporter with Reuters and the Middle East News Agency, first in his home country, Egypt, and later in South Africa where he covered the first all-race elections, and in the United States, where he reported extensively on US politics and foreign policy.
He joined the UN World Food Programme in 1999, and subsequently led WFP communications teams in conflict zones including Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. In 2006, he was seconded to the United Nations to be its spokesman in Lebanon during the Israel-Hizbollah war. He has also served as the WFP Public Affairs Officer for North America, based at UN Headquarters in New York for two years, and headed WFP’s regional communications unit covering 14 countries in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus. In June 2010, Khaled Mansour joined UNICEF as its Director of Communications.
As UNICEF’s senior communications official, he oversees the organization’s global public outreach and communications. Prior to joining UNICEF, he was Director of Communication and Public Information for the United Nations Mission in Sudan, leading the large team responsible for media relations, management of the UN radio station, multimedia products and community outreach activities in the aftermath of Sudan’s civil conflict.

Chair Obijiofor Aginam is Director of Studies, Policy & Institutional Frameworks in the Institute for Sustainability and Peace, United Nations University headquarters, Tokyo. Before joining the United Nations in 2007, he was Professor of law at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. In 1999-2001, he was Global Health Leadership Fellow and Legal Officer at the World Health Organization headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Aginam has held numerous research fellowships including the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) of New York Fellow on Global Security and Cooperation, and Fellow of the 21st Century Trust, U.K. He has been a visiting professor of international law/global governance/human rights at the University for Peace, Costa Rica, and universities in Italy, South Africa, Japan, and Nigeria. He has been a recipient of the competitive research grant of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. He holds law degrees from Nigeria, Master of Laws from Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. He is the author of numerous academic publications including Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005); Humanizing Our Global Order: Essays in Honour of Ivan Head (University of Toronto Press, 2003). Dr. Aginam is an active member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and was appointed co-director of the 2009 ACUNS summer workshop on “Global Public-Private Partnerships”. In addition to his academic work, he has worked with numerous African civil society organisations on human rights, public health, sustainable development, and environmental advocacy.

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