Speakers

Daoud Kuttab Daoud Kuttab (Chairman)

Daoud Kuttab is a Jerusalem-born Palestinian journalist, media activist and award-winning newspaper columnist and TV producer since 1980. The former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University (’07-’08) taught a seminar on new media in the Arab world. He studied in the United States and and has worked in local Arabic newspapers and weeklies sich as (Al Fajr, Al Quds and Assinara) before moving to the audio visual field.
He established and presided over the Jerusalem Film Institute in the 90s. In 1995 he helped establish the Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN) a censorship free Arab web site. He established and has headed since 1996 the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University until January 2008 when he resigned to focus on Community Media Network an Arab Media NGO registered in Jordan and Palestine. The network includes Radio al Balad a community radio station broadcasting on 92.4 FM in Amman, Jordan, AmmanNet.net and PEN Media a media NGO that has been contracted to produce 52 new episodes of Shara’a Simsim, the Palestinian version of Sesame Street.
In 1997, and for personal reasons, he partially moved to Amman, and in 2000 established the Arab world’s first internet radio station AmmanNet.
Yosri Fouda Yosri Fouda (Vice Chairman)

Editor and presenter of Egypt's controversial "Last Word" current affairs talk show at Egypt's ONTV. The former chief investigative correspondent and executive produce for Al Jazeera's top show "Sirri Lilghayah (Top Secret), he is best known for his exclusive 48-hour encounter with the masterminds of the 9/11 attacks against New York and Washington. Fouda also investigated a wide range of issues in the course of his journalistic career, including extraordinary rendition, Israel-Hizbollah POW exchange, the smuggling of Mujahideen into Iraq, the killing of Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law, and the siege of the Church of Nativity.
Co-author of the bestseller, Masterminds of Terror, his articles have appeared in various newspapers including The Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Mail on Sunday. He has also contributed to Associated Press TV and Arab News Network. From 1994-1996, Fouda was a roving correspondent for BBC World Service Arabic.
Based in London since 1994, he played the major role in founding AlJazeera office in the British capital in 1996 where he served as bureau chief. He has won numerous awards including the pan-Arab Cairo Radio and TV Production Festival award (1998), AUC’s “Outstanding Professional Performance” award (2000), and together with Nick Fielding, has been recognized by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) for “Outstanding International Investigative Reporting” (2003). Mr. Fouda holds a Masters in TV journalism from the American University in Cairo, where he taught practical aspects of TV production. He also taught mass communication and various media courses at Cairo University from 1986 to 1992.
In 2009 he went back to Cairo to join ONTV as the key evening host. During and after the Egyptian revolution his daily show was rated first in Egypt according to Mad Talkshow.
David Kaplan

David E. Kaplan is an investigative journalist and media consultant in Washington, DC. He is a partner in Investigative Journalism Consultants and editor-at-large for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. From 2008 to 2011 Kaplan served as director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, an award-winning network of 100 reporters in 50 countries. Previously, he worked as chief investigative correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, where his stories included exposés of racketeering by North Korean diplomats, Saudi funding of terrorist organizations, and the looting of Russia. Kaplan is co-author of the book YAKUZA, widely considered the standard reference on the Japanese mafia, and author of the critically acclaimed Fires of the Dragon, on the life and murder of Chinese journalist Henry Liu. Kaplan has reported from two dozen countries, and his stories have won or shared more than 20 awards, including honors from Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Overseas Press Club. He has worked in media development for 20 years and trained more than a thousand reporters worldwide in his workshops on investigative journalism. He is author of Global Investigative Journalism: Strategies for Support and managing editor of Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster Free and Independent News Around the World, both published by the Center for International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy.
Tim Sebastian Tim Sebastian

Tim Sebastian is a television journalist and former presenter of BBC's HARDtalk for more than seven years. He is now the Chairman of the Doha Debates, a forum for free speech in Qatar broadcasted monthly on BBC world.
He won the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), Richard Dimbleby award in 1982 and Britain's prestigious Royal Television Society Interviewer of the Year award in 2001 for the second time in a row.
Sebastian's career as a journalist began at Reuters in 1974. Tim worked for the BBC for 25 years, starting as the BBC's foreign correspondent in Warsaw in 1979. He became BBC's Europe correspondent in 1982, for Moscow in 1984 (he was expelled from the USSR) and then for Washington from 1986 to 1989.
Sebastian has worked for the Mail on Sunday, and has contributed to the Sunday Times.
Sebastian is the author of eight novels and two non-fiction books. They include: Ultra (1998) War Dance (1996) Last Rights (1995) The Memory Church (1994) Saviour's Gate (1991) Spy Shadow (1990) The Spy in Question (1989) Nice Promises: Tim Sebastian in Poland (1985)
Rowan Bosworth-Davies Rowan Bosworth-Davies

Rowan Bosworth-Davies is widely recognised as a leading international freelance writer and expert in the field of providing education and consulting services in the field of financial crime, fraud prevention and anti-money laundering awareness programmes.
A legal consultant and a former Fraud Squad detective at New Scotland Yard, he ran the investigations division of one of the UK’s financial Self Regulating Organisations for two years.
He subsequently spent ten years working for two leading law firms in the City of London as a Criminal Justice Consultant. An academic with an Honorary Research Fellowship at the London School of Economics, appointed a Churchill Fellow in 1995, as well as holding Honorary Research Fellowships at Exeter University and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, he provides regular lectures to students on white-collar crime issues at UK Universities and law enforcement training centres.
A Master of Arts in Police and Criminal Justice Studies from Exeter University, he has over 30 years practical and theoretical experience of the investigation and prosecution of fraud and white-collar crime. The joint author of the leading practitioner's text book, 'Money Laundering - A Practical Guide To The New Legislation', his other related works include ‘Fraud in the City- Too Good To Be True’ (Bodley Head, 1986); 'The Regulation and Prevention of Economic Crime Internationally' (Kogan Page, 1995) and 'The Impact Of International Money Laundering Legislation’ (Financial Times Management Reports, 1997).

He is a regular contributor to 'Money Laundering Bulletin', and ‘Fraud Intelligence’ the leading professional compliance publications in the UK, has provided training and compliance programmes for the Bank of England, the U.K. National Criminal Intelligence Service, the National Police Staff College, Bramshill; as well as providing consultancy to the Money Laundering Steering Group of the British Bankers' Association, and foreign agencies.
He redesigned the entire financial crime training programme for the U.K’s National Criminal Intelligence Service, and has engaged in a wide variety of training roles for international law enforcement agencies. He has carried out formal teaching and training programmes in U.S.A., Eire, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Italy, Portugal, France, Germany, Malta, Cyprus, South Africa, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, The Philippines and Hong Kong.
Between 1989 and April 2001, he was a managing consultant with Unisys, a global IT company, More recently, as Director EMEA for SAS Institute, he has consulted in the U.K, South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, The Philippines, The UAE, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Andorra and Liechtenstein. Formerly a consultant to the Asian Development Bank on the Philippine FATF blacklist removal programme. More recently engaged in Pakistan for the Asian Development Bank. Has just completed a high-level role for the UN on sanctions oversight in Liberia.
He is now managing his own specialist writing and consulting practice, providing high level advice and guidance to financial institutions and related companies who need to engage in the areas of financial compliance and financial crime interdiction. After the success of his first book, ‘Too Good To Be True’, Rowan has continued to write and publish extensively. He has published in excess of 400 articles in the past 20 years,

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