Larry Kilman Appointed Associate Director of the 国产 福利 高清 in Paris |
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Mr Kilman will work with Ruchi Anand, AGS Professor and Vice-President for Development, to focus on development and advance the school鈥檚 mission of fostering peace through education. Mr Kilman has been involved with AGS since 2011 as a regular guest speaker, and more recently as a faculty member, teaching courses on NGO management and animating the school鈥檚 NGO Blog. He will continue these activities while carrying out his new tasks. 鈥淲e are happy and honored that Larry Kilman has accepted to take on this mission,鈥� said Eileen Servidio-Delabre, the President of AGS. 鈥淗is experience, combined with his career-long dedication to defending values that converge with those of AGS, makes him the perfect leader to take the school mission鈥檚 further.鈥� Mr Kilman鈥檚 career spans over forty years in media and communications in the US, Europe, and Asia, with the common thread of defending information as a tool of democracy. He worked as a journalist with press, broadcast, and international news agencies, primarily The Associated Press (AP) and Agence France Presse (AFP), and served as a publication editor for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. He is the former Secretary-General of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), where he was mainly responsible for the organization鈥檚 advocacy and development of freedom of expression worldwide. Parallel to his new academic duties at AGS, Mr Kilman is keeping a practitioner鈥檚 hat, working with UNESCO as a specialist consultant on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity. He has authored a UNESCO report on the subject: (UNESCO, 2017). He also serves as Associate Director for Communications for the London-based , which provides advice and training to news media companies around the world. See Larry Kilman鈥檚 profile on the AGS website Working with all main types of stakeholders in global communications 鈥� media outlets, intergovernmental organizations, and NGOs 鈥� has given Mr Kilman a thorough understanding of world affairs, with privileged insight into the new challenges brought by the digital age. It has also inspired him to pass on his experience and principles through academia. 鈥滻 am delighted and honored to be associated with AGS and am looking forward to working together with the professors, students, alumni and professional staff to further its mission, which is nothing less than educating a new generation of international leaders,鈥� said Mr Kilman. |
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 Ryan MillsUnited States
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From current issues in the Middle East taught together by an Iranian historian and an Israelli journalist, to NGO management taught by the director of Human Rights Watch in France, every class was fascinating and taught by some of the most impressive people I could ever have imagined. I immediately felt at home in this small but active AGS community because, although students and professors are all from different parts of the world, everyone takes the time to understand each other's perspective. Overall, I would recommend AGS to anyone with a thirst for intellectual stimulation and a drive to not only understand the world of international relations, but engage in it..