André AZOULAY
President of the Anna Lindh Foundation

The Jury convened under the Patronage of Mr. André Azoulay. André Azoulay was Counsellor of His Majesty the late King Hassan II from 1991 to 1999, and since then of His Majesty Mohammed VI. In recognition to his engagement in reinforcing mutual understanding between the West and the Arab World, Mr. Azoulay was elected unanimously, in April 2008, President of the Anna Lindh Foundation.




Amin MAALOUF (Lebanon)
Writer and Chairman of the Jury

Amin Maalouf is a famous Lebanese journalist and writer who has been working for the daily newspaper An-Nahar, and later in Jeune Afrique. He is author of many novels which have as a framework the Middle-East, Africa and the Mediterranean world. Among these, The Rock of Tanios, Samrkand, Les identities meurtrières, The Crusade through Arab eyes and Le dérèglement du monde.




Juan Luis CEBRIAN (Spain)
Chief Execuive Office of Grupo PRISA

Juan Luis Cebrián, journalist, writer and CEO of Spanish communication conglomerate PRISA, was founder and editor-in-chief of the leading Spanish daily El País from 1976 to 1988. He is also a co-founder of the monthly journal Cuadernos para el Diálogo. He was chairman of the International Press Institute from 1988 to 1996




David GARDNER (United Kingdom)
Associate Editor at the Financial Time

David Gardner is chief leader writer and associate editor at the Financial Times. His areas of expertise include the Middle East. Among his previous jobs are: Mexico and Central America correspondent 1984-89; Brussels correspondent 1990-94; Middle East editor 1995-99; and South Asia bureau chief 1999-2001. He won the David Watt prize for international journalism in 2003.




Hala HASHISH (Egypt))
Head of Egypt's TV satellite stations

Hala Hashish was the Head of Nile News TV Channel, before being promoted at the head of the Egyptian Satellite Channel. She has previously worked in the Secretariat of the Egyptian President Hosny Moubarak. She was also a Media Advisor to the Egypt State to Information Service as well as an announcer, scriptwriter and producer of several popular programmes and talk shows on Egypt Radio and Television.




Alessandra PARADISI (Italy))
Head of International Relations at RAI TV and Secretary General of COPEAM

Alessandra Paradisi began working with RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) in 1990 in the Chairman’s Office, where she was responsible for International Cooperation Agreements in audiovisual field. Alessandra joined the Department of International Relations in 1994. Alessandra is now Head of International Relations of RAI and, since 2004, she is the Secretary General of COPEAM (Permanent Conference for Euro-Mediterranean Audiovisual).




Lucian SARB (Romania)
Director of Euronews’s news and programme room

Lucian Sarb, aged 41, is head of editorial staff in Euronews. He started his journalistic career in 1994, at the Romanian Television. He has had an important role in the development of the cooperation between Euronews and TVR, which led, to the launch, in 2004, of the first daily news broadcast in the Romanian language, which is broadcast on the second channel of the public television.




Jean Réveillon (France)
Director General of the European Broadcasting Union

Prior to joining the EBU in 2004, Jean Réveillon was Deputy Director-General. He was Director of broadcasting at France 3 as of December 1999. From 1992 to 1998, Jean Réveillon was Director of sport at France 2 and France 3. From 1990 to 1992, he was Director of France 3 Nord/Pas-de-Calais/Picardie and from 1984 to 1990 Director of development at La Voix du Nord. From 1967 to 1984, Jean Réveillon worked as a sports journalist, deputy head and then head of sports services at La Voix du Nord (regional daily) and editor-in-chief of La Voix des Sports.




Rana SABBAGH (Jordan)
Executive Director of the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ)

Rana Sabbagh is a Jordanian career journalist, columnist and media trainer with 23 years of experience in print journalism throughout the Arab world. A former chief editor of the Jordan Times (1999-2001), the first Arab female journalist in the history of the Levant to hold such a post, she was correspondent for Reuters International News Agency (1987-1997) and helped establish Jordan's newest newspaper, Al-Ghad (2003-2004).




Andreu CLARET
Secretary of the Jury and Executive Director of the Anna Lindh Foundation

Andreu Claret is the Executive Director of the Anna Lindh Foundation since July 2008, and was previously the Executive Director of the IEMED (Barcelona, Spain). As a former journalist, he carried out a significant part of his professional activity in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America. He has been the director of the EFE Agency in Barcelona and a professor of political journalism at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.