Journalism & Environment: Environment issues in the Media focus

This panel will focus on the role of the Media, both printed and electronic, as a factor shaping the greater energy/environmental debate and motivating public opinion. It will be organized under the supervision of the Global Forum for Media Development drawing upon an international pool of media experts and commentators.

• Moderator: Nikos Megrelis, Journalist

• Prof. Nicholas Konsolas, Hon. President, Regional Development Institute, Panteion University

• Felix Von Geyer, Sustainable development/ CSR Journalist & Communications specialist

• Mark Harvey, Director of Development, Internews Europe

• Herve Kempf, Journalist Le MONDE

• Gustavo Faleiros, Writer for O Eco magazine

• Louis Arul, Journalist, a Knight International Journalism Fellow bases at the Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, Former News Editor of the New York Daily News

•  Moderator: Ioannis Michail, President of Elliniki Etairia

•  Yannis Palaiokrassas, Former Minister of Finance and European Commissioner

•  Niki Gaitani, MSc Environmental Physict, Research scientist in the Group of Building Environmental Studies, University of Athens

•  Christos Floros, Architect, University of Patras