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John
Naughton (Director) is an academic and a journalist.
He is a Professor in the Systems
Group at the Open University,
a graduate supervisor for the Cambridge
Centre for International Studies and writes a weekly column for
the Observer. A
Brief History of the Future, his book on the history and
significance of the Internet, has been translated into several languages,
including Chinese. He is also a director of Ndiyo
and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. |
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Richard
Synge (Assistant Director) is a freelance journalist,
editor and writer, specialising in the politics and economics of Africa.
He is Senior Editor of The
Africa Report, an English-language publication of Jeune Afrique
in Paris, and has contributed to a wide variety of Africa-focused
publications, writing extensively on peacekeeping issues, on regional
cooperation in Africa and on reform in Nigeria. |
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Hilary
Pennington (Programme Administrator) was born in London
and has worked in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and England in Translating,
Secretarial and Executive PA posts. She is a fluent German speaker
and has been a Cambridge Blue Badge Tourist Guide since 1983. |
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Bill
Kirkman founded and directed the Programme for its
first 14 years and still plays an active role in it. He is a former
Africa and Commonwealth Correspondent of The Times and was
until recently Editor of the magazine Cambridge.He currently
writes a regular column for The
Hindu. |
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