Summary:
Tudor Lomas is Director of the Jemstone Network, a media and development consultancy which he established in 1999 after four years on secondment from the BBC to an EU-funded project aimed at increasing contacts and understanding between media professionals in the Middle East and Europe. He had joined the BBC as a graduate news trainee from Oxford University and worked as a journalist, manager and broadcaster on both radio (Today and File on Four) and TV (On the Record and Westminster), as well as various jobs outside the BBC. His experience includes:

• management and project management
• journalism, broadcasting and media relations
• media strategy, consultancy and training
• fund-raising from commercial and non-commercial sources
• working with Brussels and EU institutions, the UN and the World Bank
  
• covering Parliament and the European Parliament
• lobbying and campaigning -- locally, nationally and internationally
• media and development and the development of the media
• web-sites and other icts
• presenting live and recorded programmes and reporting from abroad.

1999 --> present      Media and Development
established the Jemstone Network as both a consultancy and Dutch-registered NGO, operating mostly in the Middle East and Europe, with offices in Jordan, Holland and the UK:

• Al Jazeera - designed and ran six training workshops in early 2001 for experienced staff at the Arabic Satellite TV Channel in Qatar, including presenters, correspondents, video-editors, studio directors and broadcast journalists (reference attached);
• World Bank - consultant to the Global Knowledge Partnership in both Addis Ababa and Kuala Lumpur and to the Mediterranean Development Forum, in charge of media relations at MDF 3 in Cairo in early 2000;
• investigative journalism -- organised pioneering workshops in Jordan, Egypt and Yemen, funded by the Dutch government, and produced a practical handbook on independent and investigative journalism in both English and Arabic;
• JordanDevNet -- established the biggest development web-site in Jordan, with over 700 organisations profiled and sections for news, events, jobs and discussions as well as an innovative Volunteer Match feature funded by the UN;
• European Union -- tracing, surveying and working with hundreds of participants from our old Med Media project in search for common ground between communities in the Middle East and Europe.

1995 - 1999      International Project Director
on secondment from the BBC as director of the biggest of the European Union's Med Media training and development projects, building a network of over sixty major Middle Eastern media organisations, initially based in Holland, then responsible for moving the headquarters to Jordan and maintaining a programme of up to 15 activities a year, involving a total of over 1,000 media professionals:

• Images of Islam in the West -- the first (1995) of a series of Round Table discussions on key issues for both sides, organised and chaired by the director; other topics have included: the Role of the Journalist in Conflict, Islam and Economic Development, Global Media and Local Identity, and Saudi Media Influence;
• Syrian Arab News Agency Economic Department -- this was set up after a number of journalists from SANA attended various business, finance and economic Jemstone workshops (reference attached);
• Jemstone web-site -- the first inter-active media web-site for the Euro-Med countries, launched in autumn 1996 soon after our arrival in Jordan; our training also helped Al Shaab in Cairo to have a web-site before Al Ahram and we have run several workshops on advanced internet for the media and similar topics;
• Masterclass for political cartoonists -- including Syrians and Israelis comparing and discussing their work; one of many seminars on media skills such as: news photography, radio production, tv set design, web-publishing, forward planning, Arabic writing;
• Media management -- seminars on: the management of change, financial systems for the media, organisational re-engineering, establishing training departments, and the power of audience research; graduates of these programmes are now running media organisations in Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Syria.

1992 - 1995      Broadcasting Management, Westminster
while continuing to broadcast from Parliament, moving into media management and project managing special assignments:

• TV News Organiser/Editor -- running and shaping day-to-day coverage of political news, in charge of Westminster correspondents and liaising with TV Centre;
• Network Results Editor -- for 1994 Euro and local elections; providing a fast and accurate results service from every count for all BBC outlets;
• Performance Review -- designing and writing the first report on output from Westminster, including devising and testing a range of performance indicators;
• Technical research -- assessing the potential of ISDN lines and compression technology to provide broadcastable pictures.

1980 - 1995      National/international broadcasting
as a freelance radio and TV broadcaster, working as a reporter, presenter and producer on almost every kind of news and current affairs programme:

• Today -- for five years a reporter and relief presenter on BBC Radio 4's main domestic early morning news programme;
• 24 Hours -- alternate weeks presenting live World Service flagship daily current affairs show;
• File on Four -- reporter presenter 1981-82
• Development -- presenter for several years of World Service specialist development programme
• Foreign Correspondent -- reporting from Beirut, Eritrea, Egypt, Hungary, Albania and Group of Seven Summits in Toronto and London;
• On the Record -- reporter at Lime Grove and Television Centre;
• Westminster -- Parliamentary Correspondent, member of the Lobby and specialist in coverage of Select Committees; also reported on several general and local elections, from Brussels and the European Parliament.

1980 - 1995 Media and Communications consultancy
developed a media training and consultancy business for commercial companies; clients included Glaxo, Shell, Direct Line Insurance, Parcelforce, Ogilvy and Mather (London and Brussels), TSB, Booz.Allen & Hamilton; training senior executives on interview techniques and media strategy; also worked with development organisations and environmental groups;
produced the re-launch video for the government's Youth Training Scheme, distributed to every secondary school in England.

1971 - 1980 The early years
joined the BBC from university on their fast-track news traineeship scheme (3,000 applicants for 12 places); worked in the national radio newsroom, Radio Leicester, BBC North East, network radio reporting and Westminster; moved to Mid Wales, freelanced for Radio Stoke, BBC Wales and network radio, degree course lecturer in film-making, head of media relations for the Development Board for Rural Wales and environmental campaigner.

1961 - 1971 Education
honours degree at Oriel College, Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and an Oxford MA;
13 O levels and 4 A levels (history, geography, economics and British Constitution) at Hitchin Boys' Grammar.

1950 --> Personal details
I am a British citizen, born in Derby in the UK on 6th February 1950, married with five children.
Contacts: Heldre Cottage, Collards Lane, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 2HU
00 44 1428 641000, fax 00 44 1428 643675, tudor@jemstone.net
also in Jordan, (962 6) 585 3024, fax 585 3025
www.jemstone.net & www.jordandevnet.org
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