Fiske de Gouveia, Philip

Director of the Foreign Policy Centre's Public Diplomacy programme. As a journalist (1998-2003), Philip specialised in trans-national crime issues, reporting for the BBC World Service from the Middle East, West Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Balkans. He is a graduate of the University of Dublin (Trinity College) and the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds. He recently published a Foreign Policy Centre pamphlet entitled ‘An African Al-Jazeera? Mass Media and the African Renaissance’, and is preparing to publish a report on ‘European Infopolitik: Developing EU Public Diplomacy and Third-country Communications strategy’ in late 2005.