Marek Bekerman

Current positions

Programme Leader in MA International Journalism, Lecturer in Radio and International Journalism

BIOGRAPHY

Marek Bekerman has worked for 25 years in public service broadcasting and international media development. Between 1990 and 2011, he worked as a journalist,  producer and editor for BBC News in London, and since 2004 has travelled extensively in the Former Soviet Union countries and the Middle East on media development and journalism training assignments. In 2012, he designed a comprehensive reform programme of the Georgian Public Broadcaster for the European Commission, and between 2010 and 2012, he coordinated international efforts to reform and modernise Turkmenistan’s media legislation and regulation. He was Project Director for the EC-funded media development project in Central Asia between 2007 and 2009, and journalism education expert for a BBC-led project to modernise media education in Ukraine in 2005-2007.