Jeremy Toye Jeremy is the lead trainer on a series of media training workshops undertaken by Reuters Foundation for United Nations organisations at locations around the world. He was a correspondent and regional manager for Reuters in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East from 1969 until 1997. Jeremy joined Reuters Foundation as a consultant in 1998, designing part of the Foundation’s AlertNet website. He has run courses for business journalists in London and Latin America and for aid organisations in various centres. He speaks fluent Spanish and some French.
Oliver Wates Oliver Wates was a Reuters correspondent for 21 years with postings in Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Pakistan and Moscow. He was head of the Moscow bureau during the break-up of the Soviet Union. He trains in Russian, Spanish and Portuguese, as well as English. He has been a full-time trainer since 1998. Through Reuters Foundation, he has worked with: World Food Programme, European Journalism Centre, Bellagio Forum, Internews Russia as well as several UN agencies. James Thomas James Thomas has more than twenty years experience in international broadcast journalism, as a producer, reporter, news editor, and senior executive. James ran Reuters TV News operations in Asia from 1994 to 1998, and then returned to London as Reuters Marketing Director for Video News. Prior to joining Reuters, James worked as Asia Bureau Chief and Global News Operations Manager for Worldwide Television News – now APTN. James is currently London Bureau Chief of Linx Productions – an independent international TV News production and distribution company. He is Reuters lead trainer for DFID, and has also provided Reuters Foundation training for WFP and UNICEF. Additionally James does regular media training for UNODC, and has provided training in the private sector for companies such as TetraPak and Volvo Cars.
Nick Kotch Nick Kotch is a former Reuters Africa bureau chief who now works as a journalism and media trainer, a correspondent and a consultant across the continent. A Briton aged 53, he has also contributed to National Geographic, observed presidential elections in Cameroon and written the text of a photographic book on Nelson Mandela. A graduate of Oxford University, he speaks fluent French and passable Italian. Since leaving Reuters in 2004 after 27 years as a correspondent, editor and bureau chief, he has trained journalists and communicators in 20 African countries for a variety of international and African clients. Working in English or French his courses cover subjects as varied as governance, labour relations, business and sport. Clients include "Reuters Foundation, the International Labour Organisation, UNDP, the IAJ and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in South Africa".
Marian Hens Marian specialises in international politics and current affairs. For the BBC, she has worked in a number of roles including field production and reporting in Morocco, the Middle East and Europe as well as output editor of World Service News Programmes in London. She started her journalism career in print, working as feature writer for The Guardian and assistant foreign editor with the Spanish daily El Mundo. She also worked as a freelance reporter for Channel 4.
Iain Rodger Iain Rodger has over 20 years' experience of working in business and the media. He worked for Reuters for 11 years, working in both equities and capital markets before becoming group advertising manager and finally global information manager. Stephanie Sprague Stephanie Sprague is a freelance broadcaster, with frequent on-air assignments at CNN International in London. She also freelanced at BBC World Service Radio where she produced current affairs programs and live, breaking news stories, including the U.S. invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003. Before she began her freelance career in London, she was a correspondent for Reuters for more than 10 years. She started as a wire reporter in Reuters' Chicago bureau where she developed expertise in financial news and interviewed many a Federal Reserve official. In 1999, she became a T.V. correspondent and anchor with Reuters Financial Television. There, she covered G7, IMF and OPEC meetings, and anchored live, breaking news, including the events of 9/11. She routinely interviewed senior government officials and top corporate executives. Stephanie began media training nearly two years ago. She has trained senior executives at many U.S. and European firms, including CEOs of FTSE 100 companies. She's a recent addition to Reuters Foundation. A list of clients is available upon request.
In 1997, she led an East Africa based programme, exploring the potential cooperation between humanitarian agencies and media organisations in conflict areas, supported by the Reuters Foundation and the ICRC. She has also been a Reuters Fellow in Oxford.
Marian has full professional fluency in English and Spanish and a working knowledge of French and Italian.
She has worked as a trainer for the Reuters Foundation and the BBC in a variety of projects including journalism courses in Nigeria, the Balkans, Mexico and Ethiopia. She has also trained UN staff on a number of workshops undertaken by Reuters Foundation around the world, from Nepal and Bangladesh to Senegal and Panama, among other places.
He then moved into the legal world and was communications manager for international law firm SJ Berwin. From there he moved to 'magic circle' firm Allen & Overy where for six years he was the global head of public relations. He is now an independent media advisor and trainer and has worked for a variety of law firms, banks and corporates.
He holds a degree in French and Spanish from Cambridge University.