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Paul Jay (Canada), CEO and Senior Editor of TRNN, was for ten years the creator and Executive Producer of CBC Newsworld's debate program counterSpin. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and founding Chair of Hot Docs!, the Canadian International Documentary Film Festival.
Mary Cornish (Canada), is a senior partner in a leading Canadian public interest law firm and has taught as an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. She is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in the fields of human rights and labour law, pay and employment equity, social protection, judicial reform and alternative dispute resolution issues. Al Rosen (Canada) Chartered Accountant and specialist in forensic accounting. He has given expert testimony in Canada's highest court and served as a technical advisor to three Auditor Generals of Canada over 15 years. Sashi Kumar (India), Journalist, national television anchor, producer and entrepreneur. Pioneered India's first regional language satellite TV channel, Asianet (which began telecast in the Malayalam language in 1992) and the first state wide cable TV network in the south Indian state of Kerala. He is the Founder- Chairman of Media Development Foundation. Robert Lang (Canadian), is founder and president of Toronto-based Kensington Communications, a television production company with an established international reputation for documentary specials and innovative series. He is a founding member of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus, and an honorary board member for Maison Emmanuel, a community north of Montreal for young people with mental and physical disabilities. David Ostriker (Canada), was Head of Business Affairs for counterSpin, on CBC Newsworld. Ostriker served on the executive committee of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and is a past Chair of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus. Michael Ratner (USA), President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. Taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School and was President of the National Lawyers Guild. Jonathan Schell (USA), Writer and journalist, Peace and Disarmament Correspondent for The Nation magazine, a fellow at the Nation Institute, visiting lecturer at the Yale Law School, was a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine from 1967 to 1987, author of The Fate of the Earth, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Makani Themba-Nixon (USA), Executive Director of the Praxis Project, a non-profit organization helping communities use media and policy advocacy to advance health equity and justice. A published author, Makani was previously Director of the Transnational Racial Justice Initiative (TRJI) and staffer for the California State Legislature. Richard Warburton- (Canada), graduated from the Business School at the University of Western Ontario in 1987. He then went to work at Deloitte, obtaining his Chartered Accountants designation in 1990. He has been working in the film and television industry since 1993, as a partner at Kay & Warburton, providing specialized tax, accounting and consulting advice to his clients and helping them to navigate the complex government regulations in this industry. Richard has written several papers and spoken frequently about federal and provincial tax credits and corporate and personal tax as it relates to producers, cast and crew in the industry. |
