International Council
Past IC Members and Attendees
Argentina
Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Grupo Clarin
Australia
Kerry Stokes, Seven Network Limited
Brazil
Roberto Civita, The Abril Group
Roberto Irineu Marinho, TV Globo
Canada
Leonard Asper, CanWest Global Communications
Ivan Fecan, Bell Globemedia
Robert Rabinovitch, CBC/ Radio-Canada
Ted Rogers, Rogers Communications, Inc.
China/Hong Kong
Ruigang Li, Shanghai Media Group, China
Ma Chaojun, Beijing Radio, Film and Television Group
Daniel Mao, former SINA.com
Sir Run Run Shaw, Television Broadcasts Limited
Minister Sun Jiazheng, Ministry of Culture
Bruno Wu, Sun Media Investment Holdings Limited
Columbia
Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Bavaria, S.A.
Finland
Jaakko Rauramo, SanomaWSOY Corporation
France
Frank Dangeard, Thomson
Marc Tessier, former France Télévisions
Emmanuel Hoog, INA
Patrick Le Lay, TF1
Germany
Hubert Burda, Hubert Burda Holding GmbHandCo
Thomas Gruber, ARD
Herbert Kloiber, Tele-München-Gruppe
Fritz Pleitgen, WDR
Markus Schächter, ZDF
Greece
Minos X. Kyriakou, Antenna Television AE
India
Subhash Chandra, Essel Group of Companies
P. R. Chandrasekar, Wipro Technologies
Prannoy Roy, New Delhi Television Limited
Radhika Roy, New Delhi Television Limited
K.S. Sarma, former Prasar Bharati
Israel
Joseph "Yossi" Vardi, International Technologies
Italy
Fedele Confalonieri, Mediaset
Robert Zaccaria, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana
Japan
Hisashi Hieda, Fujisankei Communications Group
Shintaro Kubo, Nippon Television Network Corporation
Michisada Hirose, former TV Asahi Corporation
Yukio Sunahara, Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc
Korea
Kwon-Sang Park, former Korean Broadcasting System
Jaewoong Lee, Daum / Lycos
Youn-Joo Jeong, Korean Broadcasting System
Luxembourg
Gerhard Zeiler, RTL Groupe
Mexico
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, TV Azteca
The Netherlands
Brian Elliott, StrawberryFrog
Cobus Stofberg, MIH Limited
Portugal
Luis Augusto da Silva, Cinveste
Miguel Paes do Amaral, Media Capital
Miguel Horta e Costa, Portugal Telecom
Russia
Konstantin Ernst, ORT
Vladimir Goussinsky, Russia
Alexander V. Izosimov, AO VimpelCom
Boris Jordan, former NTV, Russia
Scandinavia
Markus Tellenbach, former SBS Broadcasting SA
South Africa
William Kirsh, Primedia Limited
Dali Mpofu, SABC
Spain
Luis Abril Pérez, Telefónica Media
Juan Bascones, Media Planning Group, S.A.
José Bergareche Busquet, Vocento
Juan Luis Cebrián, Grupo Prisa
Javier Díez de Polanco, Sogecable
Alfonso Rodés Vilà, Media Planning Group
Paolo Vasile, former Telecinco
Turkey
Nuri Çolakoglu, Dogan Media Group
Aydin Dogan, Dogan Media Group
Arzuhan Dogan Yalçindag, Dogan TV & Radio
Mehmet Ali Yalçindag, Dogan Media Group
United Kingdom
Charles Allen, former ITV Plc
Greg Dyke, HIT Entertainment (former BBC)
Rona Fairhead, FT Group
Clive Hollick, KKR
James Murdoch, News Corp International (former BSkyB and Star Group)
Eric Nicoli, EMI Group
John Riordan, UPC Services Ltd.
Bill Roedy, MTV Networks International
Marjorie Scardino, Pearson
Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
Cob Stenham, former Telewest Communications
Mark Thompson, BBC
Venezuela
Gustavo A. Cisneros, Cisneros Group of Companies
United States
Bradbury H. Anderson, Best Buy Co
Frank A. Bennack, Jr., The Hearst Corporation
Josh Berman, MySpace.com
Christopher H. Browne, Tweedy, Browne Company LLC
Brandon Burgess, ION Media Networks
Peter Chernin, News Corporation/Fox
Warren Christopher, Former US Secretary of State; O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Gordon Crawford, Capital Research and Management
Ronald R. Davenport, Sheridan Broadcasting Company
Susan Decker, Yahoo!
Roger Faxon, EMI Music Publishing
Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times
Michael T. Fries, Liberty Global Inc.
Mario J. Gabelli, GAMCO Investors, Inc
Victor Ganzi, The Hearst Corporation
Robert Glaser, RealNetworks, Inc.
Christie Hefner, Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
Eric Hippeau, Softbank Capital
Robert Hormats, Goldman Sachs International
Chad Hurley, YouTube
Robert Iger, The Walt Disney Company
Mel Karmazin, Sirius Satellite Radio
Henry A. Kissinger, Former US Secretary of State; Kissinger Associates
Scott Kurnit, Kurnit Inc.
Jim Lanzone, former Ask.com
Geraldine Laybourne, former Oxygen Media Inc.
Kenneth W. Lowe, The E.W. Scripps Company
Leslie Moonves, CBS Corporation
Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital
Steven Newhouse, Advance.net
Alan Patricof, Greycroft LLC
Sumner Redstone, Viacom Inc.
Eric Schmidt, Google
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems
Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon
Terry Semel, former Yahoo!
Quincy Smith, CBS Interactive
David Spreng, Crescendo Ventures
David J. Stern, National Basketball Association
Howard Stringer, Sony Corporation of America
David Sze, Greylock Partners
Blair Westlake, Microsoft Corporation
Jim Wiatt, William Morris Agency, LLC
Bob Wright, former NBC Universal
Jerry Yang, Yahoo!
Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Grupo Clarin
Australia
Kerry Stokes, Seven Network Limited
Brazil
Roberto Civita, The Abril Group
Roberto Irineu Marinho, TV Globo
Canada
Leonard Asper, CanWest Global Communications
Ivan Fecan, Bell Globemedia
Robert Rabinovitch, CBC/ Radio-Canada
Ted Rogers, Rogers Communications, Inc.
China/Hong Kong
Ruigang Li, Shanghai Media Group, China
Ma Chaojun, Beijing Radio, Film and Television Group
Daniel Mao, former SINA.com
Sir Run Run Shaw, Television Broadcasts Limited
Minister Sun Jiazheng, Ministry of Culture
Bruno Wu, Sun Media Investment Holdings Limited
Columbia
Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Bavaria, S.A.
Finland
Jaakko Rauramo, SanomaWSOY Corporation
France
Frank Dangeard, Thomson
Marc Tessier, former France Télévisions
Emmanuel Hoog, INA
Patrick Le Lay, TF1
Germany
Hubert Burda, Hubert Burda Holding GmbHandCo
Thomas Gruber, ARD
Herbert Kloiber, Tele-München-Gruppe
Fritz Pleitgen, WDR
Markus Schächter, ZDF
Greece
Minos X. Kyriakou, Antenna Television AE
India
Subhash Chandra, Essel Group of Companies
P. R. Chandrasekar, Wipro Technologies
Prannoy Roy, New Delhi Television Limited
Radhika Roy, New Delhi Television Limited
K.S. Sarma, former Prasar Bharati
Israel
Joseph "Yossi" Vardi, International Technologies
Italy
Fedele Confalonieri, Mediaset
Robert Zaccaria, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana
Japan
Hisashi Hieda, Fujisankei Communications Group
Shintaro Kubo, Nippon Television Network Corporation
Michisada Hirose, former TV Asahi Corporation
Yukio Sunahara, Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc
Korea
Kwon-Sang Park, former Korean Broadcasting System
Jaewoong Lee, Daum / Lycos
Youn-Joo Jeong, Korean Broadcasting System
Luxembourg
Gerhard Zeiler, RTL Groupe
Mexico
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, TV Azteca
The Netherlands
Brian Elliott, StrawberryFrog
Cobus Stofberg, MIH Limited
Portugal
Luis Augusto da Silva, Cinveste
Miguel Paes do Amaral, Media Capital
Miguel Horta e Costa, Portugal Telecom
Russia
Konstantin Ernst, ORT
Vladimir Goussinsky, Russia
Alexander V. Izosimov, AO VimpelCom
Boris Jordan, former NTV, Russia
Scandinavia
Markus Tellenbach, former SBS Broadcasting SA
South Africa
William Kirsh, Primedia Limited
Dali Mpofu, SABC
Spain
Luis Abril Pérez, Telefónica Media
Juan Bascones, Media Planning Group, S.A.
José Bergareche Busquet, Vocento
Juan Luis Cebrián, Grupo Prisa
Javier Díez de Polanco, Sogecable
Alfonso Rodés Vilà, Media Planning Group
Paolo Vasile, former Telecinco
Turkey
Nuri Çolakoglu, Dogan Media Group
Aydin Dogan, Dogan Media Group
Arzuhan Dogan Yalçindag, Dogan TV & Radio
Mehmet Ali Yalçindag, Dogan Media Group
United Kingdom
Charles Allen, former ITV Plc
Greg Dyke, HIT Entertainment (former BBC)
Rona Fairhead, FT Group
Clive Hollick, KKR
James Murdoch, News Corp International (former BSkyB and Star Group)
Eric Nicoli, EMI Group
John Riordan, UPC Services Ltd.
Bill Roedy, MTV Networks International
Marjorie Scardino, Pearson
Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
Cob Stenham, former Telewest Communications
Mark Thompson, BBC
Venezuela
Gustavo A. Cisneros, Cisneros Group of Companies
United States
Bradbury H. Anderson, Best Buy Co
Frank A. Bennack, Jr., The Hearst Corporation
Josh Berman, MySpace.com
Christopher H. Browne, Tweedy, Browne Company LLC
Brandon Burgess, ION Media Networks
Peter Chernin, News Corporation/Fox
Warren Christopher, Former US Secretary of State; O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Gordon Crawford, Capital Research and Management
Ronald R. Davenport, Sheridan Broadcasting Company
Susan Decker, Yahoo!
Roger Faxon, EMI Music Publishing
Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times
Michael T. Fries, Liberty Global Inc.
Mario J. Gabelli, GAMCO Investors, Inc
Victor Ganzi, The Hearst Corporation
Robert Glaser, RealNetworks, Inc.
Christie Hefner, Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
Eric Hippeau, Softbank Capital
Robert Hormats, Goldman Sachs International
Chad Hurley, YouTube
Robert Iger, The Walt Disney Company
Mel Karmazin, Sirius Satellite Radio
Henry A. Kissinger, Former US Secretary of State; Kissinger Associates
Scott Kurnit, Kurnit Inc.
Jim Lanzone, former Ask.com
Geraldine Laybourne, former Oxygen Media Inc.
Kenneth W. Lowe, The E.W. Scripps Company
Leslie Moonves, CBS Corporation
Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital
Steven Newhouse, Advance.net
Alan Patricof, Greycroft LLC
Sumner Redstone, Viacom Inc.
Eric Schmidt, Google
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems
Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon
Terry Semel, former Yahoo!
Quincy Smith, CBS Interactive
David Spreng, Crescendo Ventures
David J. Stern, National Basketball Association
Howard Stringer, Sony Corporation of America
David Sze, Greylock Partners
Blair Westlake, Microsoft Corporation
Jim Wiatt, William Morris Agency, LLC
Bob Wright, former NBC Universal
Jerry Yang, Yahoo!
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