Sarah Curnow
Sarah has previously worked as a researcher at Accenture Consulting on thought leadership research projects and business development initiatives. She then moved to the communications consultancy Hill & Knowlton to provide a strategic knowledge management and research service. Whilst at Hill & Knowlton she was a member of a WPP working group to develop a communications evaluation approach with Millward Brown and MindShare. Since 2006 she has worked with Dow Jones as a Media Consultant, writing executive reports for Fortune 500 clients on their media profile and its potential impact. She also has provided media evaluation training to the Chartered Institute of Marketing, among other clients.

Dr. Ali Fisher
A leading international researcher in the field of cultural relations, public diplomacy and information operations. Ali has a particular research interest in online engagement and regularly advises on best practice in this field. Previously director of Counterpoint, the British Council's research think-tank (2006-7), and lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter. A regular conference speaker, he has published numerous reports on public diplomacy practice. Ali is also a faculty member of the Annenberg Oxford Summer Institute on Global Media policy.

Philip Fiske de Gouveia
As director of the Foreign Policy Centre's Public Diplomacy programme (2005-7) Philip published a number of influential policy reports including 'An African Al-Jazeera? Mass Media and the African Renaissance', 'European Infopolitik: Developing EU Public Diplomacy Strategy', 'Public Diplomacy and the Blair Effect', and 'The Future of Public Diplomacy' (Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid). Philip previously spent 5 years as a BBC World Service journalist (1998-2003) specialising in trans-national crime issues, reporting 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.