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Uchenna Ekwo
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Editor-in-Chief and President, Center for Media and Peace Initiatives (CMPI)
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Biography
Dr. Uchenna Ekwo is a Nigerian-born author and Communication and Media Studies Scholar at the The City University of New York, CUNY. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Media and Public Policy and Chair, Editorial Board of TheSolutionsNews,com. Ekwo was the founding president of Center for Media and Peace Initiatives - a New York based media and public policy think tank and in special consultative statuse with the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council. Ekwo has been interviewed many times on local, national, and international television, radio, magazine, and newspaper organizations as a commentator on global public policy issues. He is frequently quoted in newspapers and magazines around the world and his op-eds have appeared in such major papers as The New York Times, China Global Television Network (CGTN), UN Global Connections Television, and Al Jazeera News Network. A frequent public speaker, Dr. Ekwo has delivered researched papers at international conferences across five continents including his 2012 address to the Pan African Parliament in South Africa on “Communication Strategies for Peace and Development in Africa.” Ekwo serves on the board of Consortium for International Management, Policy & Development that works to inspire and promote collaborative working relationships towards the advancement of knowledge in public administration, public management, public policy and leadership development, among practitioners and academicians in various African countries and the diaspora. Ekwo has authored five books including the latest “Leadership & Journalism - Enduring Challenges, New Practices: The Convergence, Divergence of Press, Politics, and Power in Modern Democracies" released in 2020. Dr. Ekwo is a recipient of numerous awards including Ambassador for Peace Award by the Universal Peace Federation based in the US and a nomination for the 2017 El-Hibri Peace Education Prize for his contributions towards “building inclusive and socially just communities in the United States.”
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Center for Media and Peace Initiatives (CMPI)
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