Freelance Writer Adjunct Professor

William Thatcher Dowell

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19148

tel: 917-***-****

email: adoyu9@r.postjobfree.com

Personal Details:

US citizen, born in New York City. Married with one son,

Current Positions:

Freelance writer; Currently working as Senior Editor Who.What.Why? (whowhatwhy.org), an internet-based general interest magazine, contributing editor for Global Geneva (global-geneva.com), a print and online magazine targeting the upmarket diplomatic and business community in Geneva, Switzerland. Contract writer for the World Economic Forum, Cologny, Switzerland and IMD (The International Management Development Institute), Lausanne, Switzerland.

Previous Employment:

The International Trade Center (Intracen.org) (2012-2015) The International Trade Center is a bridge organization linking the World Trade Organization and the United Nations, with a primary focus on developing export strategies for emerging markets in order to qualify exports for sale in the European Union and US markets. Worked in Myanmar [Burma] exporting shrimp, tilapia fish products and teak wood used in lawn furniture, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, exporting textiles, and tourist development, and India and the Horn of Africa—a joint program in which private sector corporations in India were incentivized to mentor East African producers to improve quality of their exports. Products included Coffee (Ethiopia, Kenya), Leather (Kenya), and business software. Africa is currently the world’s fastest growing market for business software).

IMD-The International Development Institute (2012-2015). IMD is a spinoff resulting from the merger of Novartis and Nestle’s senior executive management training programs and is now the leading business school in Continental Europe. It’s programs are required for promotion to senior ranks in a number of leading multinational corporations. Writing assignments consisted of translating cutting edge business strategies into terms that could be understood by general public.

World Economic Forum (2001-2015). Report writing encapsulating lessons learned from annual meetings attended by 2,500 of the world’s leading CEO’s, heads of state and cultural icons. The Forum was primarily an extended brainstorming session on the future of the world economy, global supply chain and the future of industry. In addition the annual meeting at Davos, I covered regional meetings, aimed primarily at spotting rising talent in emerging markets. Meetings were held in Tienjan, China, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Vienna, Istanbul, the Dead Sea (Amman) and the Sinai (Sharm el-Sheikh).

CARE International (2005-2008). Worldwide Media and Information Coordinator for CARE Emergency Group, CARE International Secretariat, Geneva (from October 2005 through June 2008). CARE ranks as the world’s third largest non-sectarian, non-government relief and development organization. And currently operates on a budget of roughly $800 million. The organization employs approximately 15,000 staff in nearly 70 countries. The International Secretariat coordinates operations among CARE’s 12 national members and more than 65 country offices. Also, responsible for publishing a quarterly review of emergency operations. Personal reporting on the ground covered floods, tsunamis, droughts and earthquakes in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, and the Horn of Africa.

TIME Magazine (1989-2001). Staff correspondent, based in Paris, Cairo, Hong Kong and New York. Covered the Arab world and Iran from 1989 through 1993. Southeast Asia Bureau Chief, based in Hong Kong from 1993 through 1995. Northeast USA bureau (based in New York) from 1995 through 2001. Previously worked as contract stringer for TIME in the Paris Bureau from 1975 through 1989. Extensive reporting on Africa (cover on Where Goes the Continent), the Middle East and Indian subcontinent. Major interviews included Lee Kwan Yew, Hafez al Asad, Yassir Arafat, Itzak Rabin, Sheikh Fadlallah (Hizbollah, re:hostages in Beirut, Lebanon), Kofi Annan, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman (re: World Trade Center bombing in New York), Chris Patten (when governor of Hong Kong), BP President John Brown, Gordon Wu, Benazir Bhutto, and others. Sub-Saharan reporting included Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Congo, Liberia, Cameroun, South Africa, Liberia, Senegal and Mali. Middle East reporting covered all of North Africa, including Libya, as well as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Yemen (Sanaa and Aden). Reported, produced and filmed a number of documentaries for the PBS Newshour as part of a joint arrangement with TIME.

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New York University (2001-2005). Edited The Global Beat, a website focusing on foreign policy analysis, for NYU’s Center for War, Peace and the News Media. Adjunct professor, taught graduate courses on journalism in the Middle East, and undergraduate honors course on the literature of journalism. Also conducted training programs as part of a joint NYU-US State Department project training mid-career journalists and editors in Albania, Romania and Armenia. Covered UN efforts to open the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (This assignment for Tina Brown's Talk Magazine, involved descending the river in a motorized dugout canoe from Mbandaka—formerly Coquilhatville—400 miles northeast of Kinshasa).

ABC News (1975 through 1989). Contract television reporter, field producer, and radio correspondent for ABC News, Paris Bureau. Worked as a street reporter for Peter Jennings and former White House spokesman, Pierre Salinger, the then Paris bureau chief. Covered the Iranian revolution, Solidarity in Poland, the civil war in Beirut and numerous stories in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Walked overland from Terimangel on Pakistan border to the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan, accompanying a supply caravan for Ahmed Shah Massoud. Also produced numerous translations from French into English and dozens of documentary films in Paris. Attended regular prayer sessions at Nauphle le Chateau in France with Ayatollah Khomeiny.

NBC News (1971-73), Radio correspondent in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos from 1971 through 1972. TV field producer/utility editor, NBC Washington Bureau, 1974 during last days of Watergate. Covered early stages of the war between East and West Pakistan which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh. Worked as news editor for NBC briefly at Rockefeller Center in New York in 1972, before returning to report in Vietnam. Traveled overland by bus, taxi and train from Saigon to Paris, 1973.

National Public Radio (1973-74), Associate producer, “All Things Considered,” Washington, DC. In charge of coordinating worldwide hard news coverage.

US Army (1965-69): Drafted during the buildup for Vietnam. Initially assigned to the US Air Defense School in at Fort Bliss, in El Paso, Texas, as principal platform instructor teaching logical problem solving in repairing Hughes Aircraft computer systems used in coordinating US continental air defense. Taught US, Japanese, Korean and German classes. Eventually reassigned to area studies and attached to a province advisory team in An Loc, Vietnam 15 kilometers from COSVN—The Viet Cong command center at the entry point from the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the area around Saigon(1967-69). After 18 months in Vietnam, left the US Army and returned to Vietnam to work as a journalist.

Miscellaneous:

• Translated “The Islamic Movement in North Africa” by French Arabist, Francois Burgat, for The Middle East Studies Center at the University of Texas at Austin. This became a key university text on contemporary Islamic movements. The print run sold out twice.

•co-authored In the Shadow of the Dragon (with Winter Nie), profiles of the leading private sector Chinese companies (Lenovo, Huawei, Haier, etc.) which subsequently grew into formidable multinationals.

• Served on the Awards Panel for the Overseas Press Club from 1995 through 2002.

• Worked with the (Henri Dunant) Humanitarian Dialogue Center in Aceh, Indonesia, in 2003 on conflict resolution project to negotiate ceasefire between the Jakarta government and the GAM separatist independence movement. This mainly involved leading a group of 40 Indonesian journalists to most of the major towns in the province and conducting town meetings with local notables in order to discuss the advantages of a peace settlement. The government signed the ceasefire, but soon violated it. The issue was eventually resolved by the 2005 Indian Ocean Tsunami which shattered most of Aceh province.

Education:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1961-64): Majored in History (Russian, Middle Eastern and Asian) and Comparative Languages (Russian and Asian). Also studied Russian and German language.

Current Foreign Language ability: English is mother tongue. Fluent in French.

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