A S PANNEERSELVAN

Name: A S PANNEERSELVAN

Experience:

 1) Working as Executive Director for Panos South Asia since July 2004, which has seven offices across five countries in Southasia.
Panos works closely with media on five thematic areas:
Conflict, Environment, Public Health, Globalisation
and Media Pluralism.

2) Worked as Managing Editor for Sun Network between June 2001 and June 2004, based in Chennai.
As the managing editor, my primary job was to evolve and
implement an editorial policy across the network which runs
10 channels in five languages-viz-Tamil, Telugu,
Malayalam, Kannada and English. The total strength of the editorial team - which includes writers, producers and
reporters - is about 400 people. I report directly to the
Chairman and Managing Editor of the Sun Network. I also
hosted special analytical programmes. As hands-on editor,
I functioned as a fulcrum in coordinating between various
languages, departments and bureaus.

3) Worked as Chief of Bureau, for Outlook magazine since
its inception in mid 1995 till May 2001. My area included
economy, politics and neighbourhood relations. I was
heading the South Indian editorial team.

4) Worked as Special correspondent based at Chennai for
Business India for seven years. My area was corporate
economy, environment, energy and political economy.
Between August 1994 and July 1995, I was heading the
television division of the Business India group in Chennai.

5) Have written more than 200 articles for various nation and international publications.

6) Have directed a video film "Making Trouble where there is none." This documentary, produced by Frontline magazine of The Hindu group, is about the communal mobilisation using the Lord Ganesh festival in Chennai.

7) Have been covering Sri Lanka since 1984. Have travelled extensively all over the island. And my reports from Colombo, Jaffna, UP Country and Ampara were widely reproduced in Indian and International media. Have presented more than 20 major papers on the question of devolution in various national and international seminars.

Major papers:

1) As a Reuters Fellow at University of Oxford in 1998. I
wrote a comprehensive paper on Fiscal Federal Relations in
India. The extended version of the paper will be published
as a book in early 2005. During my stay as a fellow, I
delivered four lectures on Indian politics and was a part of
the special studies group at Nuffield College. University of
Oxford.

2) Presented a paper at the International Conference on the conflict in Sri Lanka titled "Peace with Justice", organised by the Australian Human Rights Foundation in June 1996, Federation in Canberra, Australia. My paper "Peace: Obstacles and Opportunities" looks at the crisis from the point of view of an Indian Tamil.

3) Was invited to give a lecture on Indian Media at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in November 1998.

4) Was invited to take part in a four day residency programme at Bellagio, Italy by the Panos Institute on the theme: "Can India and Pakistani Media Help Prevent a Nuclear Escalation in South Asia?"

5) Contributor to Economic and Political Weekly and the Little Magazine.