Mark Longhurst is a UK television newsreader and journalist. He currently works for Sky News, presenting the channel's evening news programmes from Friday to Sunday, having previously presented Sunrise.

During a broadcasting career spanning more than two decades, his credits include coverage of the 1991 Gulf War for TV-am, and the 1992 General Election for ITN, a stint as a co-presenter on BBC One's South Today and time with the international news channel BBC World.

Mark's documentary on Donald Campbell made in conjunction with the Campbell family was aired on the History Channel in the summer of 2011 to critical acclaim.

He is also a guest lecturer on the MA course for Broadcast Journalism at the University of Sussex.

External links[link]

• Sky News profile

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Nabila Ramdani
Nabila Ramdani on BBC Newsnight
Born	Nabila Ramdani France
Occupation	Journalist
Website
http://www.nabilaramdani.com

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Nabila Ramdani is a Paris-born freelance journalist of Algerian descent who specialises in Anglo-French issues, Islamic affairs, and the Arab World.

Education[link]

Ramdani holds an MPhil in International History from the London School of Economics (LSE),^[1] and an MPhil in British and American History and Literature from Paris 7 University.

She has an Agrégation (France's highest teaching qualification) in English and has held teaching positions at Oxford University (Jesus and Oriel Colleges), the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Paris 7 University.

Professional life[link]

Ramdani began her career in journalism covering the 2007 French presidential elections for a number of UK newspapers, and working as a commentator for BBC TV and radio. She writes regular columns for The Guardian,^[2] London Evening Standard,^[3] and the New Statesman.^[4]

She also produces features and news stories for a wide range of other British publications, including The Daily Telegraph,^[5] The Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail,^[6] Mail on Sunday, and The Sunday Times. Nabila’s work also appears in Middle Eastern newspapers including The National,^[7] Gulf News and Daily News Egypt, and she has contributed to the French publications Le Parisien, Marianne, L'Express, Le Monde, and Le Figaro. Ramdani's articles are syndicated worldwide.

Broadcast Media[link]

Nabila Ramdani is a commentator for the BBC, Al Jazeera, Sky, CNN, PBS, CBS, Russia Today, and other international channels. She has worked for French TV and radio stations such as France Télévisions (France 2, France 3 and France 5), Canal Plus, France Inter, Europe 1, RTL, BFM, among others. She has worked on the other side of the camera too, producing documentaries for prime time television in the UK. She is regularly employed by the BBC to comment on Libya where she voices constant criticism of the NTC and NATO. She criticised the killing of Gaddafi, though the same day's news reports on the BBC also declared; "He was a brutal dictator. He lived by the sword. He died by the sword. So there is no sympathy on the streets of Tripoli." ^[8]

Other work[link]

Ramdani is a Fellow on the UN Alliance of Civilisations Programme ^[9] and is a regular speaker at Wilton Park, the Doha Debates,^[10][11] and the Qatar Foundation.

She has worked with the League of Arab States, Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), German Marshall Fund (GMF), Open Society Institute (OSI), CEDAR Network,^[12] Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD),^[13] Franco-British Council, the Search for Common Ground think tank, and Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI).^[14] She is a consultant to the British Council, advising on projects like ‘Our Shared Europe’.

Awards[link]

Ramdani is a winner of the inaugural European Muslim Woman of Influence (EMWI) Award 2010.^[15] She is a nominee for the EU Journalist Award-Together Against Discrimination 2010.

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

Mark Barnes is a prolific^[1][2] attorney and advocate. Barnes is an expert on public healthcare law. He was Director of Policy for the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, and Associate Commissioner for Medical and Legal Policy for the New York City Department of Health under the mayoralty of David Dinkins. He worked on the National Health Care Reform Task Force in the Clinton Administration. His work includes focus on the fields of research compliance, the ethics of clinical trials, and medical privacy. He is President-Elect of the New York State Bar Association's Health Law Section.

Personal[link]

Barnes is a native of Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama.^[3] He is the son of Elaine Robinson and Mike Barnes, and his family has lived around Tallapoosa for generations. He is a direct descendent of Daniel Boone.^[4] Barnes plans to retire to Dadeville, where he purchased family property.^[5] He has been with his partner since 1983.

Barnes attended Bennington College. In 1984 Barnes graduated from Yale Law School with a juris doctor and in 1991 he received his L.L.M. from Columbia University School of Law.

Legal scholarship[link]

In 1988, Barnes founded the AIDS Law Clinic as an associate professor of the Columbia Law School.^[6] He is a Lecturer at the Yale Medical School, where he teaches each Fall. He has also been an Adjunct Professor at a number of law schools, including NYU Law School, Brooklyn Law School, Cardozo Law School, and New York Law School. He has taught courses in the ethics and law of human subject research, healthcare law, public health, managed care law, occupational health and safety, and law and medicine.

Barnes co-founds first ever AIDS Law Clinic[link]

The first legal clinic addressing the AIDS crisis was begun by Barnes and Professor Deborah Greenberg at Columbia Law School to allow law students to represent persons living with AIDS in anti-discrimination cases. The program was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education and received referrals from the New York City Commission on Human Rights and the State Division of Human Rights. The clinical education director at Columbia said of Barnes: "[He] is a leader in the field, and we're lucky to have him. He's highly knowledgeable, he's litigated on a precedented discrimination case, and he's sensitive to the AIDS crisis."^[7]

Law students protest Columbia's actions over Barnes, clinic[link]

The clinic was a success by all measure, praised by public health officials and by students as hands-on experience. But the school did not commit to its continuance. This became a controversy that made the newspapers for months. On April 12, 1989, 200 students protested Columbia Law School's attempts to close the "school's successful and much praised 'AIDS' legal clinic."^[8] They held a sit-in at the law school building to demand the faculty committee renew Barnes's contract for another year. "We thought one of the reasons for him not being reappointed is the lack of support for the clinic by the university," said Maya Wiley, 3L and protest organizer.^[9] Dean Barbara Black said the school supported the clinic, but declined to say why Barnes was not offered another one-year contract, due to expire June 30, 1989. Wiley retorted, "In all of our conversations with the powers-that-be at this school, it's been very clear to us that the clinic is in jeopardy and that there is a prevailing attitude among the powers-that-be opposed to the clinical approach." Another student, Matt Levine, put the students' concern more bluntly: "We do care about Mark Barnes because he has run the clinic extremely well. But the core issue is the continuation of the AIDS clinic."

On April 19, co-founder Deborah Green announced the school would keep the clinic open.^[10] On June 28, 1989, the Columbia Spectator reported that Barnes was reappointed and promoted from Clinic Advisor to the Assistant Clinical Professor of Law by the faculty.^[11] "I'm gratified that the clinic will continue for an additional semester, but the challenge for the Law School is going to be the continuation of the clinic after the fall semester," said Barnes.

Public service[link]

In 1989, Barnes began working as the AIDS policy director for the New York State Department of Health. In 1992, he was appointed associate commissioner for medical and legal policy at the New York City Department of Health. He was appointed by then-Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala to the new National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee, which examined issues of ethical conduct in human medical experimentation.^[12] Barnes participated in the first-ever White House Conference on HIV and AIDS on December 6, 1995. He has been a consultant for the National Commission on AIDS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Red Cross, and the National Minority Task Force on AIDS.

Criticism[link]

Upon selection as executive director of AIDS Action Council, Barnes's tenure with the New York department of health came under criticism by Bryan Wallace. An activist with ACT UP/Washington was quoted as saying his selection was a "commitment to mediocrity" by the AIDS community, which should have chosen a director living with AIDS. Barnes was not.^[13]

Quotes[link]

Barnes ancestor Daniel Boone

• "Simple block-granting without tough federal oversight and high standards, of Medicaid or anything else, does not serve the common good. In AIDS, and in all areas of disease control, the costs of block-granting without accountability are measured in lives needlessly shortened and lost."^[14]
• "Being prolific allows you to give up credit from time to time."^[15]
• "With the President's signature to the 1996 Department of Defense Authorization bill, the single most regressive AIDS measure yet passed by Congress became law, leaving in its wake a bone-crushing devastation of life and career for 1049 activity duty service members..."^[16]
• "Once the administration failed [to veto the Defense Authorization bill], it is easier to see why the president--who is rumored to be furious at his own staff for this ineptitude--felt compelled to sign it. After all, his own staff had negotiated its final form."^[17]
• "The federal government has a compelling humanitarian and financial interest in ensuing [sic] that all poor people with life-threatening diseases have access to quality medical care -- an interest that 50 individual states cannot be relied upon to understand and act on."^[18]

Recognition[link]

• The Best Lawyers in America (2003-2006)
• Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2004-2006)
• New York Super Lawyers (2006)

References[link]