THE GREAT BRITAIN - CHINA CENTRE
15 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PG
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"The Media and the Citizen"
Participants in the Anglo-Chinese Conference to be held in the UK under the auspices of The Great Britain China Centre
May, 1987
MR GERARD MANSELL, Chairman of the Conference
Gerard Mansell was Deputy Director-General and Managing Director, External Broadcasting, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) until his retirement in 1981. He joined the BBC European Service in 1951 as a writer and producer of documentary programmes. He was Controller of BBC Radio 4, the national news and spoken word channel, from 1965-69, and became Director of Programmes, BBC Radio in 1970. He moved to the External Services as Managing Director in 1972. He became Deputy Director-General in 1977. Mr Mansell was born and educated in France. He served in the Second World War in the Western Desert, Italy and North West Europe. After the War he attended the Chelsea School of Art from 1946 to 1950 and is a practising artist.
Apart from writing and producing hundreds of radio documentary programmes, he has published two books, "Tragedy in Algeria" (1961), а background study of the Algerian War of Independence, and "Let the Truth be Told" (1982), a history of BBC External Broadcasting. Since retiring he has been active as a broadcasting consultant, as a member of the UK National Commission for UNESCO and has chaired a number of bodies concerned
with journalisa training. He is a member of the Executive Committee of The Great Britain · China Centre.
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SIR WALTER BODMER
Sir Walter Bodmer has been Director of Research at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund since 1979. After graduating in Mathematics, Sir Walter's early career was in the Department of Genetics at Cambridge University and at Stanford University in the USA. In 1970 he was appointed Professor of Genetics at Oxford University. Sir Walter's current research is on the applications of monoclonal antibodies and recombinant DNA techniques to problems in cancer research. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1981. Sir Walter is well known for his interest in the communication of science to the general public. He was Chairman of the Royal Society's ad hoc group on the Public Understanding of Science, is now a member of the Public Understanding of Science Committee.
In 1986 he gave the Bernal Lecture on the same topic. He is Chairman of the BBC Science Consultative Group and is President Elect (for 1987/88) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Director: Ms Penny Brooke*BA Dio Chin Deputy Director Ms Nicola Macbean BA