MEDIA WATCH PNG

I'm a patriotic Papua New Guinean who's seen the country's development pre and post Self Government and Independence and has been in the PNG Media Industry for over 40 years, rising from a cadet broadcaster up to the Managing Director of the National Broadcasting Corporation, the State Owned Radio and Television Services, and leaving the Public Service on 13 January 2016. I've worked in public and

private sector media, from the NBC to being PNG's first television news reader on Australian businessman Kevin Perry's Niugini Television Network, a subsidiary of Newcastle Broadcasting Network, to Kalang Advertising Ltd to establish FM100 and back to the NBC and in quick succession from Director Provincial Radio, Director National Radio, Deputy Managing Director in 2011 and Managing Director from 2012 to 2016. I'm an advocate of change and as CEO of the NBC, I worked closely with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as Chairman of the Tripartite Committee for the Australian Government funded Media For Development Initiative. I also served as Board Member of the PNG Media Council, the Pacific Islands News Association and the Asian Broadcasting Union. From 2018 to 2020, I was Chairman and CEO of the New Ireland Tourism Authority at the invitation of New Ireland Governor Grand Chief Right Honorable Sir Julius Chan. I'm now a freelance communications consultant with a network of associates in the Pacific and South East Asia, Europe and the Americas. With digital technology now driving global business, I specialize in providing multi media advisory services for my clients.