EPRA Staff

EPRA Chairman: Jean-François Furnémont (BE)

Director General, Conseil Supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) of the French Community of Belgium

Jean-François Furnémont was elected as EPRA Chairperson at the 33rd EPRA Meeting in Ohrid, on 27 May 2011. He has been active in the EPRA Board since 15 May 2008 as Vice-Chairman.

Jean-François Furnémont qualified in Journalism Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and in International Relations and European policy at the Université de Liège (ULG). Former freelance journalist, he is the author of several political biographies. He joined the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) of the French Speaking Community in Belgium in 2000, of which he is Director General since 2003.He is the author of numerous articles and conferences on media regulation and participates to various expertise missions financed especially by the European Commission (DG Enlargement), by the Council of Europe (DG Human rights) and by the International Organisation of la Francophonie (OIF) or by various Foundations in the field of media regulation and promotion of media pluralism, human rights, democracy and the rule of law. For a more detailed biography, see: http://www.csa.be/membres/show/3.

Further to the EPRA Statutes, the Chairperson chairs the meetings and represents the EPRA in its external relations. He/she is also responsible for the agenda and the minutes of the meetings.

EPRA Senior Vice-Chairperson: Mónica Ariño (GB)

Mónica Ariño was re-elected as EPRA Vice-Chairperson at the 33rd EPRA Meeting in Ohrid, on 27 May 2011.

Monica Ariño joined Ofcom’s international team in January 2006. She has worked as a policy advisor in the areas of European content regulation, convergence, and consumer protection. On February 2011, she was appointed Director of International Affairs at Ofcom.
Monica graduated in law at the Autónoma University (Madrid) and in 2005 obtained a PhD in law from the European University Institute (Florence). She has published widely and has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Columbia and Oxford. Prior to joining Ofcom, Monica was a lecturer at Central European University (Budapest).

Jürgen Brautmeier was re-elected as EPRA Vice-Chairperson at the 33rd EPRA Meeting in Ohrid, on 27 May 2011. A founding father of the platform,he has been holding the position of EPRA Senior Vice-Chairperson since May 2007. Further to the resignation of Dunja Mijatovic who took up new duties as Freedom of Media Representative at the OSCE, Jürgen Brautmeier acted as EPRA Chairperson ad interim from 13 May 2010 to 27 May 2011.

Jürgen Brautmeier is since 2010 Director of the Media Authority of Northrhine-Westphalia (LfM NRW) which he first joined in 1987. After majoring in History and English in Düsseldorf and Cambridge, he completed his Ph.D. in Düsseldorf about the English occupation in post WWII Northrhine-Westphalia.
From 1982 to 1987, he was scientific analyst for the CDU group in the North-Rhine Westphalian Parliament. In parallel to his career within the LfM, he has been guest lecturer at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, the Lomonossow University of Moskow and the St Petersburg University. He also participated as an independent expert on behalf of the Council of Europe to numerous missions dealing with the drafting of broadcasting laws in Central and Eastern Europe.
At the end of 2006, he was appointed Board member of the Medienrat, the regulatory authority of the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and became its Deputy Chairperson in July 2007.

EPRA Vice-Chairperson: Maja Cappello (IT)

Head of Audiovisual sports rights and sport information Office, Audiovisual and multimedia content Directorate, Autorità per le garanzie nelle Comunicazioni - AGCOM, Italy

Maja Cappello was elected EPRA Vice-Chairperson at the 33rd EPRA Meeting in Ohrid, on 27 May 2011.

Maja Cappello joined the Italian regulator AGCOM in 1998 and has participated at EPRA meetings since 2000. Italian-Norwegian mother tongue, in her daily work she has always been and still is regularly involved in audiovisual regulatory issues at European level, both contributing to international conferences and committees, as participating as national expert in European Union and Council of Europe cooperation projects. She is author of articles and speeches in the areas of audiovisual media services, media pluralism, copyright and consumer protection and holds an LLM in EU law and a PhD in European social law after graduating in Law in 1994. She is lecturer in Media law at University level (Bachelor, Master and PhD) since 2001.

Member of the Council, Agency for Electronic Media (AEM)

Damir Hajduk was elected EPRA Vice-Chairperson at the 33rd EPRA Meeting in Ohrid, on 27 May 2011.

Damir Hajduk graduated business economics at the Zagreb University and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Damir's professional experience started with the global news agency Reuters, where he was in charge of media services promotion. Damir has been involved in a venture capital funded start-up project of a national cable TV network for seven years as a commercial director, during which he also founded the Croatian national cable TV Association. Prior to his engagement at the Agency for Electronic Media on the position of Member of the Council at 2009, Damir Hajduk was working with the Croatian public service broadcaster (HRT) in the position of Deputy Manager.

EPRA SECRETARIAT

Secretary to the EPRA

Emmanuelle has been Secretary to the EPRA since 1996 and is currently working full-time from the new Secretariat's location, hosted by the European Audiovisual Observatory in Strasbourg. She has been working in parallel as a Project Manager at the European Institute for the Media (EIM) in Düsseldorf with focus on European media regulation and policies until 2002 when she started working full time for the EPRA. She studied media law at the University of Poitiers and did a post-graduate course in European Studies at the University of Aachen, Germany.
She has written several publications and articles dealing with comparative broadcasting regulation in Europe and regulatory authorities.