Gordon Adam

Gordon Adam is Dir­ector and co-founder of iMedia and is Man­aging Dir­ector of Media Sup­port Solu­tions. He has man­aged media devel­op­ment ini­ti­at­ives in mul­tiple coun­tries in Asia and Africa, as well as pro­jects using media and inter­per­sonal com­mu­nic­a­tions in sup­port of health, devel­op­ment and demo­cracy aims. Gordon has provided capacity-building and super­vi­sion to the estab­lish­ment of local media organ­isa­tions in Bot­swana, Afgh­anistan, Guyana and Zambia. He writes and lec­tures widely on media and com­mu­nic­a­tions for devel­op­ment and demo­cracy, and is a leading pro­ponent of audience-focused com­mu­nic­a­tion for peace-building and con­flict res­ol­u­tion. Gordon’s back­ground is in journ­alism: he worked for the BBC World Ser­vice for almost 20 years until 1996, including eight years as head of the BBC Pashto Ser­vice. During this time he cre­ated a three times weekly edu­ca­tional radio soap opera for Afgh­anistan, pro­duced in Pakistan, which marked its 15th anniversary on air in April 2009. gordon@imediaassociates.org