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Chris Haws
Washington, DC
Media Consultant
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Title/Occupation:  Broadcaster  Consultant  Director  Educator  Executive  Producer 
Services Provided:  Broadcast Network  Film Festivals/Marketers  Film Schools Training Centers  Narration/Translation 
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian/White
Citizenship: British
Languages Spoken: English, some French, German, Spanish, Russian and Mandarin.

Biography: 

An experimental Psychologist by training, Chris entered broadcasting with the BBC in London, England, where he wrote, produced and directed a wide range of award winning documentaries, principally on scientific, technological and medical topics. He subsequently became involved in the launch of the UK’s Channel 4, and in 1985, he founded a highly successful international independent production company, which produced over 400 hours of programming for major broadcasters around the world. Chris was also the founding chairman of “DOCUMENTARY” - one of the European Commission’s most acclaimed and financially successful MEDIA projects - with offices in Brussels, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. Joining Discovery Networks (Europe) in 1995, as Vice President of Commissions and Production, Chris was their first commissioning editor, responsible for approximately 250 hours of original programming a year. Subsequently, Chris was promoted to the post of Senior Vice President and Executive Producer, Discovery Networks International (DNI) and relocated to the USA. In 2001, Chris joined the World Bank Group to assist with the IFC’s Creative Industries Initiative, assessing opportunities for World Bank investment in the audio-visual and creative industries around the world.

Thereafter, he created his own media consultancy, which now serves the needs of a wide range of media organizations in the USA, the UK, the EU, Russia, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Canada and Australia. He advises Governments and Multilateral organizations on international audiovisual strategy and regulation; he provides executive leadership training to a number of multinational corporations; he teaches documentary writing and directing at educational establishments around the world and has served as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Communications faculty at American University in Washington, where he taught post-graduate courses on International Media Studies. Chris serves on the Advisory Board of the Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership and in 2008 was appointed Senior Science Advisor to Discovery’s Science Channel. In 2009 Chris was asked by John Hendricks, Founder and Chairman of Discovery, to help him develop his ground-breaking ‘Curiosity’ project, due to air in 2011.

But when schedules permit, Chris still makes time to be a film maker, most recently having produced and directed ‘Consecuencias’, a series about contemporary Latin America – shot entirely in Spanish, using local production talent, and post-produced in Bogota, Colombia – for National Geographic Channels International.

And currently, Chris is deeply involved in the emerging 3D TV community and has been asked to Executive Produce four major 3D projects in Australia, Germany, the UK and the US.