COMMUNITY PROFILE



Adrian Monck

Managing Director, Head of Communications

World Economic Forum

Adrian holds an MA in Modern History, Oxford University (Exeter College, 1985-1988) and an Executive MBA from the London Business School, where he graduated in 2001. He began his career at CBS News in 1988 before moving to ITN where he was Senior Producer for News at Ten; Foreign Editor at ITV News; and Managing Editor at Channel Five News. Adrian then moved to Sky News as Executive Producer. During his journalism career, he won the Royal Television Society award for news coverage of the Dunblane massacres; the Royal Television Society award for innovation at Channel Five News; overall prize in the New York Festivals; and a Gold medal for his special report on Rwandan aid. He has served as a judge for the International Emmy Awards and British Press Awards among others. He is the author of Can You Trust the Media? and co-author of Crunch Time and Crunch Time: How Everyday Life Is Killing Our Future.

Adrian was most recently Head of Journalism and Professor of Journalism at City University London. City University London is Britain’s largest graduate journalism school, educating media leaders from the United Kingdom and around the world, with nearly 600 students and over half at the postgraduate level.

Additionally, Adrian sits on the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Media. He has authored three books and maintains his own blog (http://adrianmonck.com). He is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Royal Television Society.


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