International Film Education Symposium – Alton Grizzle

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Alton Grizzle

Programme Specialist in Communication and Information, UNESCO HQ, Paris

Keynote speaker at the Bradford UNESCO City of Film International Film Education Symposium, 25 & 26 March 2019

Alton Grizzle is a happily married husband, father and Christian. He works at the UNESCO HQ in Paris as Programme Specialist in Communication and Information. He manages  UNESCO’s global actions on media and information literacy (MIL) and is a focal point on gender and media. He has written on the topic of media and information literacy and presented at various conferences and meetings around the world. Alton has diverse education and experience in the fields of education, management, information systems and media and communication. He has conceptualized and spearheaded many initiatives and projects, authored articles, and co-authored and edited books relating to MIL, gender and media, media development, communication for development. Prior to UNESCO, he was an educator/principal at secondary school and adult vocational training levels of the education systems in Jamaica for ten years. He holds a Diploma in secondary education from the Mico University College, a Bsc. in management and economics at the University of the West Indies (UWI), an Msc in Computer-based Management Information Systems from the UWI, MA in Media and Communication from the University of Leicester, UK; and a Ph.D. in Communication and Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

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