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World Service announces four senior appointments
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World Service has announced the appointment of new regional heads
for Africa, Eurasia, the Americas and Asia and Pacific region.
Lucio
Mesquita has been appointed Head of the Americas region.
He has been acting head of the region since October.
Born
in Brazil, Lucio joined the Brazilian Service as a producer in 1991.
He
worked on Newshour and The World Today and became editor of the
Brazilian Service in 2000.
As
Head of the Americas, he is responsible for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service broadcasts
in North, South and Central America, as well as the Caribbean.
Jerry
Timmins, the former Head of the Americas, who for the past three
months has led the Make It Happen project at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service,
will shortly take up his new post as Head of Africa and Middle
East region.
Jerry
joined the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ in 1979 as a journalist. In 1988 he was appointed
head of a newly re-established Caribbean Service and later joined
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Television's current affairs programme Newsnight before he returned
to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service in 1992.
The
current head of Africa and Middle East region, Barry Langridge,
will become Head of the Asia and Pacific region.
He
was previously a diplomat in Africa. He has lived in India, working
in a village health project, and as Christian Aid's project officer
for Pakistan, Northern India and Bangladesh.
During
his ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ career Barry has also worked as a television current affairs
producer. He was appointed Head of Africa and Middle East region
in 1997.
Behrouz
Afagh-Tabrizi has been appointed Head of Eurasia region.
The
region encompasses Russia, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Central
Asia and the Caucasus.
Behrouz
was born and brought up in Iran and has lived in Britain since 1978.
He joined the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Persian Service in 1983 and later became editor.
In
1994 he set up the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Central Asian Service and was its head until
1999, when he was appointed news and current affairs editor for
the Eurasia region.
Last
year he spent six months in Afghanistan advising the new Afghan
government on devising a policy for the future of media in Afghanistan.
All
five Heads of Region at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service are members of the World
Service Management Board.
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