MILOS ALCALAY

Milos Alcalay is the Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations. On 30 April he was elected Chairman of the 2001-2002 session of the Committee on Information. Mr. Alcalay was Venezuela's Ambassador to Brazil from 1997 to 2000. Prior to that, he was Vice-Minister for External Affairs between 1995 and 1996 and served previously as Ambassador to Israel from 1992 to 1995, and Romania from 1990 to 1992. His diplomatic career also includes stints in his country's Permanent Mission to the European Community and at the Venezuelan Embassy in Paris. Having published a number of articles on various human rights and diplomatic issues, Mr. Alcalay speaks several languages, including French, English, Portuguese and Italian. Born on 8 November 1945, Mr. Alcalay graduated from the Andres Bello Catholic University School of Law. He undertook post-graduate studies at the International Public Administration Institute of Paris, the International Institute of Human Rights at Strasbourg and the University of Paris.
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Hafez Al-Mirazi is the Washington Bureau Chief for Al-Jazeera Television. Previously, he was correspondent for BBC Arabic/World Service in Washington and talk show host for the Arab News Network and Arab network of America in Washington. He also held positions as writer, editor, and broadcaster for Voice of America in Washington. Mr. Al-Mirazi started his career as a radio journalist and broadcaster with Voice of the Arabs (Sawot Al-Arab) on Cairo Radio in Egypt in 1980. He holds Masters in World Politics from the Catholic University of America in Washington and a Bachelor in Political Science from Cairo University. Mr. Al-Mirazi has lived in Washington and covered US politics since 1983.
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Legal Expertise: Supreme Court, Watergate, Clinton Impeachment Trial, Cameras in the Courtroom, 2000 Presidential Election. Key Cases/Trials: OJ Simpson, William Kennedy Smith, Rodney King, Watergate, John Hinckley, John DeLorean, Daniel Ellsberg, John Connally.

Fred Graham is the chief anchor and managing editor of Court TV and hosts the daily trial coverage and analysis program Open Court. He has been with the network since it was launched in 1991. Graham's primary duty is anchoring trial coverage from New York.

Graham is a journalist, lawyer, broadcaster and anchor. He has received numerous awards for his reporting, including the George Foster Peabody Award, two American Bar Association Silver Gavel Awards, and participation in three Emmy Awards. He is the author of four books: The Self-Inflicted Wound (MacMillan 1970), concerning criminal law decisions of the Warren Court; Press Freedom Under Pressure (Twentieth Century Fund 1972) about the news media and the First Amendment; The Alias Program (Little, Brown & Co. 1976) concerning the Justice Department's witness protection program; and Happy Talk (W.W. Norton & Company 1990) about developments ñ not all happy ñ in television news.

Over the past 35 years, Graham has been a practicing attorney, government official, legal writer for The New York Times, law correspondent for CBS News; anchor, commentator and senior editor for WKRN-TV, the ABC affiliate in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee.

Graham served as law correspondent for CBS News from 1972 to 1987, covering the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Department, FBI and the legal profession. He also served as substitute anchor on the CBS News programs Face The Nation, Nightwatch, and The CBS Morning News. Graham also broadcast a weekly radio commentary, "the Law and You." Mr. Graham covered numerous trials, including the Watergate cover-up and the trials of Daniel Ellsberg, John Connally, John Hinckley, and John DeLorean. His television documentaries include "See You In Court" (CBS Reports), "Justice For All" (Public Broadcasting System), and "Ethics on Trail" (Public Broadcasting System).

Graham went to CBS News from The New York Times, where he had been the Supreme Court correspondent since 1965. Prior to that, he served as Special Assistant to Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz (October 1963-February 1965), during which time he also served as Deputy Chief Counsel of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity.

In January 1963, Graham moved to Washington, D.C. to become Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. He also served as legislative counsel for the Subcommittee's Chairman, Senator Estes Kefauver.

From 1960-1963, Graham practiced law in Nashville, Tennessee, with the firm of Trabue, Sturdivant and Harbison.

In 1959, Graham received his LLB from Vanderbilt Law School, where he served as managing editor of the Law Review and was also a member of the Order of the Coif. He then attended Oxford University on a Fulbright Scholarship and was awarded a Diploma of Law in June 1960.

Graham attended Yale University on an academic scholarship and received a B.A. in 1953. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1953 to 1956, serving duty in Korea and Japan as an Infantry and Intelligence Officer.

Fred Patterson Graham was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on October 6, 1931. He received his early education in Texarkana, Arkansas and graduated from West End High School in Nashville, Tennessee.

His articles have been published in many newspapers, magazines and law reviews, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, TV Guide, and The American Bar Association Journal.

Graham was a founding member of the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press and is a member of its steering committee. In 1980, he served as a Regent's Lecturer at Boalt Hall, the School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1992, Vanderbilt Law School named Fred Graham the school's Distinguished Alumnus of the Year.

Graham is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and Tennessee. He is married to Skila Harris, a Director of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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Maria Hinojosa is a New York-based correspondent for CNN, covering urban affairs for the network. Hinojosa has covered numerous stories and events for the network, including the Amadou Diallo case verdict and the struggle of Kosovar Albanians in the United States. In 2001, Hinojosa reported a week-long CNN/TIME magazine series The New Frontier/La Nueva Frontera, which observed the state of the U.S.-Mexican border in a post-NAFTA era. She also penned a column for TIME magazine, Living La Vida Latina, in which she addressed Mexico/U.S. border issues and her life as a Mexican-American. Hinojosa joined CNN in May 1997.

Hours after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in Manhattan, Hinojosa reported from the streets of New York City with updates on the search-and-rescue mission that included one-on-one interviews with relatives and friends of those who are missing. Hinojosa has continued to report on the families of the victims, sharing her insight in a series of reports called Up Close.

Previously, Hinojosa spent six years at National Public Radio as a New York City based general assignment correspondent. During this time she also hosted Visiones, a public-affairs talk show on WNBC-TV in New York. Hinojosa continues her affiliation with NPR, anchoring Latino USA, a weekly national program reporting on news and culture in the Latino community. In 1991 Hinojosa worked for WNYC-TV as the host of New York Hotline, a live, primetime call-in public-affairs show. In 1990 she worked for WNYC Radio as a general assignment correspondent. From 1988-1989 Hinojosa served as a producer and researcher for CBS This Morning and, in 1987, she worked for CBS radio as a producer. Among the shows she produced for CBS Radio were Where We Stand with Walter Cronkite, The Osgood File and Newsbreak.

Hinojosa has garnered several awards and honors, including the Ruben Salazar Award from the National Council of La Raza, which recognizes a journalist's outstanding body of work. In 1999, Working Mother magazine named her one of the 25 Most Influential Working Mothers in America and in 1995, Hispanic Business magazine named her one of the 100 most influential Latinos in the United States. Other awards include an Associated Press Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Radio Award, the New York Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Award, the Unity Award and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Top Story of the Year Award.

Hinojosa has written two books, the critically acclaimed memoir Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son and a book that grew from an award-winning story about gang members, Crews - Gang Members Talk with Maria Hinojosa.

Born in Mexico City, Hinojosa earned a bachelor of arts in Latin American studies, political economy and women's studies Barnard College, graduating magna cum laude.
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Judith Miller is an author and a Pulitzer-Prize winning correspondent at The New York Times who writes about national security issues, with special emphasis on the Middle East and weapons of mass destruction. She joined the paper in 1977 as a member of the Washington Bureau, where she covered the banking and securities industry, the House and Senate, national politics, and foreign affairs, particularly the Middle East and nuclear proliferation issues.

In 1983, she became the first woman to be named chief of The Times's Cairo bureau in Egypt, where she covered the Arab world. In 1986, she became the Times' correspondent in Paris, traveling throughout Europe and North Africa. In 1987 and 1988, she returned to Washington as the Washington Bureau's news editor and deputy bureau chief. In May, 1989, she became the co-coordinator of, what was then, a newly created department in New York to enhance the paper's coverage of radio, television, advertising, and publishing. In October, 1990, she was the paper's special correspondent to the Persian Gulf crisis and war, and after that, The Times's Sunday Magazine's special correspondent.

Before joining The Times, Ms. Miller was Washington bureau chief of The Progressive, a monthly and the nation's second oldest journal, was heard regularly on National Public Radio, and wrote articles for many publications.

Born in New York City, Ms. Miller grew up in Miami and Los Angeles, where she graduated from Hollywood High School. She attended Ohio State University, Bernard College and the Institute of European Studies at the University of Brussels. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College and a masters from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School in 1972. She serves as a member of the advisory committee of the Woodrow Wilson School and is active in the Council on Foreign Relations.

She has written four books and contributed chapters to three others. Her most recent book, "Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War," topped the best seller's list during the nation's first anthrax attack. In addition, she is the author of "God Has Ninety-Nine Names, Reporting from a Militant Middle East,'' published by Simon & Schuster in 1996. It explores the spread of Islamic extremism in ten Middle Eastern countries, including Israel and Iran. She is also the author of 'One, By One, By One,' a highly praised account of how people in six nations have distorted the memory of the Holocaust, also published by Simon & Schuster in 1990. A book she co-authored in 1990, 'Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf,' the first comprehensive account of the Gulf crisis and biography of the man behind it, was also a best seller, topping The New York Times Best Seller list during the Gulf war.

In 2001, she won a Pulitzer for "explanatory journalism" her work on Osama Bin Laden as part of a small team of Times reporters.

Ms. Miller has appeared as an expert on Middle Eastern and national security affairs on many national television news and public affairs shows including 'Sixty Minutes,' CNN, ABC's 'Night Line' and 'Good Morning America,' The Today Show, and The Charlie Rose Show. She lectures frequently at universities and before public affairs groups on the Middle East, Islam, national security, and terrorism.
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Senior vice president of Dow Jones & Co., Inc. and president of its magazine group and a member of its Board of Directors. Chairman of Ottaway Newspapers, Inc., Campbell Hall, New York, the community newspaper subsidiary of Dow Jones & Co., Inc.

Born in Binghamton, N.Y., March 24, 1938. Graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, 1955; Yale University, B.A., 1960. Chairman/editor, Yale Daily News, 1959-60.

Began career with Ottaway Newspapers as reporter, associate editor, Danbury, Connecticut, News-Times, 1960-62. Reporter, bureau chief, statehouse correspondent, management trainee, Times Herald-Record, Middletown, New York, 1962-63. Editor, Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 1963-65. Publisher, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Standard-Times, 1965-70. President and director, Ottaway Newspapers, upon merger with Dow Jones August 1, 1970. Chairman of the board upon retirement of James H. Ottaway, Sr., July 31, 1979.

Member, American Society of Newspaper Editors. Former American Newspapers Publishers Association representative on Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. United Press International Newspaper Advisory Board, 1974-78, vice president 1977-78. Pulitzer Prize juror, 1981 and 1982. Member, Associated Press board of directors, 1982-1991; chairman Finance Committee, 1985-1989.

Former trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. Former secretary, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Urban Coalition. Former trustee, Five Cents Savings Bank and St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Former member, Massachusetts Governor's Committee on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice. Former trustee, Archaeological Institute of America. Former director, World Wildlife Fund.

Chairman, World Press Freedom Committee. Member of the board of trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; trustee, Storm King Art Center; trustee, Bard College. Treasurer of Wallkill Valley Land Trust, Inc.

Honorary degrees: Doctor of Journalism, Suffolk University, 1970; Doctor of Business Administration, Southeastern Massachusetts University, 1984.

Married Mary Hyde, Vassar, B.A., 1959. Three children. Lives in New Paltz, New York. Jim and Mary spent their five-month honeymoon in 1960 visiting archaeological sites on the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, and owned a home on Syros in the 1970s.
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A professional journalist for 17 years, Chidu Rajghatta is presently the Foreign Editor and U.S. Correspondent of The Times of India, India's largest newspaper, and the second largest English Broadsheet Daily in the Free World.

Based in Washington DC, he reports mainly on politics, diplomacy and strategic affairs. He also writes often on the arts and literature, sports and human endeavor, and issues related to science and technology. He is the author of The Horse That Flew: How India's Silicon Gurus Spread Their Wings published by Harper Collins this past summer.

Experience: April 2001 to Present: Foreign Editor and Washington Correspondent, The Times of India, Washington DC; January 1995 to March 2001, U.S. Correspondent, The Indian Express, Washington DC; September 1993 to December 1994, Resident Editor, The Indian Express, Bombay; January 1990 to August 1993, Roving Correspondent and Editor, The Times of India, New Delhi.

Education: 1982 to 1983 - M.S. in Communication, Bangalore University, Bangalore; 1981 to 1982 - B.S. in Mass Communication and Journalism, Bangalore University, Bangalore; 1978 to 1980 ñ B.S. in Chemistry and Life Sciences, National College, Bangalore.

Interests: Human spirit and endeavor; American humor; Travel.
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