Ivan Sigal
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
October 1, 2007 – July 31, 2008
Project Focus:
Old Media, New Media and Media Assistance in Conflict Prone Settings
Civil Society | Democratization | Ethnic Conflict | Human Rights | Media and Conflict | Post-Conflict Reconstruction | Rule of Law
Phone: (202) 429-3877
E-mail: isigal@usip.org
Languages: Russian
Ivan Sigal focuses on how increased media and information access and participation using new technologies affect conflict-prone areas, particularly in Central and South Asia and the Horn of Africa. He has worked for Internews Network for the past decade as the regional director for Asia, Central Asia, and Afghanistan; the country director for Tajikistan; and as a researcher and consultant on the former Soviet Union.
At Internews, Sigal designed and implemented numerous media assistance projects. Notable recent projects include the development
of an independent radio sector in Afghanistan, helping to create more than thirty Afghan-run radio stations; the production
of radio information and news programming and journalist training along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border; a project to provide humanitarian information to victims of the 2005 South Asian earthquake in Pakistan-administered Kashmir; and a post-2004 tsunami humanitarian information radio program in Sri Lanka. Sigal has also worked as a freelance photographer and in documentary film and print media as writer and editor.
His awards include a Professional Development Fellowship from the Institute for International Education, the John Cabot Moor Fellowship for study at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship
for Russian study. Sigal served as a senior editor for the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs and a researcher at the Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy at Fletcher.
He holds an undergraduate degree in literature from Williams College and an M.A. in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School.
