THE BRIEF by Maya Plentz
Maya Plentz is the founder and chief editor of THE BRIEF, a weekly newsletter with exclusive interviews and analysis focusing on tech policy, and the global digital economy. She has over two decades of experience in the news media sector. Her work has aired at UN Radio, BBC World, RFI and Bloomberg TV.
During her tenure as a producer and presenter at Bloomberg TV in New York, she covered Google, Microsoft, and the 2000 dot-com boom. She also produced a daily segment on science, medicine, and technology.
At the UN News and Media Division in New York, she served as a broadcast producer and website news editor, conducting interviews with UN officials, government representatives, and diplomats. Her programs reached millions of viewers weekly across the globe, airing on UN national broadcast partners in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
As a member of the European Commission High-Level Group of Experts, under the leadership of Pascal Lamy, former WTO Director General and Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research and Innovation, she was tasked with reviewing the EU's research and innovation funding framework, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. She provided advisory on communication strategies to promote innovation funding at the EU.
THE BRIEF by Maya Plentz
Elena Hernandez: Media Relations at the International Criminal Court
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Support the show & get subscriber-only content.Elena Hernandez has worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross, and at the UN in New York, during the 73rd General Assembly, in their media department, supporting the relationship with international correspondents.
Now she is a Media and Communications Officer at the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, where she manages and produces social media content, analyses statistics on their website and social media channels, produces news releases and reports, as well as manages the relationship with the international press.
She had an early start with her father being a journalist, and also living with a war correspondent in Washington and a journalist in Algeria, and has a degree in Journalism, Communication in Media Studies, from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a B.A. in International Law and Legal Studies, and a B.B.A. in Marketing and Communications from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, and has participated twice in the European Union Erasmus Program, in Germany and in Switzerland, as well as studied International Law and Human Rights at the American University in Washington, DC.
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