Biography
Michael Rose is a journalist, broadcaster, media trainer, author and former corporate communications executive. Originally from Canada, Rose is now based in Sydney, Australia. He has worked in a senior capacity for major media organizations around the world such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Maclean's Magazine, UPI, Radio France International, Australia's Sydney Morning Herald newspaper and the Reuters news agency in London, where he worked as Chief Editor on the World Desk. From 2003-2006 he was Chief of Communications and Publications for Interpol at the police agency's global headquarters in Lyon, France.
His work has taken him throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. That itinerary included a series of trouble spots, including Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Haiti; Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Zambia and Zimbabwe; Indonesia, Fiji and East Timor.
A native of Montreal, Rose attended Concordia University there and earned a Bachelor's degree in English literature and psychology. He then studied journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa, after which he began his career in the media in 1979. He holds an Honours Masters degree in journalism from the University of Wollongong in Australia. He is a former Visiting Fellow with the Journalists in Europe Foundation in Paris.
Over the last twenty-five years, Rose has written extensively in a variety of media genres - news reporting, political commentary and analysis, as well as feature and travel articles. He is the author of four books. He has taught journalism at the University of Western Sydney and the University of Sydney in Australia, and has delivered guest lectures at Montreal's Concordia University and the University of Hanoi, Viet Nam. He has also trained working journalists in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, East Timor, Thailand and Sweden.
Rose has provided consultancy services to a range of organizations, including the South African Broadcasting Corporation, AusAID, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the New South Wales Refugee Review Tribunal, the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Conciliation Resources London, the Reuters Foundation, Internews, the Press Development Institute of Thailand, Canon Asia-Pacific (via Hill&Knowlton), Australia Wool Innovation Limited, the United Nations Political Office for Somalia, and the Centre for Research and Dialogue (Somalia).
He founded Global Communication Associates in 2006.