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Sean Walsh is an international communications consultant and executive trainer with extensive experience in broadcast journalism, communications and business development. He is currently engaged as the international consultant at CCTV-News in Beijing, China’s 24-hour English TV news channel. Sean also led a major editorial training and consultancy project in West Africa for Sony Professional Solutions. This involved the merger of the TV and radio newsrooms at the state broadcaster in Ghana, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, BGC, and the migration to digital production in a new multi-million dollar news centre. Sean is a director of UK-based communications consultancy and production house, Visionworks, and has worked with clients including Dell, British Chambers of Commerce, Incisive Media, international law firms Mayer Brown, Simmons & Simmons and Kennedys and US pharmaceutical giant, Inverness Medical. He has more than 20 years editorial production and management experience with broadcasters including BBCTV News, on the newsdesk at ITN, and as a correspondent & presenter with US business channel, CNBC. He has also produced and presented the internal TV programming for the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland, interviewing business and political leaders from around the globe including the President of Bulgaria, the Australian Foreign Minister, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Chief Scientist Sun Microsystems. In the past decade he has filmed across the world from Nairobi to Hong Kong, to New York and Abu Dhabi for clients such as Eli Lilly, ACCA, Prudential and BT. Sean holds a Masters Degree in Mass Communications from the Centre for Mass Communications Research at the University of Leicester in the UK. He also heads up the Television training on the industry-accredited BA (Hons) courses in the Journalism Department at the University for the Creative Arts in the UK, one of the largest creative training institutions in Europe. He was awarded a Harpur Trust scholarship to Bedford School 1970-1977.