Mr Daya Thussu, is Professor of International Communication and the Co-Director of the India Media Centre, the world’s first academic centre dedicated to the study of media in India and its globalizing tendencies, launched in 2010 at the University of Westminster in London. A PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he is the founder and Managing Editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication.

Author or editor of 16 books, among his key publications are: Communicating India’s Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood(Palgrave, 2013); Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (Sage, 2012); Internationalizing Media Studies (Routledge, 2009); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (Sage, 2007); Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow (Routledge, 2006); International Communication – Continuity and Change, third edition (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming); and Electronic Empires – Global Media and Local Resistance (Arnold, 1998). Professor Thussu has been a consultant for UNESCO and has trained journalists from Asia and Africa in the field of development communications on behalf of the UNDP.