Intellect

Jan Servaes (PhD, 1987, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication and Director of the SBS Center ‘Communication for Sustainable Social Change (CSSC)’ at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA, www.umass.edu/communication), Editor-in-Chief of ‘Telematics and Informatics: An Interdisciplinary Journal on the Social Impacts of New Technologies' (Elsevier, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/tele), Editor-in-Chief of ‘Communication for Development and Social Change: A Global Journal’ (Hampton Press, http://www.temple.edu/cdsc/), Editor of the Southbound Book Series ‘Communication for Development and Social Change’ (http://www.Southbound.com.my), and Editor of the Hampton Book Series ‘Communication, Globalization and Cultural Identity’ (http://www.hamptonpress.com/comm_global.htm). He chaired the Scientific Committee for the World Congress on Communication for Development (Rome, 25-27 October 2006), organized by the World Bank, FAO and the Communication Initiative.