AGS Hosts Delegation of Media Professionals from Vietnam for Continuing Education Program

In December, the American Graduate School in Paris hosted an official delegation of media and publishing executives from Vietnam for a two-week professional development program focusing on the media and publishing industry in France.

The ten-day intensive curriculum involved seminars by specialized faculty and guest speakers as well as site visits and meetings at key media outlets and government institutions in France.

Some highlights of the program included a visit to the French Ministry of Culture and a tour of the French Senate along with meeting with an administrator of the Senate Commission for Culture, Education and Communication. The delegation also visited the headquarters of global broadcasters France Télévisions and TV5 Monde and those of the national daily newspapers Libération and L’Humanité.

The program was specially developed by AGS for the Vietnamese government at the request of Institute of Executive Training, which regularly works with Asian governments. It was designed and led by AGS Director Larry Kilman, who has specific expertise in the media and publishing industry as he was a journalist for twenty years in the the US, Asia and Europe, and served as the Secretary General of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.

“Being a small specialized school with passionate faculty and staff, we were able to build this successful program ad hoc around the needs of the Vietnamese delegation, drawing from our experience and contacts to make the most of the rich resources that Paris offers,” says Larry Kilman. "Through such initiatives, we seek to foster exchange of knowledge and dialog between nations through education."

AGS is currently working on several projects for similar short-term, intensive Paris-based certificate programs with other partner institutions, on such topics as diplomacy and communications.

Some highlights of the program: