Robert Coren - Director Fred

Robert Coren is a journalist, presenter and producer working in television, corporate video, and new media.

As a newscaster, Robert has chaired event-connected TV coverage all around the world, within the IT, telecommunications, interactive entertainment, housing, and travel and tourism industries. His seven-year association with Telecom TV has seen Robert filming every major development in wired and wireless communication across four continents. Robert has also delivered seminars for BT customer relationship programmes, and hosted a live Web radio series for the company. His training presentations include videos or CD-ROM's for Honda, for the police, and for the Department of Health - including a module on chemotherapy administration that has recently won a clutch of international awards.

Robert has produced as well two documentaries about British Red Cross work in Africa. In September 2000 he reported from resettlement camps in the aftermath of flooding in Mozambique, also filming clean water projects in Malawi. At the end of 2002, Robert reported on HIV work in South Africa. His documentary "Positive Action" was used to introduce Nelson Mandela when the former South African President received the Red Cross Humanity Fellowship Award. Robert's latest documentary, following a group of charity trekkers across Inca sites in the Peruvian Andes, will be premiered in October.

Robert is an enthusiastic user of technology in all of its forms. He is desktopped, laptopped, DVD-R'ed, iPodded and WIFI-ed up to the hilt, to the despair of his family and to the delight of numerous retailers in London's Tottenham Court Road.

The photo strip shows a commercial INM made to promote Live TV (World Telecom 1999, Geneva). The advertisement was shown on CNN in the days immediately before the event. Robert is standing on the cliff in Southwest England from where Marconi first transmitted radio across the Atlantic. The dish is at the nearby Goonhilly satellite earth station.

The other photo shows Robert at the lost Inca cloud city of Machu Picchu (April 2004).