David Dadge

Director, International Press Institute, Vienna
The holder of an LLB (hons) law degree, David Dadge is the author of a series of books on press freedom: “Casualty of War: The Bush Administration’s Assault on a Free Press”, “Silenced: International Journalists Expose Media Censorship”, and “The War in Iraq and Why the Media Failed Us”. The former editor of IPI’s World Press Freedom Review, he specialises in press freedom on the African sub-continent, as well as various legal issues related to press freedom. David Dadge assumed the directorship of IPI in January 2008.