Europe Board of Directors
Dart Centre Europe activities are supported and overseen by a board of distinguished media and trauma professionals.
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David Loyn
Director
David Loyn is an award-winning foreign correspondent for the BBC, where he has worked for 30 years reporting from Moscow, Kosovo, Kashmir, and Kabul, among other places. He also was the only foreign correspondent who was with the Taliban when they took Kabul in 1996.
His latest book, "In Afghanistan: Two Hundred Years of British, Russian and American Occupation," explores the country's long history of foreign occupation and war, and its long-standing reputation as an unconquerable place. His previous book, "Frontline: The True Story of the British Mavericks who Changed the Face of War Reporting," was shortlisted for the 2006 Orwell Prize. He was a Dart Center Ochberg Fellow in 2005.
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Douglas Heydon
Finance
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Kate Nowlan
Director
Nowlan is a psychotherapist , currently in post as Chief Executive of CiC—an Employee Assistance Programme that delivers 24 hr practical and emotional support to companies in the public and private sector. She has a particular interest in trauma work and the effect that prolonged exposure to trauma has on groups and individuals—particularly journalists and those working in hostile environments.
She has worked as trainer and therapist on trauma programmes throughout the UK and in Ireland and South Africa and was responsible for a recent conference on Terrorism and Traumatic Stress at the National Liberal Club in London.
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Rupert Reid
Director
Rupert Reid is a former police officer, who has specialized in corporate contingency planning and crisis management for the past 14 years. He has worked extensively for both the multi-national corporate sector and the special risks insurance market covering terrorism, kidnap and extortion.
He has been involved in the training of personnel operating in high risk areas, and the de-briefing of those affected by trauma through their experiences in the field. He speaks Spanish and French, and holds a Masters Degree in Security Risk Management.
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Stephen Jukes
Director
Stephen Jukes is dean of The Media School at Bournemouth University. He has spent most of his working career as a foreign correspondent, covering news in eastern and western Europe, the Middle East and the United States for the international news agency Reuters.
He began his career as a local newspaper reporter in Brighton before switching to Reuters. During a series of postings over more than 20 years he covered numerous top stories, ranging from the ousting of Margaret Thatcher and disappearance of Robert Maxwell to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. He has reported extensively from the Middle East, interviewing King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and overseeing cover of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
In his final position at Reuters, Jukes was global Head of News, responsible for the quality of all Editorial output including text, television, news pictures and graphics. He also ran Reuters publishing programme, overseeing a series of books on foreign and financial affairs in conjunction with Pearson and Prentice Hall.
He is a member of the Dart Centre's advisory board, deputy chair of the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund (a charity in honour of a U.S. war correspondent killed in Sierra Leone) and a trustee of MediaWise (an organisation promoting ethical standards in journalism).
Before taking up his appointment in Bournemouth, Jukes was a visiting scholar at Green College, Oxford, where he has been working on two books on the media, focusing on the issues of spin and trauma. He has an MA in modern languages (French and German) from Hertford College, Oxford.