Ursula Freundt-Thurne Freundt

Personal data

Born November 2, 1961 in Lima, Perú
Mother of three girls.
Marathon runner (four New York marathons and one Twin Cities marathon)

Present positions

Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences,
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)

Director, Journalism Program

Publications Director

Professor at the Communication Science Faculty, (Introduction to Communication Workshop)

Previous positions

Information Chief, "Promoviendo" (television program), Channel 2

Writer/Editor, "Cosas", "Acción Rural", "Justicia" and "Volando" (magazines), El Comercio (newspaper)

Coordinator, Nutritional Project, PNUD

Professor of Journalism, Universidad de Lima (Introduction to Journalism, Writing and Editing)

Education

Strategic Management for Higher Education, 2001, Harvard Extension School/UPC,

General Executive Education (EEG), 2001, Business School, University of Applied Sciences

Professional Communications Certificate, Master's Program in Business Communications, Saint Thomas University, Minnesota, 1989

Licenciada in Communications Sciences. Universidad de Lima, 1987

Bachelor's Degree, Communications Sciences, Specialization in
Journalism, Universidad de Lima, 1986

Bachelor in Modern Languages, Abitur (Erweiterten Erganzungsprufung), Ernst Wilhelm, Middendorf, 1980

Memberships

El Comercio Advisory Council (most relevant Peruvian newspaper)

Member of the Latin American Accreditation Council in Journalism. (Consejo Latino Americano de Acreditación de la Educación en Periodismo (CLAEP), managed by the Interamerican Press Society (SIP).

Citizen Oversight Advisory Council (Veeduría Ciudadana de la Comunicación)

"Creatividad Presidencial" Organizing Committee (Presidential debates and voter education for national elections) and "Creatividad Municipal" (same for municipal elections)

Publications

"Information Society. New Telecommunications tendencies," 2003 Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC).

"Dialogues with the future," 2002

Essays about Lima's 20th Century, "Governability"

Article: "The Lima that is told. How media constructs a city," Fundación Friedrich Ebert.

"Journalism and the 1998 Municipal Elections," Fundación Friedrich
Ebert, 1999

Editor, more than 20 books.