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Nicholas Claxton is the Founding Partner and Chief Executive of WOW Media Group - an independent media communications company based in Dubai. Responsible for overseeing the overall management of the business, the company's strategic direction and its multi-media output, his overarching objective is to ensure that WMG is a centre of creative excellence for its clients, championing memorable and game-changing concepts - both regionally and internationally. His experience of the Gulf region was born out of spearheading the editorial and commercial strategy for the launch of a new 24/7 Satellite TV channel in the United Arab Emirates and prior to this he was the Managing Director of Elaph, a major online newspaper in the Middle East. He is also a Director of First Watch, a media incubation company specializing in the development of multi-media concepts. He was the Founder and Managing Director of the Web TV The Underwater Channel with Babelgum as its principal investor. He is also an award-winning documentary film-maker with extensive credits as an Executive Producer, Director & Producer with the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, National Geographic, Discovery, A&E Network, Disney, among many others. 〔 〕 He was joint producer of a 1984 television documentary ''Cry Ethiopia Cry'' (on the Ethiopian famine) which won a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award for outstanding background/analysis of a single current story.〔 〕 He won New York International Film and Television Festival awards for ''Apartheid’s Assassins'' (1991), on South African death squads; and ''Winnie Mandela and The Missing Witness'' (1997).〔 〕 His South African visa exemption was withdrawn following the BBC broadcast of ''Suffer the Children'' (1988), on the detention and torture of children. Claxton was Research Project Documentary Film Director for the Khaled Bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Red Sea Project〔 〕 and conceived the idea for a free broadband channel dedicated to the underwater world which came about when Nicholas Claxton was producing a television documentary about Red Sea coral reefs in 2006, working with the revered underwater cameraman Peter Scoones. Nicholas is a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society, a Founding Trustee of the UK based Charity Elephant Family, and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Myanmar Matters - part of an Indian owned Publishing House. He lives in Dubai. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicholas Claxton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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