Donna Liu

As Director for Strategic Initiatives at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Liu oversees the use of the new media in public policy education. She is the founder and Executive Director of the UChannel Project (http://uc.princeton.edu), a multimedia portal for recordings of public lectures and events from an international consortium of universities. She is also the WWS facilitator for PolicyNet, a social networking tool hosted by CIGI, and dedicated to collaboration in teaching and learning about public policy.

Liu has taught courses in Mass Media and Television News at Princeton University. Before coming to Princeton in 2002, she was a news producer and manager at CNN for 18 years. She founded CNN International’s Asia Production Center in Hong Kong in 1995 and launched the network’s first Asian regional news programming. Professional recognition includes an Emmy for coverage of the Tiananmen protests in China in 1989, and an ACE award for coverage of the 1991 Gulf War.