Andrei Richter

Andrei Richter is senior adviser, earlier - director of the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

Born in 1959 in Kharkov, Ukraine, he has university degrees in law, foreign languages, and a doctorate degree in journalism. In 2015 he became a habilitated professor of mass media studies in Slovakia. Richter was a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in 2000-2013 and Co-chair of the Law Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research in 1996-2010.[1][2]

Richter edited the only publication on media law in Russian (ZiP) and sits on editorial boards of a number of international journals on communications and the media.[3] He authored over 200 publications on media law in Russian, English, Armenian, Azeri, Ukrainian, Serbian, Slovak, German and French, including the only standard textbook on media law for journalism students of Russian colleges and universities (2002, 2009 and 2016), a textbook on online media law (2014), a book of reading materials on media law for students and journalists (2004, 2011), a UNESCO textbook on international standards of media freedom (2011, in Russian) and a UNESCO publication – a book titled Post-Soviet Perspective on Censorship and Freedom of the Media (2007).

In the 1990s Richter was the Moscow Representative of the International Commission on Radio and Television Policy (co-chaired by Pres. Jimmy Carter and Eduard Sagalaev),[4] Visiting Professor in Journalism at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a visiting researcher at the Gannett Media Studies Center at Columbia University, NYC.