Professor Jude William Genilo has been appointed Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB).
ULAB’s Chancellor, President Mohammad Abdul Hamid has recently appointed him for this position for four years.
Prior to becoming the Pro VC, he served as the head of the Media Studies and Journalism department, Dean of the School of Social Science, and the Director of the Institutional Quality Assurance Cell at ULAB.
Professor Jude earned his Doctor of Philosophy and Master’s Degree in Communication from the University of the Philippines-Diliman, the country's national university. He completed his undergraduate degrees in Bachelor of Arts (Economics) and Bachelor of Science in Commerce (Management) from De La Salle University, Manila.
Before joining ULAB as one of its respected foreign instructors, he headed the postgraduate program of the London School of Public Relations in Jakarta, Indonesia. He served as a research fellow at the Kasertsart University Research and Development Institute in Thailand.
Professor Jude received numerous awards such as ASIA Fellows Awards and the UN Foundation-International Communication Association Research Grant Award.
He also served as the author/editor of ‘Community-Based Communication: A New Approach to Development Communication’; ‘Bangladesh's Changing Mediascape: From State Control to Market Forces (with Prof. Brian Shoesmith)’; and Revisiting Anwar Hossain's '71 (with Muhammad Abdul Kader).