Marcus Ferrar is Chairman of The Dresden Trust www.dresdentrust.org, set up to further reconciliation and friendship between Britain and Dresden. He is also Chairman of the Friends of Summertown Library in Oxford, having campaigned to keep the Library open and raised £90,000 for its renovation. He is an author of books about Germany and Central & Eastern Europe, and another about freedom. He specialises in people with difficult pasts in WWII and Communism.He published "A Foot In Both Camps: A German Past For Better And For Worse" in 2012. He published "The Budapest House: a Life Re-Discovered" in 2013. See www.thebudapesthouse.com. He is co-author with John Corsellis of "Slovenia 1945," about massacres in ex-Yugoslavia at the end of WWII, published in 3 languages. He published "The Fight for Freedom" in 2016.He teaches journalism as a consultant for Swisscontact in Eastern Europe and third world countries. He is Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Baron, a web site covering media trends http://www.thebaron.info/.As an independent communication consultant, he worked for British Airways, Caterpillar, Kodak and the World Economic Forum. He is based in Oxford, England.He earlier worked with Reuters as a foreign correspondent in Germany, E. Europe, France, Portugal and Switzerland. He managed Reuters media business in Europe and headed Public Relations, global advertising, brand development, internal communications and Formula One sponsorship. He won a Gold Quill Award of Excellence with the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). He is a past President of IABC Switzerland, and a past Chair of the Gold Quill judging panel.Specialties: - Advising on Germany and Eastern Europe- Formulating strategies through integrated communications- "Communicating to Convince" training- Media training- Upgrading content of web sites - Branding and repositioning- Drafting and editing documents,