José-María Siles is a Spanish journalist and expert on international affairs who has over 40 years of experience as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for major news organizations in Europe, Africa, and America. He is currently the director of aNews, a correspondent agency based in Brussels, and speaks externally for the European Commission. Siles has covered many international conflicts and events over his career, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the war in the Balkans, and elections in Haiti. He holds a Master's degree in communication and speaks several languages fluently.

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José-Maria Siles
Spanish Journalist and expert on International Affairs
Director of aNews, the correspondent agency
• ELECTIONS OBSERVATION
2011 – HAITI, Presidential elections, Mission of Electoral Observation OAS
• Degree in Communication and Information Sciences
• Foreign correspondent and war reporter over 20 years in Europe, Africa and
America
• TVE Bureau chief in Bonn, Berlin, Rabat, New York, Washington and Brussels
• Independent producer and documentary director
• Teacher of Masters in Investigative Journalism, TV News Production and the Art
of Communication in Madrid
• European Commission External Speaker
• Excellent knowledge of the European Union policies and institutions
• Able to produce sound political analysis
• Strong communication skills
• Very experienced in planning and organizing
• Used to leading multilingual teams
• Managerial experience
• English (fluent), French (fluent), German (fluent), Spanish (native)
Perfil online: http://tinyurl.com/6yqbdob
Web: http://anews.eu/es/correspondents/view/1
Rue Forestière, 19 · 1050 Brussels, Belgium · +32 491 59 31 64 · siles@anews.eu

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• 2008 - present
- aNews, The Correspondent Agency
- Director & Foreign Correspondent
• 2008 - present
- European Commission
- External Speaker
• 2007
- Europarl TV, The European Parliament Web TV
- Senior European Affairs Correspondent
• 2005 - 2007
- TVE, the National TV of Spain
- News coverage of the Lebanon War and conflicts in Congo and Haiti
• 1996 - 2005
- TVE in Berlin, New York and Brussels
- Bureau Chief
• 1994 - 1995
- Canal Sur Televisión, Sevilla
- Director
• 1992 - 1994
- TVE, the National TV of Spain
- Foreign Correspondent
- News coverage of the war in the Balkans and the Siege of Sarajevo
• 1990 - 1992
- TVE in Rabat
- Foreign Correspondent and Bureau Chief for the Maghreb countries
• 1986 - 1990
- TVE in Germany, Central Europe and the Balkans
- Foreign Correspondent and Bureau Chief
- News coverage of the last years of a divided Europe and Fall of the Berlin Wall
• 1978 - 1983
- Antena 3 Radio, El País, Radio France Internationale
- Paris Correspondent
• 1974 - 1979
- Universidad Autónoma, Barcelona
- Masters degree in Communication and Information Sciences
Rue Forestière, 19 · 1050 Brussels, Belgium · +32 491 59 31 64 · siles@anews.eu

3. josé-maría siles
Spanish journalist and expert on international affairs, José-María Siles has been a foreign
correspondent in Paris, Bonn, Rabat, Berlin, New York, Washington DC and Brussels.
Among others assignments around the world, José-María Siles covered the last Lebanon war
with Israel, the people uprisings in Haiti and the arrival of democracy to Congo-Kinshasa. He is
now director of aNews, a correspondent agency based in Brussels, and External Speaker of the
European Commission.
As a university student, he produced documentary films suffering censorship under the
Franco's rule before receiving a postgraduate Master's degree in Communication Sciences and
Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
His experience as an international journalist began working for the News Desk of ‘Radio France
Internationale’ and as a correspondent in Paris for Spanish newspapers.
In 1986, the National Television of Spain, TVE, sent him as Bureau Chief to Germany in 1986
where he covered the last years of the cold war in a still divided country. In the night of
November, 9 1989, he was one of the first journalists reporting live on the fall of the Berlin
Wall from the Checkpoint Charlie on both sides of the wall.
After the Germany reunification, he opened a new TVE office in Rabat covering the rise of
Islamic extremism in North Africa and the beginning of the decolonization process in the West
Sahara. A as a war correspondent he witnessed since 1992 the dramatic siege of Sarajevo and
the reunification of the city after the Dayton Agreement. Later on he followed the Slobodan
Miloševic' trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
In 1994 he was named director of ‘Canal Sur Televisión’, the Public Broadcaster of Andalusia
(Spain). After this experience in Seville, reorganizing the news department, he served two
years as TVE US correspondent based in New York and Washington before being European
Affairs correspondent since December 2000.
As a consultant in Brussels, he is now promoting with aNews a pan-European cooperation
among public service TV stations in the field of News and Documentaries.
Rue Forestière, 19 · 1050 Brussels, Belgium · +32 491 59 31 64 · siles@anews.eu