Press Release Strasbourg, 1st October 2007 Two new analysts at the Observatory		Profile of Florence Hartman
		Profile of Martin Kanzler
		LUMIERE database
		KORDA database
		Press Release on the creation of the MAVISE database

The European Audiovisual Observatory has just announced the engagement of two new analysts to strengthen its team.

The Strasbourg-based Observatory has hired Martin Kanzler, an Austrian business economist who previously worked as M&A Analyst for Ernst & Young Corporate Finance in Berlin. Kanzler will take over all statistical data collection related to the cinema industry in Europe and in particular the running of the Observatory’s LUMIERE database which provides data on admissions of the films released in European cinemas since 1996. Susan Newman-Baudais, previously in charge of this field, will take over responsibility for all data on public funding in the audiovisual sector and will assume the running of the Observatory’s KORDA database on public funding for film and audiovisual production and distribution in Europe.

The Observatory also has taken on a second analyst, Florence Hartmann, a French economist with a research Masters in Applied Economics who previously lectured in the subject at Sciences Po. in Paris. Hartmann will expand the team currently working on MAVISE: a unique database of European television channels and companies being developed by the Observatory for the DG Communication of the European Commission. Hartmann joins analyst, Julie Ruff, formerly Responsible for EU Affairs and PR at the Association of Commercial Television (ACT).

The two new analysts will be part of Department for Information on Markets and Financing headed by André Lange.

Wolfgang Closs, the Observatory’s Executive Director, welcomed these two new appointments as “a clear indication that the Observatory’s work in providing reliable information to the audiovisual sector in Europe is growing in importance and range.”

Journalists, please contact:
Alison Hindhaugh, Information and Press Officer, tel.: +33 (0) 3 88 14 44 10 -E-mail: alison.hindhaugh@coe.int

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The European Audiovisual Observatory Set up in December 1992, the European Audiovisual Observatory's mission is to gather and distribute information on the audiovisual industry in Europe. The Observatory is a European public service body comprised of 37 member states and the European Union, represented by the European Commission. It operates within the legal framework of the Council of Europe and works alongside a number of partner and professional organisations from within the industry and with a network of correspondents. In addition to contributions to conferences, other major activities are the publication of a Yearbook, newsletters and reports, the compilation and management of databases and the provision of information through the Observatory’s Internet site (http://www.obs.coe.int).