Gerry Power

Gerry was appointed Managing Director of the London offices of InterMedia. in July 2010. Prior to joining InterMedia, Power served as Director of Research and Learning at the BBC World Service Trust, working across radio, television, internet and mobile platforms. His global team delivered research in more than 40 countries. Under his stewardship, the Trust’s research team received the 2009 Global Reith Award for Professional Services from the Global News Division at the BBC. From 1996 to 2003, Gerry directed strategic consulting and research teams for Frank N. Magid Associates in New York and London. He has served on the faculty at the University of Texas, the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and as an associate faculty member in the Department of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics. In 2010, Gerry was awarded the Communication Research as Collaborative Practice Award by the International Communication Association.

His work has appeared in the International Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication Inquiry and the Journal of Health Communication. He is co-editor with Theresa Byrd of U.S. Mexico Border Health: Implications for Regional and Migrant Populations and of Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change co-edited with Andrew Skuse and Marie Gillespie to be published by SAGE India in 2011. Gerry holds a PhD (Communication Theory and Research) and an MA (Communication Management) from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.