Mark Bauman brings more than 20 years of award-winning experience to his role as Executive Vice President of National Geographic Television, overseeing music and natural history series for PBS, NGC and NGCI, as well as National Geographic's web and mobile video production. He has been recognized with numerous broadcast and print journalism honors, including an Emmy, more than a dozen Cine Golden Eagles, and various film festival awards. Bauman also launched an international film festival for the Society, showcasing cutting edge works from indigenous and minority culture filmmakers around the world. Before coming to National Geographic, Bauman, who is fluent in Spanish, Russian, Czech and Italian, was based in Eastern Europe and Latin America for ABC News, where he ran Baghdad and Balkan coverage for extended periods of time. He has also covered war and genocide in Central Africa, Lebanon, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq for world class media outlets, including ABC, the BBC, CNN, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, Izvestia (Russian), The Ladies Home Journal, The London Observer Sunday Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, National Public Radio, New York Newsday, Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Russian), Reflex (Czech), The San Francisco Chronicle, Spy, Time, The Village Voice and The Washington Post.

Bauman holds a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University, in addition to a masters in international relations from Johns Hopkins University. He has lectured on journalism, media and documentary production at Columbia University, New York University, Stanford University, the University of Indiana at Bloomington, Moscow State University, Charles University (Prague), the University of Miami, and Montana State University in Bozeman.

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