Irini Katsirea is Reader in International Media Law at the University of Sheffield. She has studied at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Leicester and Magdalene College, Cambridge. Her research interests are in the areas of International and Comparative Media Law and Policy. She is the author of Public Broadcasting and European Law: A Comparative Examination of Public Service Obligations in Six Member States (Kluwer, 2008) and of Cultural Diversity and European Integration in Conflict and in Harmony (Ant. N. Sakkoulas, 2001).