ALLWYN FERNANDES PASSES AWAY, CHURCH AND CIVIL SOCIETY MOURN THE LOSS OF A BRAVEHEART
-by JOHN DAYAL
ALLWYN FERNANDES, veteran journalist, communication consultant and lay Catholic activist, expired late on Tuesday
evening in Mumbai after a two year battle with cancer which he fought
as tenaciously as he had fought many social ills in his long and
distinguished career.
He
is survived by his wife Enid, children Rohini and Rohan. He is mourned
by a large circle of friends in the Media, Politics, civil society and
management circles, including a large number of students he mentored
over the decades. His death was announced in social media by Fr Cedric
Prakash, SJ, the noted human rights activist and a close friend.
Allwyn
Fernandes, born 1 June 1948, headed the Media Practice and conducts
Media and Crisis Management Training for Edelman India Pvt. Ltd. Drawing
on his 25 years of media experience with The Times of India, Mumbai,
where he held several senior positions, he has been counseling a wide
range of global clients on media strategy and sensitivity for almost 20
years. He headed the Communications Skills Training for company
spokespersons, Crisis Management Training for senior management and
media awareness sessions for key executives, helping them to understand
what media is looking for and avoid needless conflict.
Allwyn
conducted media training sessions for senior management of several
global and Indian companies including the Tata Group, GE, Citibank,
J&J, Wal-Mart, Audi, Mercedes-Benz and technology companies like
Yahoo!
Besides
media training, Allwyn was been involved in several crisis management
situations and public affairs campaigns that involved spokespersons
training. He was invited to share his experiences on "Biotechnology in
Asian Agriculture – Generating Public Support" at the Asian Agriculture
Congress at Manila in April 2001.
Allwyn
majored in Physics-Mathematics from St Xavier’s College (Bombay
University in 1969) and then did his journalism from Bhavan’s College of
Mass Communication and the International Institute for Journalism in
Berlin.
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Very sad to inform you that my friend and Communications Professional Allwyn Fernandes expired today 2 December 2014 at 11 pm
He was a well known Communications Professional,
a compulsive communicator! He spent the first 25 years of his working
life as a full-time journalist and the last 17 years in corporate
communications.
He was Senior Asst Editor (1969 - 1994) of The Times of India:
He has been a ANZA High School Teacher, 1966 - 1969
He used was do Media Practice for Edelman India since 1994
He has been a ANZA High School Teacher, 1966 - 1969
He used was do Media Practice for Edelman India since 1994
He did Advanced Journalism, (1979 - 1979) at Int. Institute for Journalism, Berlin
Journalism Course (1969 - 1970) at RP College of Mass Communication
College in Physics-Maths, (1966 - 1969) at St Xavier's
Schooling (1960 - 1965) at Fatima High SchoolHigh School
Primary (1954 - 1960) at St Ignatius High School Primary & Middle School
Journalism Course (1969 - 1970) at RP College of Mass Communication
College in Physics-Maths, (1966 - 1969) at St Xavier's
Schooling (1960 - 1965) at Fatima High SchoolHigh School
Primary (1954 - 1960) at St Ignatius High School Primary & Middle School
He
also used to do lot of communications skills training and crisis
management. He has been a teacher in journalism schools, written books
(the last one being on the late consumer activist and India's Ralph
Nader, M.R. Pai). He used to network a great deal in person and on the
Internet through discussion groups.
Contacts:
+91- 98 200 48601
Tel: 29253152 /29207125 --->29253152
Res: Flat 11, Prerna, Military Road, Marol, Andheri (E), Mumbai 400 059
+91- 98 200 48601
Tel: 29253152 /29207125 --->29253152
Res: Flat 11, Prerna, Military Road, Marol, Andheri (E), Mumbai 400 059
