George Leclere

Founder and President of LGMA Inc., a global Media consulting company, Georges Leclere is also the creator of several initiatives using television and Media to fight the causes of Global Warming. Starting with format game shows entitled "Go for Green!" and "District Green", continuing with a Reality show and several fictions in development. Through LGMA, Leclere advises international companies on worldwide media ranging from classic television events to future visual media on any platform. One of his main specialties is currently to build International Television Programs Competitions completed by Awards ceremonies. Among its recent clients and endeavors, LGMA was appointed, in October 2008, Director of the Banff World Television Festival Program Competition and Awards. In 2010, Leclere created the Francophone TV Programs Competition and the Banff International Pilots Competition (See www.banffmediafestival.com). That same year, Leclere produced the History Makers Awards competition and Awards, (See www.historymakers2011.com). Georges is also advisor for the Foundation for International Understanding, an initiative of the US Congress, Advisor for the Sichuan TV Festival in China and the Seoul Drama Awards. During this century alone, Leclere was consultant for several companies from the South South News, UN related Organization, to the Monaco Media Forum and the Rose d'Or Festival, The Prix Galien and The Elie Wiesel Foundation. As of March 2011, Leclere, together with the Board of directors, is starting a new initiative Music as a Natural Resource, (www.musicasanaturalresource.com), for which he will produce the Awards ceremony. From November 1997 to December 2006, Leclere was Executive Director then Senior Vice-President of The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a sister organization of the US Television Academies, organizing the International Emmy Awards, based in New York. Georges was also the Executive Producer of the International Emmy Awards Gala ceremony and its Television shows. Currently a Fellow of the International Academy, Georges Leclere is credited with the creation of the iEMMYs Festival, screening all International Emmy nominated programs, with the regional semifinal Emmy judging across the world and to have developed the News Emmy Category among others. He also initiated the Interactive TV Emmys for International programming awarded for the first time in April 2006 and called today the International Digital Emmys. Previously, Mr. Leclere held key positions within the International Council, (Academy's previous name) as Chairman of the Nominating Committee and the Net-TV Committee, Director of the Board, and member of the Executive Committee. Georges Leclere began his broadcasting career in Lebanon in 1968, as a producer and on-air personality for the French-speaking channels in Beirut. He anchored the 1968 Mexico Olympics for Beirut's francophone Channel 11, and started sports news programs on Beirut francophone National Lebanese radio. Returning to his native France in 1969, Mr. Leclere appeared regularly on television as a special correspondent for evening news on the ORTF Channels (Information Premiere and INF2) and, later, as head of the Sciences & Technology News department on Antenne 2 before it became France-Televisions. He also reported on scientific and technological subjects, including stories on Space Exploration, Solar and Alternative Energies, Computers and the first forays into the Internet --- at the time (1980') known in France as the Minitel. In 1984 and 1985 he was anchor on TF1 of the first primetime show, TIFY, about computers and programming and anchor & producer of the weekly Pike & Poke & Colegram. Then, for FR3, he was involved in an international co-productions with the US-based Sesame Workshop, (Children's Television Workshop at that time), titled "3-2-1 Contact." In April 1986, Leclere moved to New York City to become the Director for Press, Radio and Television for the United Nations, a position he held until 1993. Mr. Leclere, in 1993, was associated with the European Bank in London, with UNICEF and with the UN peacekeeping forces in Somalia. He has also served as an international multimedia consultant for AOM International, representing the new French Educational TV Network, La Cinquième, the Franco-German Cultural Channel, ARTE and the French Export organization, TVFI from 1994 through 1997. Leclere was writer and co-producer of Generation 2000, a 12 parts series with Unicef and TV Ontario in Canada. He produced and anchored the first ever Live Daily TV show for 10 consecutive days from the Paris Air Show in June 1997. Author of two Books on Solar Energy and on Space Exploration, Leclere has an extensive teaching experience: From Tsing Hua University in Beijing, to NYU in New York and Centre Pompidou in Paris, from Kazakhstan to Georgia, from Latvia to Armenia and Ukraine, from Brooklyn College, Fordham to St John's University ... All places where he conducted panels, seminars and workshops. Born in Paris, France, Mr. Leclere studied science extensively with specialization in chemistry and astronomy at the French University in Paris. In June 2003, the French Government awarded Georges Leclere the Medal of "Chevalier des Arts & des Lettres". Mr. Leclere resides in the State of New York, USA with his wife, the renowned author Alexandra Leclere. They have four children and five grand Children.