about the series

Azimuth Media and Oregon Public Broadcasting are proud to present a unique weekly series for Public Television, FOREIGN EXCHANGE with Daljit Dhaliwal.

Foreign Exchange is a weekly, half-hour international affairs series, hosted by acclaimed global journalist Daljit Dhaliwal. The series probes the global questions of the moment from a profound, new perspective. Join Daljit in conversations with international newsmakers, politicians, diplomats, and journalists, as she examines America's role in an increasingly complex and interdependent world.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE is presented to the PBS system by Oregon Public Broadcasting, a premier presenter station for the Public Broadcasting Service. Major funding is provided by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Additional support from the Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

For more information, contact Mark Sugg, Series Producer, at 202-797-5272 or via email.

Please visit the show archive for videos and transcripts from the series.

foreign exchange staff

BRUCE G. BLAIR
Executive Producer

Bruce Blair founded Azimuth Media in 2001. He received his B.S. in communications from the University of Illinois in 1970; served as a Minuteman ICBM launch control office in the U.S. Air Force; earned an M.S. in management sciences at Yale University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in operations research at Yale in 1984. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship Prize in 1999 for his work and leadership on de-alerting nuclear forces. Dr. Blair is the author of numerous books and articles on security issues in such publications as Scientific American, National Interest, New York Times and The Washington Post. His production credits include "Missile Wars," FRONTLINE, 2002; "Deadlock: Russia's Forgotten War," CNN Presents, 2002; and the series FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

MARK SUGG
Series Producer

Mark has been a non-profit television producer in Washington, DC for twenty years. He was the Director of Television Operations for America's Defense Monitor, a weekly documentary series devoted to international security issues. Previously he was the Director of Ideal Communications, Inc. an independent non-profit production company serving the educational video market and numerous broadcast outlets. Mark has a B.A. in Philosophy from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.

STEPHEN SAPIENZA
Senior Producer

Stephen is a producer and writer of television programs for national and international distribution. In 2007, he produced four short documentaries films for a web-based reporting series on HIV in the Carribbean called Heroes of HIV. In 2002, he produced "Deadlock: Russia's Forgotten War" for CNN Presents in collaboration with reporter Michael Gordon of The New York Times. The documentary won a 2002 CINE Golden Eagle Award. Since 1992 he has written and produced 45 documentaries broadcast on PBS covering a wide range of military and foreign policy topics. In his 15 years of experience as a video editor and videographer, he has produced award-winning documentaries on topics as diverse as child combatants in Sierra Leone, the Cuban military, and landmine survivors in Cambodia. He became Co-Director of Azimuth Media in 2001.