MUMBAI: Journalists and television executives visiting Reed Midem's markets - including MipTV, Mipcom, Mipim, Midem, Milia, Mapic, Mipdoc and Mipcom Junior - will now be interacting with a new director press and public relations - Michael Williams. Williams will be overseeing corporate communications as well as press and PR operations for the above exhibitions.

42-year-old Williams joins the Paris-based Reed MIDEM from Vivendi Universal Net, where he was executive vice-president corporate communications, responsible for the communications strategy of Vivendi Universal's Internet activities.

Prior to working for Vivendi Universal, he spent 10 years as the Paris Bureau Chief of the international, entertainment trade newspaper Variety.

A British citizen, Williams has lived and worked in France for 20 years and holds a degree in Political Science from the University of York (UK).