Harry James Albright was the director of communications for the

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(FWCC) from 2008 to 2013, and editor of '' The Friend'' magazine from 1997 to 2004. He is also the co-owner of a training and communications consultancy.

Education

Albright was born in

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...

, Switzerland, the son of Leland S. Albright Jr., a Canadian diplomat, and Mary Albright. He attended the

International School of Geneva The International School of Geneva (in French: ''Ecole Internationale de Genève''), also known as "Ecolint" or "The International School", is a private, non-profit international school based in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 1924 in the servic ...

and

Pickering College Pickering College is an independent, co-educational school for children in grades from Junior Kindergarten through grade 12. It is located in Newmarket, Ontario, Newmarket, Ontario in Canada on a 17-hectare (42 acre) property on Bayview Avenue. The ...

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. He studied journalism at

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in Ottawa.

Career

He was a journalist at the '' Elmira Independent'' when it won Canada's most prestigious journalism prize, the

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, in 1990. The small Ontario newspaper was honoured for its blanket coverage of a prolonged legal battle over contamination of the Elmira–

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municipal water supply. The ''Elmira Independent'' was part of the North Waterloo Publishing group, and Albright also worked on other group titles. He was production manager for the ''Elora Sentinel'' and ''Fergus Thistle'', and news editor of the agricultural newspaper ''The Farmgate''. With his background in agricultural journalism, Albright moved to the UK in 1993 to become the

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for the National Farmers Union in the

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region,Glenda Cooper (15 February 1996)
"Piglet rustlers feed on bacon shortage"
''The Independent'' managing the regional response to the BSE crisis that affected the UK in the mid-1990s.

''The Friend'' and FWCC

In 1997, Albright became editor of ''The Friend'', based in London, England, and later communications director for FWCC, the worldwide consultative body for Quakers. He continues as a consultant to various Quaker and other organizations.

Personal life

Albright is married to Beth Peakall and they have two children.

References

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