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Georges Leclère Biography

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 Global Warming and its effects and consequences. Starting with a format game show entitled Go for Green! distributed internationally by Distraction from Montreal, Canada and continuing with a Reality show and several fictions, all related to the fight against Global Warming.
Through LGMA, Leclere also advises international companies on worldwide media ranging from classic television events to future visual media on any platform. He is Executive Producer of a Canadian show, Views of the World, on the Vox Channel, group Videotron. And sits on the Board of Clovys-TV a new music start-up channel based in Montreal, Canada.
Among its recent clients and endeavors, LGMA was appointed, in October 2008, Director of the Banff World Television Festival Program Competition and its Awards ceremonies. Georges is also advisor for the Foundation for International Understanding, an initiative of the US Congress, Ambassador for the Rose d’Or Festival and consultant for several companies from the Monaco Media Forum to the Cousteau Awards and the Seoul Drama Awards, The Prix Galien and The Elie Wiesel Foundation.
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 Academy, 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 show.
Georges Leclere began his broadcasting career in Lebanon in 1968, as a producer and on-air personality for French-speaking Channels in Beirut. He anchored the 1968 Mexico Olympics for Beirut's then existent Francophone Channel 11, (Today, Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation LBC), and started sports news programs on Beirut 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, on Antenne 2 before it became France-Televisions. Head of the Sciences & Technology News department, he extensively reported on scientific and technological subjects' coverage, which included 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 a producer for TF1 and FR3, involved in international co-productions, including one 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, (Now France 5 in the France-Televisions group), 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 anchored the first ever TV show live for 10 days from the Paris Air Show in 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, 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 majoring 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 Larchmont, New York with his wife, the renowned author Alexandra Leclere. They have four children.
And two grand Children.
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