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        Global Economics Class, University of California, Santa Barbara
        
 Steven is president of
		Educare Research inc, 
		a nonprofit organztion providing free learning resources to 
		international independent educators and students. He has a PhD in Education 
        with a specialty in transcultural learning, and conducts international multicultural
        research. He received a B.A. in Journalism and an M.A. in Business
        Communications. 
        Steven has taught MBA and
        undergraduate Global Management and
        Business Communications for the Cardean Learning Group, Ellis
        University, and Ellis College of New York Institute of Technology. He has taught
        courses in Marketing, Advertising, and Marketing Communications, Global
        Issues, and World Economic for the Language & Culture and ELS
        programs at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and courses in
        Marketing and Global Economics for Antioch University. 
        Steven has worked in
                        media,
                        international
                        management,
                        advertising,
                        public
                        relations, and
                        education for
                        more than twenty
                        years, including
                        positions in
                        Washington, DC;
                        Moscow, Russia;
                        and Kiev,
                        Ukraine.  
        Steven
        has been a television producer, a newspaper features writer and
        columnist, a radio newscaster and reporter, a weekly radio talk-show
        host, a television news anchor and an NBC affiliate news division
        manager. He directed a nationwide television and radio public
        information program in Kiev, Ukraine. He managed a Washington-based
        television news service, and served as bureau chief in its Moscow office
        during the final months of the Soviet Union in 1990-91. 
        Steven has worked with
        international media and clients including CBS, BBC, Krieble Institute,
        New York Stock Exchange, Transcom Communications, Hill & Knowlton, Gavin Anderson & Company, The PBN Company, East-West Films,
        Cardean University, and About/Primedia.  He has worked with
        social and economic reform programs including VISTA, Head Start, and the
        United States Agency for International Development. 
        Steven R. Van Hook is the
        founder of Worldwide Media
        Relations based  
        in Santa Barbara, and publishes the AboutPublicRelations,
        HowToMarketing,
        and the HowToSail
        webzines.
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