| Roel OOSTRA | Leeuwarden (NL), 1946 MO-1 History, MO-A English (Educational BA's) |
| 1970 - 1975 | Editor Foreign Affairs Dept. of Amsterdam daily "Het Parool" |
| 1973 - 1975 | Editor/Presenter of current affairs weekly progr. NOS/Educational TV/ |
| 1975 - 1987 | Director-editor and presenter of current affairs weekly "Here and Now" NCRV/Holland specialist on international affairs. Produced over 100 reports and 20 documentaries |
| 1988 - 1990 | Director Stichting Vluchteling/The Hague - Int. Aid to Refugees, aff. with UNHCR/Geneva |
| 1990 - present | Director Cresset Consultants Ltd. - audiovisual consultancy |
| Director Cresset Communications Ltd. - Television production company | |
| Director "Imago Historica" Foundation | |
| producer/director of: | "Many Voices, One World" - 200x6min. series on storytelling worldwide.(1990 - 1994) |
| "Traces" - 7x28min. series on masters of Jewish art. (1991) | |
| "History's Mysteries" 13x45min./13x52min series on historical mysteries and enigma's (1994 - 1998) | |
| "Sinister Seas" 2x52min. mini-series on piracy, crime and fraud on the high seas | |
| "Myths of Mankind" 15x52min. - series on mankinds myths and mysticisms. (2000 - 2008) | |
| Several separate 52-min. documentaries produced for the international market. a.o.. | |
| . "Peace with Pain" (1991). Killing Fields hero Dith Pran's return to Cambodia in the wake of Pol Pot | |
| . "The Return" (1992), following Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees on their return after war. | |
| . "A Boy's Dream gone Haywire" (1993), the building of a replica of historical VOC-ship "Batavia" | |
| . "Après nous le Deluge" (1994), Dutch painter Rob Scholte creating the mural of the century in Japan | |
| . "Batavia- The second Maiden Voyage" (2001), VOC-merchantsman sails back to Australia where it sank 375 years ago. | |
| . "Clipper Stad Amsterdam" (2001), the rebirth of a historical clipper. | |
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