ATHENS, Ohio -- Charles Fox, a global communications strategist and consultant with 30 years of experience in the film industry, has been named director of the Ohio University School of Film, effective July 1, College of Fine Arts Dean Raymond Tymas-Jones announced.

"Fox comes to Ohio University with an extraordinary background in the film industry," Tymas-Jones said. "Given the breadth of his experience he will be an asset to the community as an advocate for film as an important and relevant discipline in the 21st Century."

Fox was director of the Maryland Film Commission from 1990 to 1993, where he created the Warner Brothers mid-Atlantic TV Writers Project and the Multi-Cultural Filmmakers Think Tank. The projects made Hollywood's top talent accessible to film and media college students in the mid-Atlantic region. He served as director of WORLDNET Television, a global satellite television system, from 1993 to 1997.

He also taught film and communications at American University, Morgan State University and Baltimore Community College.

Fox received a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University.