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Since 4 June 2008, Mr Xavier Vidal-Folch, El Pais, Spain, has been the WEF President (see below).

Since 4 June 2008,  Mr Harald Stanghelle, Aftenposten, Norway, has been the WEF Vice-President (see below).

Mr Bertrand Pecquerie is the WEF Director since October 2003.

The Committee currently has the following members (last update in April 2010):

Marcelo_Rech.jpgBRAZIL    Mr Marcelo Rech
Editorial Director, RBS newspapers

Marcelo Rech, 48, is based in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. He is the Editorial Director of the eight RBS newspapers, whith a combined circulation of 508,000 copies. He is also editor of Zero Hora (178,000) and the director of the editorial comittee of the Brazilian Newspaper Association.
Before becoming editor-in-chief of Zero hora, in 1993, Rech was a reporter, specialized in international affairs.


gallo.jpgCZECH REPUBLIC    Mr Roman Gallo
CEO of PPF Media

Roman has lead the Naseadresa and FUTUROOM project which consists of hyperlocal weeklies and websites, overseen by a multimedia news lab in Prague. He started his career as a reporter and has directed projects at Economia, NetCentrum and Vltava-Labe-Press, as well as teaching at Charles University of Prague for five years.

 

 
Ed Greenspon_1.jpgCANADA     Mr Ed Greenspon
Consultant

Edward Greenspon was Editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail from 2002 to 2009. He has an honours degree in journalism and political science from Carleton University and was a Commonwealth Scholar at the London School of Economics, earning a masters degree in politics and government with distinction in 1985. Since joining The Globe and Mail in 1986, he has been a business reporter, European Correspondent, Managing Editor Report on Business, Executive News Editor, Founding Editor of globeandmail.com, and Ottawa Bureau Chief. He is co-author of Double Vision, The Inside Story of the Liberals in Power and Searching for Certainty:  Inside the New Canadian Mindset.

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DENMARK     Mr Erik Bjerager
Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director; Kristeligt Dagblad

Erik Bjerager, born 1958, is editor-in-chief and managing director of the Danish national daily, Kristeligt Dagblad. He is a graduate from the Danish School of Journalism and holds an MA from The American University, Washington, D.C. Before taking his current post in 1994, Mr. Bjerager worked as a journalist in Denmark and abroad.


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GERMANY     Mr Wolfgang Krach
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Süddeutsche Zeitung


 

 

S7_Raju_Narisetti.jpgINDIA     Mr Raju Narisetti
Managing Editor, Washington Post

Before joigning The Washington Post in 2008, Raju Narisetti was Editor of Mint, a national business newspaper and website (www.livemint.com) published by HT Media Ltd. in with an exclusive content partnership with News Corp's The Wall Street Journal. Prior to conceiving and launching Mint in February 2007, Raju, a 13-year veteran of The Wall Street Journal, was Editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe as well as a Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal in the U.S., where he also held overall responsibility for European and Middle East/Africa coverage for all editions of WSJ. Raju was named as a Young Global Leader in 2007 by the World Economic Forum and is on the board of Oxfam India.


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FINLAND   Ms Reetta Merilainen
Chief Editor, Helsingin Sanomat

 

 

S7_gianni_valenti.jpgITALY    Mr Gianni Valenti
Vice-Director, Gazzetta dello Sport

Gianni Valenti, 45 years old, vice-director of the Gazzetta dello Sport. Together with  this newspaper's director (Carlo Verdelli), he was the chief of the transformation project of the Gazzeta in full color tabloid. Previously, he worked 17 years for the Corriere della Sera, where he covered the role of chief editor of Italian and international news. Also, he was one of the key figures (in  2005) for  the first transformation project of the Corriere della Sera in the full color format. 


 

salah.jpgMOROCCO     Mrs Nadia Salah
Editor, L'Economiste

Nadia SALAH is the administrator of Ecomedia Group (2 daily newspapers, a radio station, 2 news  magazines, one web site and professional books publishing). She is also chief editor of the Group's main publication: "L'Economiste". After studying economics and political science in Grenoble (France), she entered the Moroccan press: L'Opinion ( 10 years), then "La Vie Economique" (1 year), before creating the Ecomedia Group in 1991.



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NETHERLANDS   Mr Marcel van Lingen
Editor-in-Chief, Netherlands Press Association


 

 
Azubuike_Ishiekwene.JPGNIGERIA      Mr Azubuike Ishiekwene
Executive Director, Punch Nigeria

He holds a Masters degree in Public Administration and International Affairs from the University of Lagos and a B.Sc in Mass Communications. Ishiekwene, (or Azu, as he is fondly called) is a member of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, the Nigerian Union of Journalists, and lectures part time at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism. Azu joined PUNCH in 1989 and has held various positions including investigative reporter, features writer, features editor, and deputy editor of Toplife magazine (a PUNCH publication). He was Editor of the company's flagship daily THE PUNCH between 2002 and 2006, when he was appointed Executive Director, Publications.

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NORWAY   Mr Harald Stanghelle
Political Editor, Aftenposten

 


Miro_Quesada_wef.jpgPERU     Mr Alejandro Miro Quesada
Group Editor-in-Chief, Cosas
 
He is a Lawyer and journalist, born in Lima, Perú on September 24, 1944.  Miro Quesada is now the chief editor of El Comercio, Lima, where he began as a sports writer in 1965.  He has been a member of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) Board of Directors since 1986 and its President from 2004-2005. He is also a WEF board member since 2003. 

 

 


imtiaz_alam1.gifPAKISTAN    Mr Imtiaz Alam
General Secretary, South Asian Free Media Association
 

 

 


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RUSSIA     Mr Vladimir Sungorkin
Editor-in-Chief and General Director, Komsomolskaya Pravda

 


 


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SOUTH AFRICA     Mrs. Ferial Haffajee
Editor-in-Chief, Mail & Guardian

Ferial Haffajee is the editor-in-chief of City Press, a leading national Sunday newspaper, a post she assumed in July 2009. Previously, she was editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian, the country's leading investigative weekly newspaper. In 2008, she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. She sits on the board of the International Women's Media Foundation and GenderLinks, and is an alumnus of the Africa Leadership Initiative.

 

 

Eliz_back.jpgSWEDEN    Mrs. Elisabeth Bäck
Former Editor-in-Chief, Vestmanlands Läns Tidnings (vlt)

 

 


Xavier_Vidal_Foch.pngSPAIN     Mr Xavier Vidal-Folch
President, World Editors Forum
Deputy Editor, El País


Xavier Vidal-Folch de Balanzo is the Deputy Director of Spanish daily newspaper El Pais. He has been with the paper since 1987, spending one year as Chief Editor and five as Brussels Bureau Chief. Xavier received a Bachelor's degrees in law, journalism, and contemporary history and began his career as a national news writer for El Diario de Mallorca. After that, he served as Economy Editor for El Periodico de Catalunya followed by El Pais Barcelona. He has received several journalism awards, including the Joan Sardá Dexeus award in 1999 for his work in spreading economic information.


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TURKEY     Mr Ertugrul Ozkök
Consulting Editor, Dogan Media Group

Former Director and Editor-in-Chief, Hürriyet Gazetesi



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UNITED KINGDOM    Mr George Brock
Editor, The Times (Saturday edition)

Professor and Head of Journalism, City University, London. Former president of the World Editors Forum, George Brock is also former Saturday Editor of The Times. He has been the paper's Managing Editor, Foreign Editor and Editor of the Op-Ed page as well as bureau chief in Brussels in the early 1990s. He is the co-author of two books and is a regular speaker and broadcaster.

 

 
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UNITED STATES     Ms Gloria Brown Anderson
Vice President, International and Editorial Development, The New York Times
 



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UNITED STATES     Mr Andrew Nachison
President and Co-Founder at iFOCOS - the Institute for the Connected Society
 

 



alsakkaf_small.jpgYEMEN    Mrs Nadia Al-Sakkaf
Editor in Chief, Yemen Times

Nadia has been working in the media since July 2000 when she joined the Yemen Times as a translator and reporter. After completing her higher studies in Management Information Systems in September 2002 Nadia continued working in the Yemen Times as part time while working as a Systems Analyst at the Arab Experts Center for Consultancy and Systems. Nadia al-Sakkaf became chief editor of the Yemen Times in March 2005. Nadia is a member of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate and the International Journalists Syndicate and was a student member of Amnesty International while studying in the UK.




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