Erik Bjerager, Kristeligt Dagblad, Denmark, was unanimously elected
President of the World Editors Forum (WEF) on 14 February 2011 by the
WEF Board for a two year mandate (2011 - 2013). The same day, WEF Board
members also elected unanimously the Vice-President, Marcel van Lingen,
GPD, Netherlands Press Association, for a period of two years.
The WEF Board currently has the following members (last update on 4 April 2011):
President
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.
Vice President

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

BRAZIL Mr Marcelo Rech
Editorial Director, RBS newspapers
Marcelo Rech, 51, is the first general director for Product in RBS Group, one of the leading media groups in Brazil. With HQ in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, the group owns 18 TV stations, 2 community TV stations, 1 rural channel, 25 radio stations, 8 newspapers and 4 internet portals, among other media business.
Some of Rech's responsabilities are the development of new projects in conventional and new media, the connection between the medias and vehicles, as well the coordination and supervision of editorial operations in RBS.
Marcelo Rech was a former reporter, specialized in internal and international conflicts. In 1993, he became managing editor of Zero Hora, the main newspaper of RBS and one of its flagships. Between 1997 and 2008 ,he was the editor of Zero Hora and the other seven newspapers of the group. Since 2008, he is in charge of media operations in four media platforms, which involves about 1,100 journalists and 800 people from different sectors and regions.
Marcelo Rech is also the present coordinator of the editorial committee of the Brazilian Newspaper Association.

FINLAND Ms
Reetta Merilainen
Chief Editor, Helsingin Sanomat

FRANCE Mr François Dufour, L'Actu

GERMANY Mr Wolfgang Krach
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Süddeutsche Zeitung
INDIA 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.
ITALY 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.
MOROCCO 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.

NORWAY Mr Harald Stanghelle
Political Editor, Aftenposten
PAKISTAN Mr Imtiaz Alam
General
Secretary, South Asian Free Media Association

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

SOUTH AFRICA Mrs. Ferial Haffajee
Editor-in-Chief, City Press
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

TURKEY Mr Ertugrul Ozkök
Consulting Editor, Dogan Media Group
Former Director and Editor-in-Chief, Hürriyet Gazetesi

UNITED KINGDOM Mr George Brock
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.

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

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