2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The 2012-2016 Steering Committee was elected at the General Assembly of the Global Forum for Media Development in Makhanda/Grahamstown, South Africa in 2012.

Executive Committee

• Chairperson: Leon Willems, FreePress Unlimited (Netherlands)

• Vice-chairperson: A.S. Panneerselvan, Panos South Asia (India)

• Treasurer: Amie Joof, FAMEDEV (Senegal)

• Chairman Emeritus: David Hoffman, Internews Network (USA)

Africa

• FAMEDEV (Senegal) - Amie Joof

• African Media Initiative (South Africa) - Jeanette Minnie

• Alternate: Media Institute for Southern Africa (Zimbabwe) -

  Luckson Chipare

Asia

• Panos South Asia (India) - A.S. Panneerselvan

• Indonesian Press Council (Indonesia) - Bambang Harymurti

• Alternate: Hong Kong University (China) - Ying Chan

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Fundación Gabriel García Márquez para el Nuevo Periodismo (FNPI) / (now Fundación Gabo) (Colombia) - Jaime Abello Banfi

• Agencia de Noticias dos Direitos da Infancia (ANDI) (Brazil) - Veet Vivarta

• Alternate: Association Caribbean Media Workers (Trinidad and Tobago) - Wesley Gibbings

Eurasia

• Association Independent Broadcasters (Ukraine) - Katerina Myasnykova

• Albanian Media Institute (Albania) - Remzi Lani

• Alternate: South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (Hungary) - Sandor Orban

International Caucus

• BBC Media Action (United Kingdom) - James Deane

• International Media Support (Denmark) - Jesper Hojberg

• International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (United States) - Joyce Barnathan

• FreePress Unlimited (Netherlands) - Leon Willems

• Alternate: Internews (United States) - Jeanne Bourgault

• Alternate: DW Akademie (Germany) - Patrick Leusch,

Middle East/North Africa

• GFMD had no active members in this region at the time of the 2012 Global Forum.