# 2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY

## 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.