Current members
GFMD Steering Committee members (2021-2025)
The 2021-2025 Steering Committee was elected at the Global Forum for Media Development - General Assembly - Tirana, Albania on 30 September 2021.
Executive Committee
Chairperson
Zoe Titus, Director, Namibia Media Trust
Deputy Chairperson:
Jan Lublinski, Head of Department, Policy and Learning, Deutsche Welle Akademie
Treasurer
Ruth Kronenburg, Director of Operations, FreePress Unlimited
Asia, Pacific and Oceania (2 members)
Owais Aslam Ali, Secretary-General, Pakistan Press Foundation
Prue Clarke, Co-founder, Executive Director, Editor, New Narratives
Eastern Europe, the Caucuses, and Central Asia (2 members)
Drew Sullivan, Co-founder and Publisher, Journalism Development Network/OCCRP
Milka Domanovic, Regional Director, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network - BIRN (Milka replaced Marija Ristic, the former Regional Director of BIRN, in 2023)
Europe (Western, Central, Northern, and Southern) (1 member)
Lars Boering, Director, European Journalism Centre - EJC
Latin America and the Caribbean (2 members)
Mijal Iastrebner, Co-founder and Managing Director, SembraMedia
Wesley Gibbings, Executive Member, Association of Caribbean Media Workers
Middle East and North Africa (2 members)
Ayman Mhanna, Executive Director, Samir Kassir Foundation - SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom
Roula Mikhael, Executive Director, Maharat Foundation
North America (1 member)
Sharon Moshavi, President, International Center for Journalists - ICFJ
Sub-Saharan Africa (2 members)
Vusumuzi Sifile, Executive Director, Panos Institute Southern Africa
Zoe Titus, Director, Namibia Media Trust
Global (3 members)
Caroline Vuillemin, General Director, Fondation Hirondelle
Jan Lublinski, Head of Department, Policy and Learning, Deutsche Welle Akademie
Ruth Kronenburg, Director of Operations, FreePress Unlimited
Topical & policy (2 members)
Tabani Moyo, Acting Regional Director, Media Institute of Southern Africa - MISA
Toby Mendel, Executive Director, Centre for Law and Democracy
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