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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