Current members
GFMD Steering Committee members (2021-2025)
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
Owais Aslam Ali, Secretary-General, Pakistan Press Foundation
Prue Clarke, Co-founder, Executive Director, Editor, New Narratives
Eastern Europe, the Caucuses, and Central Asia
Drew Sullivan, Co-founder and Publisher, Journalism Development Network/OCCRP
Milka Domanovic, Regional Director, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network - BIRN
Europe (Western, Central, Northern, and Southern)
Lars Boering, Director, European Journalism Centre - EJC
Latin America and the Caribbean
María Eugenia Álvarez, General Manager, SembraMedia
Wesley Gibbings, Executive Member, Association of Caribbean Media Workers
Middle East and North Africa
Ayman Mhanna, Executive Director, Samir Kassir Foundation - SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom
Roula Mikhael, Executive Director, Maharat Foundation
North America
Sharon Moshavi, President, International Center for Journalists - ICFJ
Sub-Saharan Africa
Vusumuzi Sifile, Executive Director, Panos Institute Southern Africa
Zoe Titus, Director, Namibia Media Trust
Global
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
Tabani Moyo, Acting Regional Director, Media Institute of Southern Africa - MISA
Toby Mendel, Executive Director, Centre for Law and Democracy
2025-2029
Africa - (Central, Eastern, Southern, Western)
Catherine Gicheru, Founder, Africa Women Journalism Project (Kenya)
Zoe Titus, Director, Namibia Media Trust (Namibia)
Asia, Pacific and Oceania
Laxman Datt Pant, Executive Director, Media Action Nepal (Nepal)
Nasr ul Hadi, Founder and Executive Director, PROTO (India)
Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
Milka Domanovic, Regional Director, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network - BIRN (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Lina Kushch, First Secretary, National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (Ukraine)
Europe (Western, Central, Northern, and Southern)
Lars Boering, Director, European Journalism Centre - EJC (Netherlands)
Latin America and the Caribbean
Adriana Garcia, Executive Secretary, Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism - Abraji - (Brazil)
Kiran Maharaj, President and Co-Founder, Media Institute of the Caribbean (Jamaica / Trinidad & Tobago)
Middle East and North Africa
Rawan Damen, Director General, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism -ARIJ (Jordan)
Shireen Al Khatib, Acting Director, Palestinian Center for Development & Media Freedoms - MADA (Palestine)
North America
Courtney Radsch, Director, Center for Journalism and Liberty (USA)
Global
Caroline Vuillemin, General Director, Fondation Hirondelle
Quinn McKew, Executive Director, ARTICLE 19 (UK)
Simon Bishop, CEO, BBC Media Action (UK)
Topical & policy
Angie Holan, Director, International Fact-Checking Network (USA)
Toby Mendel Executive Director, Centre for Law and Democracy (Canada)
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