New Board Leaders Take Office At WAN-IFRA's Annual Meeting

On December 1, 2021, seven media executives were elected to the WAN-IFRA Supervisory Board: Mohamed Alayyan (Publisher & Chairman United Jordan Press, Jordan), Benedict B. Assorow (Managing Editor Catholic Standard, Ghana), Andy Budiman (CEO KG Media, Indonesia), Bartosz Hojka (Group CEO Agora, Poland), Nicolás Pérez Lapentti (CDO El Universo and President AEDEP, Ecuador), Hans Väre (Editor in Chief Sakala in Estonia), and Andrey Vdovychenko (Managing Director Burda Media, Ukraine).

At the same meeting, Fernando de Yarza Lopez-Madrazo (Chairman Henneo, Spain) has been re-elected WAN-IFRA President for a two-year mandate, together with 28 other current Supervisory Board members including Executive Board members Stig Ørskov, WAN-IFRA Vice President (CEO JP/Politikens Hus, Denmark) and Paul Verwilt, WAN-IFRA Treasurer (COO Mediahuis, Belgium).

These elections are announced at a time when WAN-IFRA is rallied by a growing number of new members. Since January 2021, 50 corporate members representing more than 220 publications and online media brands, alongside 200 individual members, have joined the World Association of News Publishers

WAN-IFRA Supervisory Board members re-elected on 1st December 2021 include:

Eugene Abov, Vice President GIPP, Russian Federation Alessandro Bompieri, Managing Director Rcs Mediagroup, Italy Oleksandr Chovhan, President RIA Media, Ukraine Hans Heinrich Coninx, Board Member Schweizer Medien, Switzerland Phillip Crawley, Publisher and Chief Executive Officer The Globe and Mail, Canada | Executive Board member WAN-IFRA Fernando de Yarza Lopez-Madrazo, President Henneo Media, Spain | President WAN-IFRA Daniel Dessein, President La Gaceta, Argentina Warren Fernandez, Editor-In-Chief SPH Media Ltd, Singapore | Chairman World Editors Forum Alexej Fulmek, CEO and Chairman of the Board Petit Press AS, President Slovak Print and Digital Media Association, Slovakia Sophie Gourmelen, General Manager Le Parisien, France Gerald Grünberger, Managing Director VÖZ – Verband Österreichischer Zeitungen, Austria | Chairman Association Directors Committee WAN-IFRA Vesa-Pekka Kangaskorpi, CEO and President Keskisuomalainen Oyj, Finland Tibor Kovács, Director Ringier Axel Springer, Hungary K N Shanth Kumar, Director The Printers (Mysore) Pvt. Ltd., India| Chair South Asia Committee WAN-IFRA Valdo Lehari jr., Publisher and CEO Reutlinger General-Anzeiger Verlags-GmbH & Co. KG, Germany | Executive Board member WAN-IFRA Pierre Louette, Chairman and CEO Groupe Les Echos – Le Parisien, France José Manuel Lozano, Managing Director 20minutos, Spain Markus Mair, Chairman of the Board Styria Media Group AG, Austria Stig Ørskov, CEO JP/Politikens Hus, Denmark | Vice President WAN-IFRA Miguel Otero Castillo, Presidente Editor C.A. Editora El Nacional, Venezuela Sandy Prieto-Romualdez, President and CEO The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippines | Chair APAC Committee WAN-IFRA | Executive Board member WAN-IFRA Stephen Rae, Publisher AML Intelligence, Ireland Sinha Ratnatunga, Director/Editor-in-Chief, The Sunday Times Colombo / Wijeya Newspapers Ltd, Sri Lanka Marcelo Rech, President ANJ (Associação Nacional de Jornais), Brazil | Executive Board member WAN-IFRA Mujo Selimovic, Publisher Oslobodjenje, Bosnia and Herzegovina George K. Shuang, Managing Director United Daily News, Taiwan Libuse Smuclerova, CEO & Chairman of the Board of Directors Czech News Center a.s., Czech Republic Cristina Soares, COO Público Comunicação Social SA, Portugal Paul Verwilt, COO Mediahuis, Belgium | Treasurer WAN-IFRA

The full list of members of the  Supervisory Board which has 68 members coming from 46 countries can be found under the following link: WAN-IFRA Supervisory Board

The next General Assembly of Members will be held on 17 June 2022.