Our Regional Advisors

Latin America Regional Committee

Rosental Alves
Director
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas University of Texas, United States

Jaime Abello Banfi
Director General
FNPI-Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, Colombia

M. Teresa Calkins
Media Management Consultant
MTConsulting, Inc., United States
Knight International Journalism Fellow, 2006

Cristiana Chamorro
Director
Violeta Chamorro Foundation, Nicaragua

Rossana Fuentes
Editor, Editorial page
El Universal, Mexico

Jesse Hardman
Freelance reporter/Media trainer, United States
Knight International Journalism Fellow, 2007

Bob Ortega
Freelance media trainer, Canada
Knight International Journalism Fellow, 2000

Middle East and North Africa Regional Committee

Wael Abbas
Citizen journalist, Egypt
Knight International Journalism Award recipient, 2007

Frances Abouzeid
Chief of Party
AED Jordan Civil Society Program, Jordan

Abdulaziz Al-Horr
Director of Aljazeera Media Training & Development Center
Aljazeera Satellite Network, Qatar

Nadia Al-Saqaf
Editor
Yemen Times, Yemen

Nadia El-Awady
Journalist and Media Consultant
President, World Federation of Science Journalists, Egypt

Rouba El Helou
Reporter
Al-akhbar newspaper, Lebanon

Said Essoulami
Executive Director
Centre for Media Freedom-MENA, Morocco

Daoud Kuttab
Founder
AmmanNet, Al Quds University, Jordan/Palestine

Mariam Sami
Freelance Journalist/Journalism Trainer, Egypt
Knight International Journalism Fellow, 2008

Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Committee

Gabriel Baglo
Director
International Federation of Journalists-Africa, Senegal

Michelle Betz
Consultant
Betz Media Consulting, United States
Knight International Journalism Fellow, 2005

Akin Jimoh
Director
Development Communications Network, Nigeria

Kaitira Kandjii
Regional Director
Media Institute of Southern Africa, Namibia

Francis Mdlongwa
Director
Media Management Institute
Rhodes University, South Africa

Peter Mwesige
Managing Partner
PM Communications, Uganda

Lawrence Randall
Executive Director
Liberia Media Center, Liberia

Karen Rothmyer
Independent media consultant, Kenya
Knight International Journalism Fellow, 2007

Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Committee

Jeremy Drucker
Executive Director
Transitions Online, Czech Republic

Lyudmyla Gumenyuk
Executive Director
Media Reform Center, Ukraine

Maia Mikashavidze
Dean
Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, Georgia

Ann Olson
Media trainer
Knight International Journalism Fellow, 1997 and 2002

Sándor Orbán
Executive Director
South East European Network for Professionalization of Media, Hungary

Aaron Presnall
Director of Studies: Political Economy
Jefferson Institute, Serbia

Asia and the Pacific Regional Committee

Premesh Chandran
Owner
Malaysiakini.com, Malaysia

Michelle Foster
Independent media management trainer, United States
Knight International Journalism Fellow, 2004

Jacqueline Frank
Documentary producer, United States
Knight International Journalism Fellow, 2006

Jeff Hodson
Media Trainer and Consultant, Southeast Asia
Knight International Journalism Fellow, 2000 and 2003

Manjeet Kripalani
India bureau chief
BusinessWeek, India

Malou Mangahas
Co-founder, Executive Director
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, Philippines

Hu Shuli
Editor
Caijing magazine, China

Sasa Vucinic
Managing Director
Media Development Loan Fund, United States

Li Xiguang
Dean
School of Communications
Quinghua University, China

At-large Committee

Adam Clayton Powell
Vice Provost for Globalization
University of Southern California, United States

Benjamín Fernández
Knight International Journalism Fellow, 2008

Yasha Lange
Managing Partner
MediaWorks, Netherlands

Amadou Mahtar Ba
President
AllAfrica.com, United States

Bill Orme
UN Consultant, Media Development and Strategic Communications
United Nations, United States

A.S. Panneerselvan
Executive Director
Panos South Asia, India

Paul Radu
Co-founder
Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism, Romania
Knight International Journalism Fellow, 2008
Knight International Journalism Award recipient, 2004

Yves Renard
International Manager
Ecole Supérieure de Journalism de Lille (ESJ - Lille), France

Rana Sabbagh-Gargour
Executive Director
Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), Jordan

Sree Sreenivasan
Dean of students/New Media professor
Graduate School of Journalism
Columbia University, United States

Jo Weir
Programme Director, Journalism Training
Thomson-Reuters Foundation, United Kingdom