Kylie Davis, Patrick Daniel, Wong Chun Wai, Sanjay Gupta and TN Ninan are among eight editors elected yesterday to the board of the World Editors Forum.

The WAN-Ifra organisation for senior newsroom personnel met on Sunday on the eve of its annual gathering in Kiev, Ukraine.

Elected were:

- Sanjay Gupta, editor-in-chief of the Hindi language Dainik Jagran, the most read daily in India, and chief executive of its parent company, Jagran Prakashan. The paper’s 37 editions across 11 states are read by some 55 million people daily.



- Markku Mantila, who has been editor of Kaleva in the Finnish city of Oulu since 2009 and was a winner of a Finnish grand prize for journalism last year.



- Lisa MacLeod, assistant editor of the Financial Times. She joined the newspaper in 2003 and has worked on the company’s strategic newsroom integration and reorganisation projects.



- TN Ninan, editorial director of the Business Standard in India, and currently president of the Editors Guild of India. He has headed a number of Indian business publications, bringing about substantial change and achieving rapid growth at all of them.



- Joseph Odindo, group editorial director of the Nation Media Group in Kenya and one of Africa’s leading journalists. He oversees all editorial operations of the group, which includes 10 newspapers, two television stations, three radio stations and websites in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.



- Wong Chun Wai, executive director and group chief editor of The Star, Malaysia’s leading English language daily. He is also the current chairman of the Asia News Network, the largest Asian umbrella group of more than 21 news media organisation, and sits on the country’s Anti Corruption Commission.



- Patrick Daniel, editor-in-chief of the English and Malay Newspaper Division of Singapore Press Holdings. He is a director of SPH Magazines, SPH UnionWorks and Tamil Marasu, and also chairs two SPH subsidiaries – Straits Times Press and Shareinvestor.com Holdings. He is a graduate of University College, Oxford, and has a masters degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.



- Kylie Davis, the national real estate editor at News Limited in Australia and one of the country’s most highly regarded women in media. Ms Davis is a strong proponent of the value of hyperlocal journalism. She has had a successful career at a variety of Australian media companies.



The WEF Board currently has 21 members. For more information on the organisation, consult http://www.worldeditorsforum.org



More than 1000 newspaper publishers, CEOs, chief editors, managing directors and other senior newspaper executives are gathering in Kiev for the Congress and Forum, which begins Monday.

You can follow the events at http://www.wan-ifra.org/kiev2012 or on Twitter with #wnc12 and #wef12.