New members were elected to WAN-Ifra’s supervisory board when the association met on Sunday.

Mariam Mammen Mathew (Manorama Online, India) has been elected vice-president of WAN-Ifra. David Walmsley, (Globe and Mail, Canada) and Pia Rehnquist (Bonnier News, Sweden), join the executive board. Walmsley has also been confirmed as president of the World Editors Forum.

Mathew said she was deeply honoured and grateful: “The news media industry is being constantly disrupted by new technologies and it is our responsibility to uphold credibility at all times.”

Joining the supervisory board are Monicah Ndung'u (Nation Media Group, Kenya), Jan Svoboda (News Television TA3, representing the Slovak Print and Digital Media Association), Chan Yeng Kit (SPH Media, Singapore). Luciano Stulin (Ips Group, Germany), president of the DistriPress advisory board, and its vice president Raphaëlle Casta (7Days Media Services, Switzerland), will represent DistriPress within WAN-Ifra. Randi Øgrey (MBL , Norway), incoming chairperson of the WAN-Ifra Media Freedom Board, will represent the board within WAN-Ifra. Andreas Gierth (Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung, Germany) will represent the WAN-Ifra Printers Forum board as its newly elected president. François le Hodey (IPM Group, Belgium) and president of the European Newspapers Association will represent ENPA at the WAN-Ifra Supervisory Board.

Retiring directors are Maximo Garrido, Agnes Kalekye, Jean-Pierre de Kerraoul, Alexej Fulmek and Martha Ramos.

Pictured (from left): Mariam Mammen Mathew, Stig K. Ørskov, Ladina Heimgartrner, and Pia Rehnquist; (below) David Walmsley (Photo: Sobczyński Film)