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Our Regional Advisors

 

Latin America Regional Committee

 

Middle East and North Africa 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

 

 

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

 

 

Eastern Europe and Central Asia 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

 

 

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

 

 

At-large 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


 

  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. Panneersaivan
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

 

Knight international is a program of:

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) administers the Knight International Journalism Fellowships. ICFJ, a non-profit, professional organization, promotes quality journalism worldwide in the belief that independent, vigorous media are crucial in improving the human condition. Over the past 25 years, ICFJ has worked directly with more than 55,000 journalists from 176 countries. Aiming to raise the standards of journalism, ICFJ offers hands-on training workshops, seminars, fellowships and international exchanges to reporters and media managers around the globe.

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 The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is the Knight International Journalism Fellowships program's main funder. The foundation promotes excellence in journalism worldwide and invests in the vitality of 26 U.S. communities. Knight Foundation is among the nation's largest independent grant-making organizations with newspaper origins. It has provided financial support for the fellowships since their inception in 1993.