Will WhitehornWill Whitehorn
President and Chairman

Will Whitehorn was appointed the President of Internews Europe in July 2011. He is also the Chairman of the Loewy Group and of Next Fifteen Communications. Will sits on the British Science and Technology Facilities Council, the government funding body for scientific research in the UK. During his career, he spent more than 20 years working for the Virgin group. For a number of years he was President of Virgin Galactic, where he took the project from being the nascent dream of his boss, Sir Richard Branson, to an operation with real spacecraft, test flights and a spaceport. Will Whitehorn also served as the Virgin Group's Brand Development & Corporate Affairs Director. Will has often been seen as Richard Branson's right-hand man; in his earlier career as a search-and-rescue helicopter crewman in the North Sea, Will even had to pluck Richard out of danger after he became caught up in the Algerian civil war. Back on terra firma, Will has worked in a series of financial institutions, including a spell as Market Intelligence Officer at TSB Group.

 
Vidhi TambiahVidhi Tambiah
Treasurer

Vidhi Tambiah joined Internews Europe’s Board in January 2012 and took over the role of Treasurer. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Geneva based World Microfinance Forum since 2009. Prior to that, Tambiah spent almost 20 years as an investment professional, originally with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and latterly joining the World Economic Forum in Geneva where he helped create the Centre for Strategic Insight and contributed to the Annual Meeting in Davos.

 
Jeanne GirardotJeanne Girardot
General Secretary

Jeanne Girardot has an extensive background in public relations and communications and is currently the Internews International Delegate to UNESCO. She also serves as a Technical Advisor on communication to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Versailles and is a member of the Women and a Culture of Peace Commission of UNESCO. Girardot teaches Institutional Communication at Versailles University. Her experience ranges from supporting the communications strategy of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the French Red Cross to working for l’Oreal as their Head of Advertising for Public products.

 
Manana A. AslamazyanManana A. Aslamazyan

Manana Aslamazyan is a former Executive Director of Internews Europe (2008-2011) and a much respected international media expert. Aslamazyan participated in the launch of Russia’s first freedom of speech organization in 1991, the Glasnost Defense Foundation (GDF). In 1992, Aslamazyan became Internews Network's first foreign staff person and by 1994, was managing the Russian operation. Aslamazyan has served as an expert to the Russian Duma Committee on Information Policy, and from 2000 to 2004, she was one of three representatives of civil society on the Federal Competition Commission of Ministry of Press, TV Broadcasting and Mass Media. She is also a board member of the prestigious Academy of Russian Television and several Russian non-profit organizations. 

 
Jean-Maxence GranierJean-Maxence Granier

Jean-Maxence Granier is the owner and Associate Director of Think-out, a research and consulting company specialising in media and digital change. In 2002, he also created Iconoclast, a consultancy and research organisation specialising in media. Granier has been a Modern Literature tutor for more 30 years and teaches media semiotics at the communication school CELSA and in Limoges University. 

 
Martin HallqvistMartin Hallqvist

Martin Hallqvist is a retired Swedish Ambassador.  During his diplomatic career, he served as a spokesman for the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and as a diplomat in Moscow, Tokyo, New York (Swedish UN Mission), Helsinki and as the Ambassador of Sweden to Ukraine. Alongside Internews Europe, he is a board Member of the Center for European Research, Lund University. 

 
David HoffmanDavid Hoffman

David Hoffman is the Founder and CEO of Internews Europe’s sister organisation Internews Network. Hoffman has written widely about media and democracy, the Internet, and the importance of supporting pluralistic, local media around the world. Hoffman was a founder of and serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Global Forum for Media Development. Hoffman was Project Director of the Emmy-award winning television series Capital to Capital in 1987-1990, produced in association with ABC News and Soviet State Television, and was Project Director for Internews’ broadcasts of the proceedings of the War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, for which Internews was awarded the European Commission’s ECHO Award for Broadcast Commitment in 1996. From 1980-1982 Hoffman was the Editor of Evolutionary Blues, a journal of political thought on international conflict, the threat of nuclear war, and US-Soviet relations.

 
Oleg KatsievOleg Katsiev

Oleg Katsiev is currently Internews Network’s Regional Manager for Central Asia. Previously, Katsiev had managed Internews projects in Kazakhstan. Before joining Internews, Katsiev had a distinguished career as a TV journalist. He was Chief Editor of KTK, the first private TV station in Almaty. Prior to that he worked as a journalist, director of news, and chief director of TV production for Kazakh State Television. Katsiev has served in the past as president of Internews International, an association of media support NGOs from around the world. He has been an active member of the Academy of Journalists in Kazakhstan since 2001. Katsiev was trained as a professional journalist at the Journalism Department at Leningrad State University and at Oklahoma State University. 

 
Aidan WhiteAidan White

Aidan White is an international consultant on press rights and journalistic ethics. Aidan served as the General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) for 25 years, which he joined from The Guardian newspaper in 1987. He has worked as a reporter, feature writer, sub-editor, and editorial manager for leading regional and national newspapers in Britain.

 
Sebastian WinklerSebastian Winkler

Sebastian Winkler is a sustainability advisor to the multinational corporate sector, specialising in biodiversity projection. He is a former Senior Advisor on European Policy to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Head of the Countdown 2010 Secretariat. He has worked for the World Food Program's Office of Evaluation and UNEP.