Pete is responsible for PA’s editorial content across all formats. He also leads the continuing transformation of the agency to a digital-focused, multi-platform business. Pete joined PA from MSN in 2015, after three years leading its 70-strong editorial team. Before that, he spent 15 years at the BBC in a number of senior editorial roles including, Head of Editorial Development, Head of News Interactive, Editor of the BBC News website and launch Editor of the BBC Sport website.

Wesley Gibbings is a media trainer, journalist and press freedom advocate who has been in the business for over 30 years. He has trained journalists throughout the Caribbean and in Fiji and has been a part of free expression activities in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and South-East Asia. He currently leads the ACM and is on the Board of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) and Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD). Gibbings has written and presented numerous conference papers in Europe, the USA, Latin America, Africa and the South Pacific on journalism in the Caribbean and has co-authored two journalism manuals on coverage of elections and covering climate change. He is also a published poet with four collections to his name. He is 2017’s Winner of the National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) 2017 Percy Qoboza Award.

Nic Newman is Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism where he writes on the future of digital media. He is lead author of the Digital News Report the world's biggest and most authoritative survey of changing news consumption as well as its annual trends report. Nic was a founding member of the BBC News Website, leading international coverage as World Editor (1997-2001). As Head of Product Development and then Future Media Controller for BBC News (2001-10), he helped introduce innovations such as blogs, podcasting and on-demand video. He works on digital, product and engagement strategies for a wide range of media companies across Europe.

Mercedes Vigon, Ph.D., Associate Director of the International Media Center, and Associate Professor, is a native of Spain. She trained journalists in Mexico, Nicaragua and Paraguay and also worked as a TV news director for Net Financial News. She was an executive producer and international writer for CBS Telenoticias and a journalist with UPI. She is fluent in Spanish, French and English.

From 1982 to 1996, Jim Clancy was a CNN International Correspondent in the Beirut, Frankfurt, Rome and London bureaus. During this time, he won the George Polk Award for his reporting on the genocide in Rwanda, the DuPont-Columbia Award for coverage of the war in Bosnia an Emmy Award for reporting on the famine and international intervention in Somalia and the A.H. Boerma Award for his coverage of global food and hunger issues. Clancy joined CNN in 1981 as a national correspondent after an extensive, award-winning career in local radio and television in Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, California. In 2012, Clancy contributed to CNN'S Emmy Award winning coverage of the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The Emmy for "Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story" was one of two awards CNN received in 2012. In January 2015, Clancy retired from CNN after nearly 34 years. He now spends his time training journalists.

Deborah Rayner is Senior Vice President of International Newsgathering, TV and Digital for CNN International. She oversees CNN's international newsgathering including the International Desk, all international correspondents and international digital editorial content on CNN.com Appointed to this role in 2014, Rayner has orchestrated a number of award-winning stories for CNN including the 2016 Royal Television Society (RTS) 'Best Breaking News Coverage' award for Paris attacks (2016) and the 2015 George Foster Peabody Award for the network's coverage of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls.

s Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Davan Maharaj oversees the largest daily newsgathering organization in the West. It includes the flagship Los Angeles Times and latimes.com; Times Community News, which consists of six suburban daily and weekly newspapers and websites; and the Spanish-language Hoy and Fin de Semana newspapers and websites. A native of Trinidad, Maharaj holds a political science degree from the University of Tennessee and a master's degree in law from Yale University.

Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois. For more than a decade, he was executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors – where he built its membership to more than 4,000 – and before that worked as an award-winning investigative reporter and database editor at U.S. newspapers. He was part of the staff at the Kansas City Star that won the Pulitzer Prize for its work on a hotel building collapse that killed 114 people and wrote the first overview story of the survivors. He is a co-founder of the linkedInProfileGlobal Investigative Journalism Network and the Investigative News Network and advises nonprofits newsrooms in the U.S. and internationally. He is co-author of the Investigative Reporter's Handbook and author of Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide. He has served as a judge for editorial awards for the Society of Publishers in Asia contest, the Selden Ring Award, the Philip Meyer Award Journalism Award, and the Forum for African Investigative Reporting. As a candidate for the new board in GIJN, he says: I am running for the board again because I want to continue to help build GIJN's training, resources, and networking. Over the past year, as chair of the board I have worked many hours on the transition of GIJN into a more formal organization. Specifically I have worked closely with the staff to incorporate GIJN and obtain its nonprofit tax status, meaning that GIJN will have more opportunities for grants and donations. I believe my long experience in investigative journalism and in running nonprofit organizations will continue to benefit GIJN as it grows, particularly in helping with strategic planning and with setting up governance and management systems that will keep GIJN running smoothly.. Over the last decade, I have worked many hours on global conferences, GIJN projects, and fundraising and watched as we have grown into an effective and inspiring organization. As board chair I have pushed to achieve consensus among board members before moving forward on any decision, while always keeping in mind the needs of all GIJN member organizations.. Because part of my job as Knight chair is to support investigative reporting globally, I can continue to devote significant time to ensuring GJIN will be there for many future generations of journalists and journalism students. I hope you will give me the opportunity to continue in a leadership role.

Alison Bethel McKenzie has more than 30 years of experience as an award-winning reporter, bureau chief, senior editor and media trainer. From 1995-2000, she was deputy business editor and then senior assistant city editor in charge of City Hall and urban affairs at The Boston Globe. In 2000, she joined The Detroit News as features editor, then served as the paper's Washington, D.C. bureau chief from 2001-2006. She joined the Legal Times in Washington, D.C. in 2006 as executive editor, and later the Nassau Guardian in The Bahamas as managing director. She spent a year in Accra, Ghana, for the Washington, D.C.-based International Center for Journalists, as a Knight International Journalism Fellow, helping Ghanaian journalists improve their reporting skills in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election. In August 2009, she joined the International Press Institute (IPI), based in Vienna, Austria, as deputy director before becoming the institute's Executive Director a year later. In her leadership role at IPI, she raised more than 1.4 million Euros for the organization, expanded its digital footprint and diversified its membership and board of directors, among numerous other achievements. She is the first woman and the first person of color in IPI's 64-year history to hold the position. She has also worked at The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, Poughkeepsie Journal and the now-defunct State Times in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She sits on the board of directors of AlJazeera America and is a member and former board member of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. She spent a year in Accra, Ghana, for the Washington, D.C.-based International Center for Journalists, as a Knight International Journalism Fellow, helping Ghanaian journalists improve their reporting skills in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election. In August 2009, she joined the International Press Institute (IPI), based in Vienna, Austria, as deputy director before becoming the institute's Executive Director a year later. In her leadership role at IPI, she raised more than 1.4 million Euros for the organization, expanded its digital footprint and diversified its membership and board of directors, among numerous other achievements. She is the first woman and the first person of color in IPI's 64-year history to hold the position She has also worked at The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, Poughkeepsie Journal and the now-defunct State Times in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She sits on the board of directors of AlJazeera America and is a member and former board member of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Bethel McKenzie is a native of Miami, Florida (U.S.A.).

Adrian Van Klaveren is Head of Strategic Change for BBC News, overseeing major change projects across BBC News including the development of digital content production and distribution. He is currently Programme Director for BBC World 2020, a large-scale investment programme for BBC World Service, creating new digital, TV and radio content and launching 12 new language services. Adrian joined the BBC in 1983 as a News Trainee. His previous roles have included Deputy Director of BBC News, Controller of BBC Radio 5 live and Head of Newsgathering. He has worked as a TV producer on most of the major BBC News programmes and ran the BBC’s World War One centenary season in 2014.