ABOUT
IWPR governance, staff & offices
Governance
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting is governed by senior journalists, specialists and business professionals. Board committees focus expertise on finance, development and other areas.
IWPR Ambassadors, drawn from the fields of diplomacy, media and business, contribute expertise and extend IWPR’s partnerships and networks of support. All Members serve on the IWPR International Board, to provide strategic guidance, expertise, and outreach assistance.
Adrienne van Heteren
Co-Founder & Director, Small Media Foundation
UK Governance Committee
Anthony Borden
IWPR Executive Director
US & NL Governance Committees; Finance Committee; Nominations Committee
Christina Lamb
Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Sunday Times
Clarissa Ward
Chief International Correspondent, CNN
Consuelo Saavedra
Senior Correspondent, Radio Duna, Chile
Sir David Bell
Former Chair, Pearson Plc & Financial Times
Chair, Int'l Board & UK Governance Committee; US & NL Governance Committees; Chair, Nominations Committee
Eileen O'Connor
Senior Vice President for Communications, Policy, and Advocacy, Rockefeller Foundation
Frans Makken
Ambassador (Ret.)
Chair, NL Governance Committee
George Packer
Author & Staff Writer, Atlantic
Gillian Tett
US Managing Editor, Financial Times
Ian D. Highet
Managing Partner, Court Square Capital Partners
US Governance Committee
Janine di Giovanni
Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute, Yale University
Jay Winthrop
Managing Member, Principal, Douglass Winthrop Advisors
John Ridding
CEO, FT Group
John-Allan Namu
Investigative journalist & co-founder, Africa Uncensored
Michael Immordino
Partner, White & Case
UK Governance Committee
Niva Yau
Nonresident Fellow, Global China Hub, Atlantic Council
Ole Johan Bjørnøy
Norwegian Ambassador to Central Asia (ret.)
Oleksandra Matviichuk
Head of the Center for Civil Liberties, Ukraine
Ralph H. Isham
Founder & Managing Director, GH Venture Partners
Chair, US Governance Committee
Ramsey Walker
Senior Vice President, Jordan Park
Chair, Fundraising Committee
Richard Caplan
Professor, Int'l Relations, University of Oxford
Monitoring & Evaluation Liaison
Scott Malcomson
Int'l Security Fellow, New America; Media Fellow at Carnegie Corporation
US Governance Committee
Simon Hersom
Consultant, Value Retail Plc
Treasurer, UK & NL Governance Committees; Chair, Finance Committee; Nominations Committee
Sonya Vekstein
CFO, Int’l Science and Technology Center
Treasurer, US Governance Committee; Finance Committee
Stephen Jukes
Dean, Media School, Bournemouth University
UK Governance Committees; Security & Risk Liaison
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
Global Energy & Climate Innovation Editor of The Economist
Zoran Pajić
Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London
INTERNATIONAL BOARD
The IWPR International Board benefits from expertise and input from additional individuals from countries with human rights concerns. Due to risks, these names cannot be made public.
Staff
IWPR employs a range of staff to support our activities, with skills in programme, finance, development, journalism and editorial, new media and other functions essential to our success.
Small central teams in London and Washington, D.C., support the large majority of our personnel who are national hires based in our countries of programme operation.
Abakhon Sultonnazarov
Central Asia Programme Director
Akbota Sheriyazdan
Go Viral Project Manager, Central Asia
Alan Davis
Asia & Eurasia Director
Alireza Eshraghi
Director of Programmes
Angela Conroy
Global HR Director
Anne Benda
Middle East, North Africa, & South Asia Project Officer
Anthony Borden
IWPR Executive Director
US & NL Governance Committees; Finance Committee; Nominations Committee
Ayan Oryntay
Project Manager
Aziza Mukhametova
Project Manager
Beka Bajelidze
Caucasus Regional Director
Carolina Méndez Valencia
Organisational Development Manager
Caroline Preece
HR Specialist
Carrie Benis
International Compliance Manager
Cecilia Gandarilla
Digital Manager for Social Movements
Cecilia Ruberto
Principal Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Manager
Dahlia Khoury
Syria Country Director
Daniella Peled
Managing Editor
Dhaniella Falk
Latin America & the Caribbean Programme Director
Edmalynne Remillano
Project Assistant
Elvira Durglishvili
Finance Manager
Flavio Santos
Finance Officer
Gabriela Brenes
Training & Media Development Manager
Gehan Fernando
Head of Programme Finance
Handa Chuluunbaatar
HR Systems & Benefits Coordinator
Jefferson Rodríguez Olivares
Certified Public Accountant
José Luis Benítez
CAPIR Project Manager
Len Daniel
Finance & Administration Manager
Lola Kholikjanova-Olimova
Central Asia Editor & Project Manager, Tajikistan
Maftuna Abdugaffrova
GoViral Country Ambassador, Uzbekistan
Manal Moussa
Operations Manager
Merdijana Sadović
Senior Project Manager
Monica Ellena
Eurasia editor
Naidelyn Sibaja
Research and M&E Analyst
Nino Pachuashvili
Country Coordinator, Georgia
Olga Golovina
Editorial Coordinator
Reza H. Akbari
Middle East, North Africa, & South Asia Program Manager
Rorie Fajardo-Jarilla
Asia Programme Coordinator & Philippines Country Director
Sarah Willis
Finance Director
Seth Meixner
Middle East & North Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean Regional Director
Srđan Pajić
Designer & Website Manager
Stephen Ramsey
Chief Operating Officer
Tamar Kapanadze
Project Coordinator
Tanya Hassan
Global Director of Development
Thomas Baker
Associate Regional Director
Vonda Wolcott
Senior Project Manager
Waheed Hanware
Finance Business Partner
Yhiba Carmichael-Ginindza
Recruitment & HR Advisor
Offices
Disinformation is a major global threat , especially in conflict and post-conflict areas. IWPR performs a vital mission, building up local voices as a bulwark against this challenge.
Democratic accountability comes from journalists investigating their own societies – IWPR provides a much needed platform and support for those reporting from some of the most dangerous and difficult places in the world.
IWPR fills a critical gap by helping local journalists to focus on human rights and justice issues. In the process, it contributes to democratic transitions, and demonstrates that the best war reporting is not about military conflict, but human consequences.
