About EJC - Board of Directors
The Board of Directors includes senior members of many international professional bodies, as well as representatives from the European institutions and from the ranks of journalism educators.
Executive Committee
- Ove Joanson (chairman)
Former Director General of Swedish Broadcasting and CEO of the "20-Minutes Holding" in Zürich.
He now runs his own company, "Media Conglomerate AB", which develops new media projects across Europe. - Vicent Partal (vice-chairman)
Founder and Director of VilaWeb.cat an electronic newspaper based in Barcelona which is the main Catalan language site.
He has also been working as a foreign affairs correspondent in Central and Eastern Europe focusing on the former USSR. Partal is a member of the advisory boards of the Catalan Open University and the FC Barcelona official TV channel. - Hugh Stephenson (former chairman)
Emeritus Professor of Journalism, City University London, United Kingdom
Board
- Elio Comarin
Former Deputy Editor-in-chief, Radio France Internationale, France - Annelie Ewers
Managing Director, FOJO, Sweden - Kieran Fagan
Freelance journalist and media consultant, Ireland - Jonathan Fenby
Editor -in-Chief, Trusted Sources, United Kingdom - Kevin Healy
Public Affairs Consultant, Ireland - Valia Kaimaki
Journalist, Eleftherotypia newspaper / Greek National Radiotelevision, Greece - Maroun Labaki
Editor, Le Soir, Belgium - Jean-Pierre Langellier
UK/Ireland correspondent, Le Monde, United Kingdom - Jens Linde
Managing Editor, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Denmark - Andres Kuusk
Head of News, Estonian Television, Estonia - Aralynn McMane
Director, Young Readership Development, WAN, France - Reino Paasilinna
MEP, journalist, Dir. Gen. Finland - Mercedes Riederer
Editor-in-chief, Politics and News, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Germany - Mario Bettencourt-Resendes
Assistant to the board of Global Noticias and columnist of Diario de Noticias, Portugal