Boards
Board of Trustees
Sue Inglish (Chair)
International News Safety Institute
Sue Inglish
Sue Inglish has been INSI’s chair since 2016. She is a former head of political programmes at the BBC and a former deputy editor and foreign editor of Channel 4 News in the UK. She is an independent governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.
Neil Ashton (Treasurer)
BBC
Neil Ashton
Neil Ashton is INSI’s treasurer. He is finance director at the BBC News Group which delivers the majority of news and current affairs output on BBC TV, radio and online, in the UK and internationally.
Salim Amin
Camerapix
Salim Amin
Salim Amin is the Nairobi-based chairman of Camerapix, the founder of the Mohamed Amin Foundation and the co-founder of A24 Media. In December 2012, Salim was named as one of the “100 Most Influential Africans” by New African Magazine and was in the magazine’s “Top 50 Under 50” Africans in 2013.
Barbara Trionfi
International Press Institute
Michael Christie
Thomson Reuters
Michael Christie
Michael Christie is the general manager for global logistics and security at Thomson Reuters. He oversees security on a global level for 2,600 journalists, and is responsible for drawing up safety protocols, organizing hostile environment training, procuring personal protective equipment and deploying security advisers when necessary.
Jeff Dubin
European Broadcasting Union
Jeff Dubin
Jeff Dubin is the head of news and events at the European Broadcasting Union.
Jan Thompson
Guardian
Jan Thompson
Jan Thompson is the news and media managing editor at the Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom.
Tommy Evans
CNN
Tommy Evans
Tommy Evans is vice president and London bureau chief for CNN International, overseeing all newsgathering for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Overseeing 15 CNN International bureaux, Evans has led CNN’s coverage of some of the major news events of the past few years including Brexit, the terror attacks across Europe, the Syrian civil war, the Eurozone crisis, and the 2012 London Olympics.
Noriko Kudo
NHK News
Noriko Kudo
Noriko Kudo is the head of media cooperation and strategy at NHK News in Japan.
Richard Tait
Cardiff School of Journalism
Richard Tait
Richard Tait is INSI’s former treasurer and a founding member. He is a professor of journalism at Cardiff University, a former editor of BBC's Newsnight and Channel 4 News and was editor-in-chief of ITN.
Deborah Rayner
CNN
Tim Singleton
DFID
Tim Singleton
Tim Singleton is the director of communications at the Department for International Development. Prior to joining DFID he was director of news gathering at ITV news.
Sally Buzbee
The Associated Press
Sally Buzbee
Sally Buzbee is the executive editor of The Associated Press. Prior to this she served as the news organisation’s Washington bureau chief for six years, and its Middle East regional editor based in Cairo for five years.
NAME | TITLE | ORGANISATION | COUNTRY |
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Honorary Officers | |||
Bill Wheatley | Professor of Journalism | Colombia Journalism School | USA |
George Brock | Professor of Journalism | City University London | UK |
Stewart Purvis | Board Director | Channel Four | UK |
Owais Aslam Ali | Chairman | Pakistan Press Foundation | Pakistan |
Elizabeth Fillipouli | Founder & CEO | Global Thinkers Forum | Greece/UK |
Jane Hawkes | Co-founder | Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence & Trauma | Canada |
Parisa Khosravi | Senior Vice President | CNN | USA |
William Horsley | Director EMEA | Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield | UK |