Fran Unsworth was appointed as the new chair of INSI in April 2024. Fran has worked in the media for over 40 years, having previously been Director of News and Current Affairs at the BBC.

Callum Hunt is Head of Business for the BBC’s World Service Group.

Elena is the director of INSI. She has worked as a journalist and current affairs documentary filmmaker at CNN, ITN, BBC and others over nearly 20 years. She’s travelled the world covering natural disasters, wars, migration, drug trafficking, terrorism and organised crime.

Cilla Benkö is the director general of Swedish Radio. She is a member of the European Broadcasting Union's executive board and chair of the Prix Europa.

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.

Liz Corbin is deputy media director and head of news at the European Broadcasting Union.

Caroline Drees is the Senior Director for Field Safety and Security at National Public Radio (NPR), based in Washington D.C.

Paul Danahar is the Foreign Editor at BBC News.

Dr Mark Grant is the VP of global security and safety at the Associated Press. Mark has operated extensively across high-risk environments around the world and has previously supported and managed security and safety for Sky News, the BBC and CNN. He holds a master’s degree and a professional doctorate in security risk management, with a specific focus on journalism security.

Simon Gardner is Reuters’ Global Head of Editorial Safety, responsible for ensuring the safety of the news agency’s teams around the globe in high-risk environments. During three decades at Reuters, he has worked as a reporter and bureau chief in Latin America and overseen Reuters’ editorial operations in Asia and Ukraine. He has worked in some 35 countries, covering geopolitics, economics, war, coups, natural disasters, drug violence and corruption and managing risk.

Michael Herrod is the head of foreign news at ITV News.

Tim Singleton is the head of international news at Sky News.

Deborah Rayner is the senior vice president of international newsgathering, TV and digital, at CNN International. She oversees CNN's international newsgathering including the international desk, all international correspondents and international digital editorial content on CNN.com.

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.

Jon Williams is former managing director, News & Current Affairs at RTÉ - Ireland's national broadcaster. In 2024, he became director of the Rory Peck Trust.

Antonio Zappulla is the CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the world’s largest news and information provider. Antonio is the founder of Openly, the world’s first news platform dedicated to coverage of under-reported LGBT+ stories.