BOARD

CEO, co-founder - Kayeromi Gomez (Chicago, USA) has worked for the leading Golfe TV in Benin, and is currently the North American news correspondent for Citi FM in Ghana. He is also the executive counselor of Benin Diaspora USA, advising their board in a range of areas including management and fundraising. He is a graduate of the Ghana Institute of Journalism, and then moved on to study business and finance at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he was elected to two honors societies in recognition of his commitment to professional and public service.

COO, co-founder - Melisande Middleton (Lausanne, Switzerland) has been invited to speak about media ethics by institutions including the London School of Economics, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and UNESCO. She was a visiting scholar at Oxford University's PCMLP in 2009. She has collaborated with the World Bank and the UN, as well as conducted research & teaching across five continents. She was formerly a journalist for the French financial daily Les Echos, and is an honors graduate of Stanford University and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

International Press Institute (IPI) (Vienna, Austria) - The IPI organization as a whole has joined the Board of CIME in support of our mission. Directed by David Dadge, IPI is a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists. It is dedicated to the furtherance and safeguarding of press freedom and related causes, including the improvement of the practices of journalism. Since its founding in 1950, IPI has expanded to become a leading global press freedom organization.

Martin Huckerby (London, UK) is a British editorial consultant, who has trained journalists on ethical issues in countries as varied as Russia, China and Sierra Leone. He was a reporter and news editor at The Times, then Foreign News Editor of The Observer, and Editor of The Prague Post. As well as his international work in media development, he has authored the Unesco handbook, The Net for Journalists, and was consultant editor on the first guide to human rights reporting for Chinese journalists.

Martha Ivanovas (Brussels, Belgium) currently works for the German Marshall Fund in Brussels. Her former experience in public relations included organising lectures and conferences on politics in Germany, Scotland and Belgium. She holds graduate degrees in European Politics and Administration from the College of Europe in Belgium, and in Economics and International Relations from the University of St Andrews in Scotland,

Matthew Kwasiborski (Washington DC, USA) is Director of the AIPES and EJI programs at The Fund for American Studies (TFAS). Matt studied Executive Leadership at the Thierry Graduate School of Leadership in Belgium, and has worked as an instructor in ethics. From 2001 to 2004 he was Director of the Loyola University Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America program in New Orleans, becoming a 2004 nominee for the Leon J. Obermayer Award for outstanding alumni of Philadelphia's School District.

Geoffrey Nyarota (Boston, USA) is an award-winning journalist and editor of The Zimbabwe Times, an online newspaper that he publishes out of Massachusetts, USA. He is the former founder and editor in chief of the first independent Zimbabwean newspaper, The Daily News, now defunct. His work on press freedom led him to be forced out of his country in 2002. Since moving to the US in 2003, he has taught at Harvard University and Bard College, and continues to work toward an independent Zimbabwean press from abroad.

Dr. Stephen J. A. Ward (Madison, USA) is the author of the award-winning The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond. For 15 years, he was a Canadian political journalist covering conflicts in Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Northern Ireland. He was also the British Columbia bureau chief for The Canadian Press news agency in Vancouver.He has a PhD from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, and is currently a professor and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Damian Tambini, professor at LSE, former director of Oxford's PCMLP & current fellow at Oxford Internet Institute, who works on media & social responsibility.