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Meet the newly elected members of the IFJ Executive Committee

07 May 2026

Meet the newly elected members of the IFJ Executive Committee

Twenty-two delegates were elected at the IFJ's Centenary World Congress in Paris on 6 and 7 May. Their term will last from 2026 until 2029.

Newly elected Administrative Committee members with former IFJ President Dominique Pradalié. Credit: Frédéric Moreau de Bellaing.

President

Zuliana Lainez Otero

Asociación Nacional de Periodistas (ANP), Peu

Senior Vice President

Nasser Abu Baker

Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), Palestine

Vice-President

Zied Dabbar

Syndicat National des Journalistes Tunisiens (SNJT), Tunisia

Vice-President

Jennifer Moreau

Unifor, Canada

Honorary-

Treasurer

Raffaele Lorusso

Federazione Italiana della Stampa (FNSI), Italy

Advisers

Adhwan Al-Ahmari

Saudi Journalists Association (SJA), Saudi Arabia

Mohamed Al Araimi

Oman Journalists Association (OJA), Oman

Rashid Al Hamer

Bahrain Journalists Association (BJA), Bahrain

Maria Antoniadou

Journalists' Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (JUADN) , Greece

Laura Davison

National Union of Journalists (NUJ), UK and Ireland

Samira de Castro

Federação Nacional dos Jornalistas (FENAJ), Brazil

Carla Gaudensi

Federación Argentina de Trabajadores de Prensa (FATPREN), Argentina

Mylène Girardeau

Syndicat National des Journalistes (SNJ), France

Adriana Hurtado

Federación Colombiana de Periodistas (FECOLPER), Colombia

Park Jong Hyun

Journalist Association of Korea (JAK), Korea

Joachim Kreibich

dju in ver.di, Germany

Marion Medjo Obam

Syndicat National des Journalistes du Cameroun (SNJC), Cameroon

Adam Portelli

Media Entertainment Arts and Alliance (MEAA), Australia

Guruh Dwi Riyanto

Sindikasi, Indonesia

Maria Luisa Rogério

Sindicatos dos Jornalistas Angolanos (SJA), Angola

Jonathan Schleuss

NewsGuild-CWA, United States of America

María Ángeles Samperio

Federación de Asociaciones de Periodistas de España (FAPE), Spain

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