Melisande Middleton (Co-Founder - Lausanne, Switzerland) coordinates CIME. She 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) in international policy and economics. In 2010 Melisande coined the term "J-Ethinomics".

Kayeromi Gomez (Co-Founder - 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.

Yaroslava Sennikova (President/Treasurer - St. Petersburg, Russia) is a graduate of St.Petersburg State University faculty of Journalism. In 2006 she was awarded the John Smith Memorial Trust leadership fellowship. Her experience as a journalist includes Area of St. Petersburg and the Nevsky Press Club. Most recently she served as Development Manager and Editor of Special Events for STO TV, a newly formed television station.

Matthew Kwasiborski (Vice President/Treasurer - Washington DC, USA) is European Institutes Director 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.

Marketa Bilska (Executive Director - Istanbul, Turkey) received a M.A. in European Media Studies at the University of Exeter in 2009. She now pursues a PhD at Sabanci University in Istanbul and works as an Early Stage Researcher in ELECDEM - the Marie Curie Initial Training Network in Electoral Democracy funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission. Marketa examines the effect of media exposure on electoral volatility in post-Communist countries. Relationship between media and political parties and the effect of media on democracy are among Marketa's research interests.

Monique Loayza (General Secretary - Westchester, NY, USA), holds an MSc in Communication Regulation and Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. As an undergraduate at New York University, she researched the roles of journalists as professionals in Latin America. She has previously worked for a program focusing on media reform at the Social Science Research Council in New York and provided support for the launch of a copyright policy initiative at Consumers International in London.

Martha Ivanovas (Brussels, Belgium) is a consultant with APCO Worldwide, and advises CIME in management strategy and public relations. She previously worked for the German Marshall Fund in Brussels, and has organized lectures and conferences on media and 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.

David Dadge (Vienna, Austria) is Director of the International Press Institute (IPI) which 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.

David Nordfors (Stanford, USA) is co-founder and Executive Director of the Innovation Journalism center at Stanford University. He is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University’s H-Star Institute. He is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism, as well as the World Economic Forum Global Redesign Initiative. He was the initial Science Editor of Datateknik, the largest Swedish magazine for IT professionals. He was also the founding publisher and editor of "IT och Lärande" (IT and Learning), the largest Swedish newsletter for educators.

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. Damian Tambini (Oxford, UK) is a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE), and previously led the PCMLP program at Oxford University (2002-06). He is an expert in media and telecommunications, and has shared his research to fuel key policy debates in the field. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK and serves on the Boards of The Oxford Media Convention, the Creative Archive License Group, and Polis. He also teaches for the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program, an alliance of NYU Stern, the LSE and HEC School of Management.

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.