A Filippino boy hang up clothes to dry while standing in the mud left by the flood waters. (Source: AFP)

2011 Executive Team

The News Xchange Executive Team is a fantastically talented and committed group of executives from top tier media organisations, and are responsible for delivering the programme for this year's News Xchange event. Meet the team!


José Lopes de Araújo

Director of Legal, Public and International Affairs, RTP, Lisbon, Portugal.

Gerard van den Broek

Foreign editor NOS News

Paul R. Dolan

Executive Director, International Business, ABC News

Jeff Dubin

Head of News and Events, EBU, Geneva, Switzerland

Arnaud Dupont

Associate Director, Headway International, Paris, France

Elizabeth Filippouli

Director, Global Thinkers,
London, UK

Andrew Hawken

Head of Digital Media,Sky News,
London, UK

Kjell Ovre Helland

Head of Current Affairs, TV2 School Editor, TV2 Norway, Bergen, Norway

Martin Kay

Managing Director, SNTV, London, UK

Ben Koski

Senior Developer, The New York Times Interactive News Technology Team, New York, NY, United States

Takehiko Kusaba

Director, Office of Global Policy, Planning and Cooperation News Department NHK-Japan Broadcasting Corporation

Solana Larsen

Managing Editor, Global Voices Online, New York, NY United States and Berlin, Germany

Sandy MacIntyre

Vice President and Director of News for International Video, Associated Press Television News, London, UK

Jeff Nathenson

Head of Sport, YouTube EMEA, London, UK

Christoph Pleitgen

Global Head of News Agency, Thomson Reuters, London, UK

Deborah Rayner

Managing Editor, CNN Europe & Africa

Margarita Simonyan

Editor-In-Chief, RT, Moscow, Russia

Sarah Worthington

Head of Output, Al Jazeera English, Doha, Qatar

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