Focus: Media/Journalism
Paula Escobar-ChavarrĂa
Paula Escobar-ChavarrĂa is a leading Chilean journalist and writer and currently serves as Opinion Columnist for La Tercera, Professor at Universidad Diego Portales, and board member of the Young Global Leaders Foundation of the World Economic Forum and of ComunidadMujer. She launched Cátedra Mujeres y Medios at University Diego Portales to develop research and reflection about gender issues in media. Previously, she was Magazines Editor for Chile's newspaper El Mercurio, where she oversaw six weekly publications and wrote columns and articles. Previously she was the youngest person ever to serve as Editor-in-Chief for Caras magazine, where she led the publication to an increase in circulation and influence over the course…
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Mina Al-Oraibi
Mina Al-Oraibi is a journalist and political analyst focused on the Middle East. Since 2017, Mina has been the Editor-in-Chief of The National, a daily English-language newspaper based in Abu Dhabi and covering regional affairs. Previous to that, she was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for State Effectiveness where she focused on the state in Iraq, Syria, and the wider Middle East. Earlier, Mina was Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Asharq Alawsat, an international daily pan-Arab newspaper. From 2009-2011, she served as Washington D.C. bureau chief for Asharq Alawsat. She has covered the Geneva talks on Syria, Iraqi refugees, and American and European foreign policies towards the Middle East and North…
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Wang Shuo
Wang Shuo is Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Caixin, China’s leading business and finance media group. He focuses on providing high-quality news reports through leading an independent and professional standard in China. Under his leadership, the Caixin editorial team won the Shorenstein Journalism Award from Stanford University. Before Caixin, Shuo served as managing editor of Caijing, a business and finance magazine in China. Shuo is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He holds a Master’s degree in philosophy from Peking University, and a Master's degree in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University.
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RUI Chenggang
RUI Chenggang was one of China's most prominent news journalists, serving as an anchor on China Central Television. As a co-founder, anchor, and director of China’s first international television channel, Chenggang aimed to restore and promote a balanced global image of Chinese society. As CCTV's only bilingual business anchor, Chenggang interviewed many of the world's top politicians, business leaders, and economists. In 2006, Chenggang was named by the World Economic Forum as one of the 100 Most Influential Media Leaders of the World and is the author of the book, Life Begins at 30.
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Rahul Pandita
Rahul Pandita is a journalist and an author based in New Delhi. He is currently the deputy editor of the weekly news and current affairs magazine, Open. Earlier he was the opinion and special stories editor of The Hindu, one of India’s leading English-language newspapers. He has reported extensively from various theaters of war, including Iraq and Sri Lanka. In India, Rahul is mostly known for his reportage on Maoist insurgency in central and eastern India, and on the turmoil in Kashmir in northern India. He is the author of three bestselling books: Our Moon Has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir; Hello, Bastar: The Untold…
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Adamu Musa
Adamu Musa is Founder and Managing Director of AM Communications, an international consultancy in strategic and crisis communications, governance, and investment guidance in public policy and management. He is a well-known media and communications figure in Cameroon, where for more than 25 years he anchored the national prime time news broadcast by the Cameroon Radio Television Corporation (CRTV) and created and anchored two high-profile investigative news magazine programs, X-TRA MILE and CRTV CLUB. He also carried out authoritative investigations on corruption, human rights abuses, governance lapses and other societal ills. Adamu also anchored a popular CRTV flagship weekly radio program, CAMEROON CALLING. He managed a news service of both English…
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Nay Win Maung
Nay Win Maung was a leading critic of the government in Myanmar through his magazine, Living Color. Working as a publisher in a country where government policies toward the media are restrictive, Nay Win was widely read in Myanmar and the influence of Living Color magazine grew significantly under his leadership. Nay Win also co-founded two newspapers, The Voice Weekly and Foreign Affairs Weekly. As the only media advocating national reconciliation and offering constructive criticism of government policies, Nay Win's publications remain under strict scrutiny. Trained as a medical doctor, Nay Win saw himself as a policy critic and leading advocate for economic and political reform in Myanmar. He founded…
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Huzir Sulaiman
Huzir Sulaiman works across different media, art forms, and genres telling stories that allow people to access complex ideas in simple, personal, human ways. A celebrated Malaysian-born playwright, his plays include the internationally acclaimed satire Atomic Jaya (1998), which asks what would happen if Malaysia decided to build an atomic bomb, and the award-winning The Weight of Silk on Skin (2011), a meditation on women, beauty, love and loss. He heads Studio Wong Huzir, a creative consultancy, and is a Joint Artistic Director of Checkpoint Theatre, which the Financial Times (UK) called “a repository of much of [Singapore’s] best stage talent.” Huzir also writes for film, television and newspapers, and…
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Biola Alabi
Biola Alabi is an African media expert with over 25 years of local and global media experience. She is currently CEO at Biola Alabi Media Consulting, a content creation based in Lagos, Nigeria working across the world in broadcast, telecommunications, and digital industries. Biola was listed as one of the 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa by Forbes in 2013. She previously worked with leading brands DSTV, Africa's biggest pay-tv operator, Sesame Street, Bigwords.com, and Daewoo Motors. She oversaw the launch of AfricaMagic Hausa and Yoruba in 2010 and AfricaMagic Swahili in 2011: channels that have made considerable contributions to the promotion of indigenous languages and cultures in Africa. She…
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May Akl
May Akl is a founding member of the Free Patriotic Movement and advises the President of Lebanon, Michel Aoun, on a wide range of political and media issues. Earlier in her career, May worked as a reporter at An-Nahar newspaper and as a press officer in the office of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.She is a lecturer at the Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, where she also earned her BA, MA, and PhD degrees. May is also a member of the Media and Communication Committee of the Free Patriotic Movement, where she served on the party's Central Committee in 2007.
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