World News Media Congress 2023

Born in 1956 in Taipei City, Tsai Ing-wen traces her family roots to Fangshan Township of Pingtung County in southern Taiwan. Growing up at an auto repair shop run by her parents, her family background instilled in her the spirit of small and medium-sized enterprises

Agnes Stenbom is the Head of IN/LAB, a joint venture between Schibsted and the Tinius Trust. IN/LAB (“Inclusion Lab) explores futures at the intersection of journalism, technology and democracy. Agnes is an Industrial PhD candidate in AI journalism at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

Taiwan-based immersive game designer and developer. Allen studied game design in New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (Game Center) in New York City, USA. He has created many award-winning immersive games (listed below). He is also the Tokyo Game Show Scholar of IGDA Japan (International Game Developers Association, the biggest international game developer’s association), and invited to Japan in 2014 and 2015.

Andy is the Chief Executive Officer of KG Media, a media group consisting of print, broadcast, and digital platforms. As CEO, Andy is responsible to lead KG Media through a dual-transformation process:

Ankita Anand is a journalist-writer-poet based in Delhi, and has been published in various languages and countries. An editor with Unbias the News, she has been awarded the International Labour

Annamarie is a people-focused executive who leads with integrity, an executive senior leader with over 20 years experience in multiple disciplines across the business sector. Skilled in creating, driving, and implementing innovative commercial solutions that result in positive business and social outcomes. Annamarie has been successful in engaging a diverse workforce to deliver cultural and commercial change and has a track record of driving successful business transformation.

Chia Lun is responsible for Talent Sustainabilty@CW, a digital initiative focused on elevating organizational talent sustainability. Previously, Chia Lun was digital transformation director where she oversaw digital subscriptions, global partner development, and organizational development projects. She has degrees from Columbia Journalism School and Sciences Po in Paris.

Chris Janz has worked in the industry for 30 years, with roles spanning mature and growth businesses and advertising and subscription-funded products. He currently leads Capital Brief, a disruptive news startup founded on quality journalism.

Christine Su, is the APAC Director of Audience Development, Social Media and Analytics for Vogue at Condé Nast. Her team is responsible for growing audience, building viable traffic and engagement across Vogue’s digital presence in APAC – to the websites, to social, to video, email and off-platform.  With Condé Nast for 6 years, she’s held previous position in data and analytics, in charge of all data and strategy across commercial, consumer, commerce and content.

Chueiling Shin is professor in the Department of Political Economy at National Sun Yat-sen University. Prior to her academic career, she worked as the London Correspondent for Taiwan’s China TV.

As the head of media partnerships for YouTube’s top verticals in Greater China, Cloe is dedicated to accelerating partners’ long-term success. With a focus on TV&Film and News, she works to improve viewer engagement, increase watch time, and develop effective monetization strategies. With over 8 years of experience in partnership management, Cloe has a proven track record of developing sustainable news ecosystems. Her efforts align with YouTube’s goal of promoting authoritative news sources and fostering content diversity and new business models. Prior to her current role, Cloe led Ads monetization and data solutions for news publishers in Greater China.

Cori Shieh is the key enabler of development for the VR/AR industry in Taiwan and is regarded as the godmother of VR. Cori is currently the Honorary President of Taiwan Association for Virtual and Augmented Reality (TAVAR) and is actively promoting the formation and maturity of the VR/AR industry ecosystem in Taiwan. She is also the GM of Digi Space Co., Ltd., focusing on the link between Taiwan, Asia, and Silicon Valley VR/AR industry resources.

Courtney C. Radsch, Ph.D., has spent more than 20 years working at the intersection of technology and media as a scholar, journalist and advocate. Currently her research focuses on media and technology

Daryl Neo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Handshakes, an award-winning data technology company from Singapore specialising in corporate intelligence solutions.  Handshakes is invested in by Nikkei Inc, SPH Media, and S&P Global.  Daryl is also a Special Executive Officer in the Nikkei Group, the first SEO appointment by Nikkei outside Japan.  Prior to founding Handshakes in 2011, Daryl was a regulator at the Singapore Exchange (SGX).

With expertise spanning technology, law, and new media technology, this entrepreneur is not afraid to seek new challenges for possibilities at the intersection of technology and art. He has a rich and comprehensive experience, including in new media technology and touch interaction, and have obtained multiple patents in touch technology, mixed reality projection, and 5G interactive technology. In 2014, he founded TianYen Inc., focusing on the development of projection mapping interaction and mixed reality interactive experience applications. His team is adept at combining light art with digital interaction, blending art and technology, designing and developing various digital interactive new media applications, mixed reality applications, and various cutting-edge human-computer interaction technologies.

David Walmsley is the Globe and Mail’s editor-in-chief. Under his editorship, The Globe and Mail has won the annual Canadian Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism three times as well as dominated the annual National Newspaper Awards.

Dmitry Shishkin is the CEO of Ringier Media International. He joined the Swiss based group in 2024. Before joining Ringier, he became well known as an expert in digital transformation, content strategy, and innovation in publishing. One of his focus areas is the concept of user needs.

Duncan Wang received a degree in Economics from Boston University. He is the chairman of United Daily News Group, a position he has held since 2011.  He was CEO of UDNG from 2006 to 2022.  Wang was the

Eliza Anyangwe is Managing Editor of CNN’s multi-award-winning global gender inequality team As Equals, which focuses its reporting on revealing the systems that create and sustain inequality between the genders, and co-founder of The Gender Beat, a collaborative project to promote nuanced, impactful gender journalism and build a supportive community for those who produce it, particularly in the Majority World. Before joining CNN in Feb 2021, she was Managing Editor of The Correspondent, a platform for constructive, member-funded, ad-free journalism.

Emilio Basavilbaso is Chief Operating Officer (COO) in Clarin. He is responsible for the digital transformation of the company, which is crucial given the drop in paper sales. During the past year, Clarin

Emma Clark is AFP’s News Editor for Afghanistan and Pakistan, based in Islamabad since 2020. She coordinates multimedia coverage of breaking news, features and special reports on subjects including

Esther Ng joined the then Star Publications Berhad in June 1992 as a news reporter after leaving Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. As part of The Star’s court and legal affairs team, the journalism graduate covered many important trials in her five-year tenure in courts. During that time, she was also in the Parliament beat, leading the team till the 2000s. She returned to general news after leaving court reporting, covering mainly Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister assignments locally and abroad, as well as political assignments.

Ezra Eeman is Director of Strategy & Innovation at NPO, the Dutch Public Broadcaster. Ezra has almost 20 years of experience in media, innovation and journalism. Previously he was Change Director at

Faith Chen is the Associations and Industry Engagement Lead for Google in the Asia-Pacific region. With a background in journalism and a decade of experience in B2B marketing, Faith has returned to her roots by working closely with the news industry as part of the Google News Initiative. Her primary role is to support the digital transformation efforts of the broader news ecosystem, by working alongside associations, journalists, and publishers across APAC.

Fergus Bell is the founder & CEO at Fathm, a multi-award winning independent news lab, agency and consultancy. Fathm has a mission of working with people who are trying to spark creative change and drive sustainability in media by improving newsroom processes and efficiency, making use of emerging technologies, and tackling the ever increasing problems of mis and disinformation.

Fernando de Yarza is the President of Henneo, a news media group that includes 20 minutes and Heraldo de Aragon (Zaragoza, Spain). He is Vice-President at the Spanish Association of Information Media (AMI). Fernando de Yarza López-Madrazo was elected President of WAN-IFRA in June 2019.

Gary Liu is the Co-founder & CEO of Terminal 3, a company building the trusted user data layer to ‘empower an equitable web3 future’. He is also the Founder & Director of Artifact Labs which is on a mission to ‘preserve and connect history’ through the development of historical NFTs.

Glenda co-founded Rappler in July 2011 and served as its managing editor until November 16, 2020, when she was named executive editor.

She finished journalism in 1985, a year before the end of the Marcos dictatorship. She has worked for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Manila Times, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, and for international news agencies. In the dying days of the Estrada administration, she co-founded the Philippines’ top investigative magazine Newsbreak, which started as a newsweekly.

From 2008 to January 2011, she managed ANC, the ABS-CBN News Channel, as its chief operating officer.

Glenda earned her journalism degree at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. A British Chevening scholar, she holds a master’s degree in political sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1999). In May 2018, Glenda finished her Nieman journalism fellowship at Harvard University.

The books that she has authored include “Under the Crescent Moon: Rebellion in Mindanao,” with Marites Dañguilan-Vitug, a groundbreaking book on the conflict in Mindanao that won the National Book Award. In 2011, she wrote “The Enemy Within: An Inside Story on Military Corruption,” with the late Aries Rufo and Gemma Bagayaua-Mendoza.

Harry Hsu is a professional with a M.Phil. in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge in the UK. He currently works as an international business development consultant at ChoozMo Inc. and holds the position of CEO at The Icons, an esteemed international celebrity magazine based in Singapore. Harry is a trusted partner for entrepreneurs worldwide, specializing in brand communication and dedicated to promoting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ESG indicators. His areas of expertise include creating public awareness, sustainable issue marketing, and leadership branding. Prior to his current roles, Harry has served as a news anchor and held key positions in the public relations department of multinational corporations. His expertise has been recognized internationally, leading to an invitation by the Berlin City Government to speak as a keynote speaker at Asia-Pacific Week Berlin.

Tan Hui Yee is the Straits Times’ Indochina Bureau Chief, covering Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. She has been based in Bangkok since 2012. Prior to that, she was an enterprise writer, producing special reports on topics like social mobility, housing and the environment. Hui Yee’s explanatory work has won awards from the World Association of Newspapers and Publishers as well as The Society of Publishers in Asia.

Irene Jay Liu is Regional Director, Asia & the Pacific at the International Fund for Public Interest Media. She previously led the Google News Lab in the Asia-Pacific region and was an investigative reporter and data editor at Reuters, where she was a 2017 Pulitzer finalist in the national reporting category. Earlier, she worked at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and as a political reporter with the Times Union in Albany, New York.  Before moving to Singapore, she taught data-driven investigative journalism at the University of Hong Kong and Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Jane leads editorial innovation for Reuters, developing new business areas including AI, verification and events, as well as working closely with clients and others in the media industry to understand current and future trends, find new opportunities and meet customers’ changing needs. Her work includes improving digital storytelling formats, building new editorial capabilities for growth and tackling industry challenges from misinformation to talent.

Jeffrey Lo is UDN’s Chief sustainability Officer and CEO of the Vision Project, a foundation established by UDN aimed at addressing environmental sustainability, and social justice issues in Taiwan. He was previously Executive Editor at United Daily News.

Professor Pan, a former assistant professor at Yuan Ze University’s Innovation Center for Big Data and Digital Convergence, is an esteemed expert in data science and digital healthcare convergence. With a focus on improving local healthcare environments and enhancing digital capabilities, he executed impactful digital humanitarian aid projects in Central and South America, as well as Africa. His dedication led to the establishment of WaCare Telehealth in 2017, a startup aimed at addressing social inequality and minimizing pandemic impact through digital health solutions. He successfully implemented remote digital health services and a smart healthcare social network, benefiting 500 rural communities across 16 counties and cities in Taiwan. During the Covid-19 pandemic, WaCare online health activities engaged elderly individuals over 400,000 instances of online participation, mitigating the outbreak’s impact. Renowned for his expertise in leveraging technology for societal benefit, Professor Pan’s innovative approach and passion for social good have positioned him as a leading figure in digital health. His research and initiatives not only advance knowledge but also improve well-being, addressing health inequalities and making significant contributions to academia and society.

Joel Simon is the founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, part of the City University of New York. He is the author of four books, including most recently The Infodemic: How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less Free, co-authored with Robert Mahoney. He writes regularly on press freedom issues for The New Yorker, and produces a column for Columbia Journalism Review. From 2006 until 2021, Joel served as executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. During 2022, he was Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute, also at Columbia.

Joey Chung is the Co-Founder and CEO of TNL Mediagene, one of the fastest-growing digital advertising, data analytics, and media platforms in Asia, which started in mid-2013. Before starting The News Lens, he was with the Japanese multinational character and media company Sanrio as President of its China Operations in Shanghai between 2011-2013, after which he left to start The News Lens. He graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA degree in 2009 and has published several books, and was also a columnist for Business Weekly Taiwan.

Joseph Kahn is the executive editor of The New York Times. He oversees all aspects of The Times’s global newsroom and news report. Before becoming executive editor in June 2022, Mr. Kahn had served

Josh Quittner is the CEO and co-founder of Decrypt Media Inc., a website that provides news and information about Web3, AI and emerging technology. A tech writer and editor, Quittner’s career included stints at Time Magazine, Fortune, Business 2.0, Newsday, Wired and Flipboard. He was the original owner of mcdonalds.com, in 1994.

Joyce leads the team in APAC that looks after YouTube’s Responsibility verticals: News, Health, Learning, Civics, and Family. Her background is in managing partnerships with various news organizations for YouTube in Asia Pacific, helping YouTube’s efforts to elevate authoritative news sources on the video platform in the region, as well as various initiatives to help the news ecosystem thrive on YouTube. Prior to this role, Joyce was part of Google’s Communications team for 8 years where she worked on Google Search, Hardware, and YouTube.

As a Partner at Innovation, Juan Senor has directed projects all over the world helping news operations to re-invent their products and stay relevant with shifting audiences. He has worked and advised hundreds.

Kamal Ahmed is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The News Movement, a new media business focused on social media channels, new audiences and digital consumption. Between 2018 and 2021, Kamal was Editorial Director of BBC News, working across news strategy, daily news and planning, commissioning, analysis, visual and audio journalism and new forms of digital content. He was a member of the Newsgroup Board and the Sounds board.

Thandar leads the programmes and activities for WIN SEA as Director for the region. She previously served as Country Lead for Myanmar in the past years.Thandar is a marketing and communications professional previously led a commercial teamof one of the leading media in Myanmar, Frontier Myanmar. In parallel, she also led the Black Knight Marketing and Communication Agency that is a sister company of Frontier Myanmar in collaborating with a number of top international clients in Myanmar.

Ladina Heimgartner (*1980) has been a member of the Group Executive Board of Ringier AG since February 2020 and, as Head Global Media, is responsible for Ringier’s media business at Group level. She has been CEO of Ringier Media Switzerland since September 2023.

Laura est une technologue et une journaliste spécialisée dans les technologies émergentes, l’apprentissage automatique, la désinformation et les données. Elle a travaillé dans des équipes d’information à la radio, à la télévision et en ligne et a dirigé deux équipes régionales d’information et d’affaires courantes à travers un changement technologique important, établissant la première salle de rédaction numérique de bout en bout de la BBC. Dans son rôle actuel, elle veille à ce que la BBC soit la mieux placée pour tirer parti des technologies émergentes et s’intéresse particulièrement à l’éthique, au journalisme personnalisé et automatisé, à l’apprentissage automatique et à la provenance des contenus.

Mr. Leo Cheng Shang Li is an entrepreneur and expert of Culture and Creative Industries, specialized on Creative Economy, Culture Statistics, Culture Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation for Culture and Creative Industries. Before join Funique VR, Leo was international consultant for UNCTAD Creative Economy Program, co-author of UN Creative Economy Report 2008/2010, and co-founder of UNCTAD Global Database Creative Economy. He was Director of International Market and Culture Technology of Taiwan Creative Content Agency. Leo was Multiple Taiwanese Government Projects Leader, and public speaker for international forums and guest lecturer at universities.

Ling-Sze is Reuters Head of News Agency Sales for Asia, leading a team of sellers across Asia and responsible for all Reuters News Agency revenue across Field, Channel, and Inside Sales teams. Based in Singapore, Ling-Sze has more than 20 years of experience in international media businesses, with most recent experience as head of sales for NBC Universal (Asia) and prior, with a variety of roles at Sony Pictures Entertainment (Asia), A+E Networks (Asia), Group M, Discovery Networks Asia and BBC Worldwide.

Lisa has over 25 years of experience in print to digital transformation, most notably at the Financial Times where she led newsroom operations, was an Assistant Editor and Managing Editor, Associate Editor and Head of Operations for FT.com. She led group-wide digital transformation projects at both of South Africa’s biggest publishers, Tiso Blackstar (now Arena Holdings) and Naspers’s 24.com.

Lisa is former Vice President of the World Association of News Publishers, advisor and coach with Women in News, a board member of the World Editors Forum, Leader in Residence at the University of Lancashire and a mentor with the Journalism Innovation Leaders faculty.

Lyndsey Jones is a publishing consultant, digital transformation expert, strategic advisor and coach, working with media groups in Africa and Europe either independently or via WAN-IFRA, Women in News, FT Strategies and other consultancy agencies.

Maria Ressa co-founded Rappler, the top digital only news site that is leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines. As Rappler’s CEO, Maria has endured constant political harassment and arrests by the Duterte government, forced to post bail ten times to stay free. Rappler’s battle for truth and democracy is the subject of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival documentary, A Thousand Cuts.

Martha Ramos Sosa is chief editorial officer of the Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM), the largest Mexican print media company and the largest newspaper company in Latin America. The company owns a large newswire service, it includes 45 Mexican daily newspapers and 44 websites.

Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work. A former Knight International Journalism Fellow and a Reuters Institute Journalism Fellow, Mia speaks internationally about health issues in Africa and media sustainability in the Global South. Mia has published widely in books and academic journals, including the Brown Journal of World Affairs and the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. She was a TEDx speaker on how Covid changed news reporting and regularly moderates panels for high-level events.

Michael Miller has been Executive Chairman of News Corp Australasia since November 2015. News Corp Australia is Australia’s leading media company with a diverse portfolio of brands that connect with 7 out of

Graduated from London Metropolitan University MA Marketing Master, specializing in system integration planning marketing, solution agency and sales, and value-added service development, good at marketing, etc., has many years of experience in network system integration, and has accumulated many years of marketing business experience in various industries.

Mitali Mukherjee is a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital journalism. She was a Chevening fellow for the South Asia Journalism Fellowship 2020, a Raisina Asian Forum for Global Governance Young Fellow 2019 and a 2017 fellow of the Australia India Youth Dialogue. In 2020, she was nominated for the prestigious Red Ink Awards in India for two of her business stories.

Mohit Jain, is the Chief Operating Officer (Publishing) & member of the Board of Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd (BCCL). He also represents BCCL on the Board of Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC), an industry

Nic Hopkins is Head of News Ecosystem Relations and Development for Google in APAC. Nic has worked in journalism and technology for more than 25 years. He began his career as a business journalist at The Advertiser newspaper in Adelaide. He then covered the first internet boom for The Australian in Sydney before joining The Times of London, where he wrote about the dotcom crash and the emergence of new technology trends that have had a profound impact on today’s society. He later moved into digital editing and strategy in Sydney and New York, and was part of the team that created News Corp’s first paywall and news apps in Australia.

Nwabisa Makunga is the Editor of the Sowetan, a national daily publication in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has been a journalist for 18years, with a keen interest in politics, socio-economic development and gender equality. She is the former Editor of The Herald & Weekend Post and former News Editor of Business Day, South Africa. Makunga has vast experience in Newsroom leadership, change management and systemic migration to digital platforms. She is the Deputy Chairperson of the South African National Editors Forum and a member of the SA Press Council.

Pamella Makotsi Sittoni is a Kenyan journalist with more than 20 years’ experience in the media in East Africa.

Sittoni has recently been promoted to Group Managing Editor at Nation Media Group, and has previously served as Executive Editor Partnerships of the Daily Nation, in the Nation Media Group (NMG). Throughout the years, she has held several leadership positions including Executive and Managing Editor at Daily Nation, and also managing editor of NMG’s regional newspaper, The East African, from 2012 to 2018, and as managing editor of The Standard, from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2012, she worked as a communications specialist at UNICEF Kenya, where she was charged with advocacy for children and women. Sittoni began her career at the NMG as a reporter in 1993 and rose to chief sub-editor. In 2003, she moved to the Standard Group as deputy managing editor. In 2017, Sittoni was named by the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) the laureate of the Women in News Editorial Leadership Award for Sub-Saharan Africa. She is a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, through the Africa Leadership Initiative. She holds a bachelor’s in literature and anthropology and a post-graduate diploma in communication from the University of Nairobi. In addition, she has a master’s in communication from the University of Leicester.

Pierre Louette has been Chairman and CEO of Les Echos – Le Parisien, the media division of LVMH Group, since March 2018. The group’s media activities are focused on three key ideas: the promotion of quality journalism, the creation of value in the digital world and the diversification of its brands into new areas (services, e-commerce, events…). Pierre Louette was also elected President of the Syndicat de la Presse Quotidienne Nationale (SPQN) in July 2020 and President of the Alliance de la Presse d’Information Générale (APIG) in October 2020. In February 2021, he published a book: “Des géants et des hommes” (éditions Robert Laffont). How to end the hold of the GAFA on our lives.

Ray is a top-tier counselor who has straddled the industry, government, and academia. With experience in corporate counseling and innovation in Taiwan and abroad for more than 16 years  Ray is currently targeting the web 3.0 market as the next big thing, specifically the opportunity conversion of physical object into virtual objects in Metaverse.

As the pioneer in Metaverse, Ray is now building a platform to preserve and display 3D+audio guide for priceless items in the world. Starting with museums, Ray is creating an easy 3D Digital Assets Security System to help countries to make everything in 3D and they can share and trade in metaverse.

Ging Reyes is the former head of Integrated News and Current Affairs at Philippine broadcaster ABS-CBN. She retired in 2022 after 36 years in the field of broadcast journalism, including 12 years as the news chief of one of the country’s leading media companies.

Reyes helped ABS-CBN News transition into a fully integrated news organization that delivered news and public service to Filipinos worldwide across different platforms even during the pandemic.

Richard Gingras is Vice President, News at Google. In that role Gingras guides Google’s strategies in how it surfaces news on Google search, Google News, and its smart devices. He also oversees Google’s effort to enable a healthy, open ecosystem for quality journalism, which includes Subscribe with Google, Google’s Tools for Journalists, Accelerated Mobile Pages and various other efforts to enable journalists and news providers to be effective and sustainable. In March 2018, Gingras announced the Google News Initiative, a global effort including $300 million dollars to elevate quality journalism, explore new models for sustainability, and provide technology to stimulate cost-efficiency in newsrooms. Gingras is a member of the Knight Commission on Trust, Media, and Democracy and was a co-founder of the Trust Project.

The Managing Editor of the world’s largest daily newspaper, Riichiro Maeki is a seasoned journalist who has covered Japanese politics for over 30 years. After graduating Hokkaido University in 1987, Maeki joined the paper and became a political correspondent. After experiencing some management posts internally, Maeki currently heads the reporters of the mega-paper as Managing Editor from June of 2021. Under his watch the paper won the Newspaper Association Award, Japan’s highest journalism award, in 2022.

Robin Harding is Asia Editor for the Financial Times, responsible for steering coverage across the region, and managing the FT’s award-winning network of correspondents.

He was previously Tokyo Bureau Chief, covering the Japanese economy, politics and foreign relations, and the US Economics Editor based in Washington DC, where he covered the Federal Reserve and the International Monetary Fund.

Robin was born in Durham, in the north of England, and has degrees in economics from the University of Cambridge and Hitotsubashi University. Before becoming a journalist he worked in banking, asset management and public policy research.

Robyn Tomlin is a veteran journalist, media executive and leader in local news transformation efforts. Tomlin is currently Chief News Officer at McClatchy where she supports local newsroom leaders across the U.S. in their quest to build sustainable digitally-focused local news operations. Prior to taking on that role, Tomlin was the president and editor of The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., and southeast regional editor for McClatchy.

Tham Seen Hau is the digital editor of the independent news portal Malaysiakini. She has over two decades of experience working in satellite television news, radio and digital media. She has covered Malaysian politics extensively over the years with a particular interest in infringement of human rights and political violence.

A Taiwanese with an engineer background, went to Japan for development in 2016. In 2019, ALION Co., Ltd. was established in Japan to mainly provide cloud system software development services. In 2022, SWise Co., Ltd. was established in Japan to mainly provide Web3.0 metaverse virtual space services for remote work processes.

Stig Ørskov is the CEO of JP/Politiken Media Group and Vice President of WAN-IFRA. JP/Politiken Media Group is one of the leading media organizations in the Nordics. The organisation manages a portfolio of several national news brands, local and global niche media, book publishing and streaming activities, and Denmark’s largest last mile distribution enterprise.

Styli Charalambous co-founded the Daily Maverick, in 2009, while navigating industry disruption and the country’s turbulent politics. As founding CEO and publisher, Styli helped grow Daily Maverick from a 5 person start-up to now more than 100 full-time staff, reaching 9m monthly unique visitors with 20k voluntary paying members. He is passionate about leadership and innovation focusing on new revenue models, product, technology and membership in news. In 2021, he was awarded South Africa’s top journalism award for courage and integrity for his shaping role in Daily Maverick’s success.

Toshio Machida has served as Managing Executive Officer of Nikkei since March 2022, and is responsible for ‘Scout Asia’ business, which started as a Nikkei-FT’s synergy project in digital B2B arena. Prior to the current position, he was in charge of developing various digital content startups in Nikkei, after having experienced an editor-in-chief of Nikkei Online Tech-Section, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief. Joined Nikkei as a business journalist in 1986.

Peyrègne took up duties as Chief Executive Officer of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) on 1 October 2012. Prior to joining WAN-IFRA, since the end of 2008 he worked in the office of the French minister of Culture and Communication where he was responsible for newspapers and new media as well as the “états généraux de la presse écrite,” the French government’s response to the economic difficulties facing the newspaper industry. From 2004 to 2008 he was head of development at Edipresse Publications SA in Lausanne, with responsibility for reader studies and marketing research.

Wang Xiangwei is one of Asia’s leading commentators on China and its international relations. He has over 30 years of reporting and writing on Greater China region.

Yitina Liao devoted to market research industry after she got her MBA degree. With 10+ years of data analysis experience from marketing and market research firm, Yitina Liao shows the passion not only to analysis data but also finding insight and potential adjustment suggestion from data via simply and direct infographic display. Yitina Liao also began her journey in industry and startup consulting related career via join government related institutes when she relocated in Kaohsiung. During her stay in related institutes, she began to promote Taiwan company and resources aboard.

Winston Utomo is the Founder & CEO of IDN Media, the leading media platform company for Millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia, with over 80 million monthly active users across its platforms. IDN Media’s vision is to democratize information for every Indonesian.