The Sunday Times Editor appointed to WAN board

The Editor-in-chief of The Sunday Times, Sinha Ratnatunga, has been appointed to the board of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) at the Annual General Meeting held during the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Göteborg, Sweden on Wednesday.

Gavin O’Reilly, the Chief Operating Officer of Ireland-based Independent News & Media PLC, was re-elected President of the Association for a third term of two years.

The events, the global meetings of the world’s press, drew more than 1,500 publishers, editors and other senior newspaper executives from 113 countries.

The New Board Members from 13 countries who were elected on Wednesday are: Frédéric Aurand, Board Chairman of Groupe Hersant Media France; Oyungerel Batnasan, Executive Director of the Newspaper Association of Mongolia, Indira Crasnea, Deputy Chief Editor of Mediafax Romania, Philip Crawley, Publisher & CEO of the Globe & Mail Canada; Mathias Döpfner, CEO & Chairman Axel Springer Germany; Dahlan Iskan, Publisher and Chief Editor of the Jawa Post Indonesia; Tibor Kovacs, CEO of Nepszabadsag, Hungary; Remzi Lani, Director of the Albanian Media Institute; François Le Hodey, CEO of S.A. Informations et Productions Multimedia, Belgium; Jaime Mantilla Anderson, Director General of Hoy, Ecuador; Veaceslav Perunov, Director of the Association of Independent Press Moldova, Sinha Ratnatunga, Editor-in-chief of The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka; Mikhel Reinsalu, CEO of Eesti Pävaleht, Estonia; and Nelson Sirotsky, President and CEO of Grupo RBS, Brazil.

The Paris-based WAN, the global organisation for the newspaper industry, defends and promotes press freedom and the professional and business interests of newspapers world-wide. Representing 18,000 newspapers, its membership includes 77 national newspaper associations, newspaper companies and individual newspaper executives in 102 countries, 12 news agencies and 11 regional and world-wide press groups.