List of the members of the International Advisory Board of the African Press Organization
 (19/02/08)

1.     Hon. Dr. Gertrude I. MONGELLA – President of the Pan-African Parliament  (PAP) – Pretoria (South-Africa)

2.     M. Mahamat Saleh ANNADIF – Ambassador of the African Union near the European Union and the ACP Group of State in Brussels  – Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Chad – Former Chief of staff of the President of the Republic of Chad – Brussels (Kingdom of Belgium)

3.     M. Jiuma ABULKHER – Director-General of external information of the Libyan Arab Socialist People’s Jamahariya – Tripoli (Libya)

4.     M. Jim BOUMELHA – President of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) – Brussels (Kingdom of Belgium) 

5.     M. Babacar FALL – Director-General the Pan-African News Agency (PANA) – Dakar (Sénégal)

6.     M. Amadou Mahtar BA – President of AllAfrica Global Media (AllAfrica.com) – Washington (USA)

7.     M. Dominique GUIHOT – Director-General of Africa N°1 – Paris (France)

8.     M. Franck SALIN – Director of Afrik.com - Paris (France)

9.     Mme Ayoko MENSAH - Director of Africultures – Paris (France)

10.  Mme Heidi SINCLAIR – Director of communication The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Seattle (USA)

11.  Mme Lucie GRENNA – Head of the Unit of the Communications for Development of the World Bank – Washington (USA)

12.  Mme Aminata D. TRAORE – Former Minister of culture of the Republic of Mali – Author – Bamako (Mali)

13.  M. Patrick LUCAS - President of the African Committee of MEDEF International and PDG of Gras Savoye – Paris (France)

14.  Mme Frances Anne HARDIN – International Independent Consultant – Former Senior Press Officer of the International Monetary Funds (IMF) – Washington (USA)

15.  M. Jon LIDEN – Head of Communications for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – Genève (Switzerland)

16.  M. David BARNARD - Executive Director of the Southern African Non-Governmental Organisation Network (SANGONeT) – Gauteng (South-Africa)

17.  Maître Robert BOURGI – Lawyer – Paris (France)

18.  M. Nicholas BRAY -  Head of Media Relations at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – Paris (France)

19.  M. Normand LAUZON -  Director of the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) of the OECD

20.  M. Reed BRODY – Spokesperson of Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Brussels (Kingdom of Belgium)

21.  M. Jacques GODFRAIN – Former Minister of Cooperation of the French Republic  – Millau (France)

22.   Mme Cécile SPORTIS – Director of the World Food Program office in Paris
– Paris (France)

23.   M. Peter BALLANTYNE – Director of the Europe’s Forum on International Cooperation  (Euforic) – Maastricht  (Netherland)

24.  M. Samuel MIKENGA – Communications Manager of the NEPAD e-Africa Commission – Pretoria (South-Africa)

25.  M. Rigobert EMILE-FONGNI –
Communication officer of the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa (EMUWA – Ouagadougou (Burkina-Faso)

26.  M. Eric MGENDI – Regional Communications Co-ordinator of ActionAid International – Nairobi (Kenya)

27.   M. Joris ZYLBERMAN – Representative of Radio France Internationale (RFI) in Shanghai – Shanghai (China)

28.  M. Pascal DROUHAUD – Geopolitical Expert - Area manager for Latin America of Alstom – Paris (France)

29.  M. Frédéric GOMEZ - Paramedic – Tarbes (France)

30.   Mme Marie-Laure de BERGH - Programme Officer at the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) – Maastricht (Netherland)

31.   M. Damien AMADOU – Press Officer of  France 24 – Paris (France)

32.  M. Michel ALI – Informatic Consultant – Toulouse (France)

33.   M. Dapo LADIMEJI – Executive Member of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) – London (United-Kingdom)

34.  M. Blaise MISTLER – Head of International Relations of the Groupe Canal+ - Forme adviser to the Prime-Minister of the French Republic - Paris (France)

35.   Mme Sarah BEL – Communication officer of the Technical Centre for Rural and Agricultural Cooperation (CTA) – Wageningen
(Pays-Bas)

36.   Mme Lucine HAPI – Program Co-ordinator  of Avenir Nepad International UK – Londres (Royaume-Uni)

37.  M. Mathieu ROCHAT – Director-General of Weboconference – Sao-Paulo (Brésil)

38. M. Ahmedou OULD-ABDALLAH - Special Representative of the United -Nations for Somalia – Former Minister of Foreign affairs of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania