The FPA EXECUTIVE Board
Ian Williams
Award-winning journalist Ian Williams is an author, writer and broadcaster who has been a member of the Foreign Press Association for over 20 years and has been its President since 2019. Born in Liverpool, Ian graduated from Liverpool University, despite being suspended for several years for protesting its investments in Apartheid South Africa. He has been covering international politics, business and finance for more than two decades and has reported from over sixty countries. He often appears on international radio and television, talking about geopolitical affairs. He has helped train journalists in countries such as India, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Morocco and the Caribbean, as well as in the United States.
His byline has appeared in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Scotsman, Financial Times, European, Observer, Australian, Independent, for which he was one of the founding writers, the New Statesman, the New York Observer, the Nation, Al Wasat, Al Hayat,, the South China Morning Post, and the Jamaica Gleaner, not to mention Pacific Islands Monthly. While President of the U.N. Correspondents’ Association in 1995 and 1996, he inaugurated the Annual UNCA Awards for best coverage of the United Nations.
Ian is also author of Tequila: A Global History (2015), The Alms Trade (1989 and 2008), Deserter: George Bush’s War on Veterans and his Own Past (2004), The UN for Beginners (1995), Rum, a Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of ’76 (2005), UNtold, The Real Story of the UN in Peace & War One World Books 2017 George Orwell: British & American Perspectives Palgrave 2015, Cablestitch: Vincent Cable and the Privatisation of the Royal Mail, CWU 2017.
PresidentCAmilla G. Hellman, MBE
TreasurerCamilla Hellman's career has been in transatlantic relations, undertaking projects both in Britain and the United States to further collaboration between the two countries. She works with the Luxury Channel as the New York Correspondent and is their Director of Marketing in the United States. She serves as a Director with Make Music New York. Additionally she serves as the President of the American-Scottish Foundation. She has returned to the Foreign Press Association executive committee after serving from 2015 through 2017.
Ulrike Howe
Board MemberUlrike Howe is a New York-based business journalist focusing on the North American fashion, retail and hospitality markets. She has been a member of the Foreign Press Association since 1987 when she first came to New York from Germany. Between 1995 and 1999 she was Editor-in-chief of Milan/Italy-based Sportswear International European Edition group before she returned to the US in 2000 as correspondent for Frankfurt-based TextilWirtschaft Magazine. Between 2017 and 2019 she also served as Managing Editor for the English language digital newsletter TheSpin, which combined top international fashion news with exclusive stories from TextilWirtschaft, which were translated into English for this purpose. She has also taught classes in fashion journalism as a guest lecturer at the Parsons School of Design. Ulrike graduated from Hochschule Niederrhein with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Apparel and Textiles and entered journalism as a trainee at Deutscher Fachverlag in Frankfurt. She is fluent in German, English and Italian.
Simon Erksine Locke
Board MemberUlrike Howe is a New York-based business journalist focusing on the North American fashion, retail and hospitality markets. She has been a member of the Foreign Press Association since 1987 when she first came to New York from Germany. Between 1995 and 1999 she was Editor-in-chief of Milan/Italy-based Sportswear International European Edition group before she returned to the US in 2000 as correspondent for Frankfurt-based TextilWirtschaft Magazine. Between 2017 and 2019 she also served as Managing Editor for the English language digital newsletter TheSpin, which combined top international fashion news with exclusive stories from TextilWirtschaft, which were translated into English for this purpose. She has also taught classes in fashion journalism as a guest lecturer at the Parsons School of Design. Ulrike graduated from Hochschule Niederrhein with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Apparel and Textiles and entered journalism as a trainee at Deutscher Fachverlag in Frankfurt. She is fluent in German, English and Italian.
Emilie Pons
Board MemberEmilie Pons was raised in France and educated in Paris, London and New York. As a culture reporter, she has worked in Canada, the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, France, Turkey and Lebanon. She produces radio stories and writes for PRI, Radio DW, CBC News and Chamber Music Magazine. Her work has also been featured on NPR, JazzTimes and she has written for AFP. She is at work on her first book, which is the biography of a late female legend from Mexico.
Cindy Fields
Board MemberCindy Fields, the President & Founder of Loyalty Alliance, Inc. is a Wall Street veteran with over thirty years of experience in financial services and wealth preservation for high-net-worth individuals and businesses. She is the co-creator of the incredible new site, Achieve Beyond!, which provides entrepreneurs and high achievers with a blogging platform and services they need to protect and grow their businesses. A native New Yorker, Cindy is a proud member of the Audit Committee of the National Arts Club, the Executive Committee of the Foreign Press Association, and the Board of Governors of the Foreign Press Foundation. She is also a member of The Penn Club in NYC.
Kristen Saloomey
Kristen Saloomey is an award-winning correspondent for the international news network Al Jazeera. An expert commentator on international affairs, as well as an advocate for journalists, her reporting exposed the United Nations as the source of Haiti’s cholera epidemic and was recognized by the UN Correspondents Association. She’s a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Fordham University.
Vice PresidentSarab Zavaleta
SecretarySarab Zavaleta has been a member of the FPA for 12 years. Educated in an English Boarding School in the Indian Himalayas, Sarab graduated from Barnard College with a degree in economics. She worked at the United Nations as an editor of film recordings and in the UNDP as an assistant for Middle East Projects. She also works as a photo-journalist with “Italian LifeStyle” Magazine, Black Tie Magazine in New York, and has been published a number of articles in Indian magazines and newspapers. Sarab has extended her career in the productions of feature films and productions for cable TV. She is a member of the New York Women in Film and Television Organization. She speaks 6 languages, travels extensively, and organizes media related events.
Nathalie Jimenez
Board MemberNathalie Jimenez is an Emmy-nominated field producer covering the Americas for BBC News—one of the youngest to do so for the broadcaster. Raised across continents and fluent in over five languages, she brings a global perspective to high-impact storytelling, leading multimedia productions on the ground from the Middle East to South America and West Africa.
Georgy Olisashvili
Board MemberGeorgy Olisashvili is an international journalist based in New York City. He began his professional career as a literary critic before moving into broadcast journalism.
Since 2008, he has worked with the Russian First Channel, preparing and airing more than 2,000 television reports from dozens of countries across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas.
He served as Head of the Channel’s Middle East Bureau, covering key developments in the region, including Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, the Arab Spring uprisings, armed conflicts, and political transitions in several countries. His fieldwork included coverage of revolutions, protests, and humanitarian crises under complex and high-risk conditions.
Since 2019, Olisashvili has served as Bureau Chief in the United States and Resident Correspondent at the United Nations in New York. In this capacity, he reports on American and international political, economic, and social affairs for a global audience.
David A. Andelman
Board MemberDavid A. Andelman is a journalist, author and executive director of The Red Lines Project. He publishes the Substack Andelman Unleashed, dealing with global affairs and media. His latest book is A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, and the History of Wars that Might Still Happen. By decree of President Emmanuel Macron, he was decorated chevalier in the Légion d’Honneur. He was twice awarded the Deadline Club Award for Best Opinion Writing for his CNN commentaries and his Reuters columns. Previously, he served as editor and publisher of World Policy Journal, an executive editor of Forbes, a domestic and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, as Paris correspondent for CBS News, and columnist for CNN Opinion. He has traveled through and reported from 94 countries. He is the author of five books including The Fourth World War and A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and member of the Century Association, Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard Club of New York, National Press Club. He is president of The Deadline Club and president-emeritus of the Overseas Press Club of America, The Silurians, and the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.
Anthony Morenzi
Board MemberAnthony Morenzi is a veteran of the political world and long time New Yorker. Anthony is a former Executive Director of the Foreign Press Association.