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President
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Principal Members of the Board of Governors
Foreign Press Foundation
Jeff Oppenheim
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Since August 2006, Australian-born journalist Hollie McKay has been an investigative and international reporter for Fox News Digital, with a specialized focus on warfare and terrorism. Hollie has worked on the front lines of several major conflicts, humanitarian and diplomatic crises across the world ranging from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Jordan, Israel/Palestine, Russia, and Ukraine. Her globally-spanned coverage has included exclusive and detailed interviews with numerous captured ISIS and Taliban terrorists, as well as high-ranking government, military intelligence officials from all sides of the conflict. She has spent time with newly-emerged female military units and conducted extensive interviews with survivors of torture, sex slavery and forced child jihadist training recruits, refugees and internally-displaced people to communicate the complexities of such catastrophes on local populations. Before becoming a journalist, Hollie worked professionally as a ballet dancer.
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Simon Locke
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Simon Erskine Locke, Founder & CEO of CommunicationsMatch, writes extensively on media and communications issues for communications media outlets and his company’s Insights Blog. During his more than decade long engagement with the FPA, he has served in various roles including as a past Vice President. During a long Corporate Communications career he headed communications functions at major financial institutions.
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Anthony Morenzi
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A veteran of the political world and long time New Yorker. Anthony Morenzi is a former Executive Director of the Foreign Press Association.
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Camilla Hellman
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Camilla 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.
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Alibe Hamacher
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Experienced public affair professional with expertise in nonprofit management, event executions, research, and campaign development. Her areas of expertise include; global human rights, education, diversity and inclusion, and criminal justice.
Recognized for her extraordinary talents in innovating effective programs while forging alliances with influencers from nonprofits, international organizations, government agencies, cultural entities, and many others. She has created and moderated many public forums focused on violations of human rights, immigration, migration, the Puerto Rican debt crisis, and its decolonization, the United Nations Security Council's role in zones of conflict. During her time with IFMCCADI, she has become the chief liaison between the organization and the United Nations collaborating with the Department of Global Communications (UN-DGC) and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and affiliated NGO's. A native of Chile, she has traveled extensively throughout South America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe. She is bilingual (Spanish/English) and trained in public speaking and media presentation. |