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New chair of the World Press Photo Foundat

World Press Photo Foundation appointing new chair

The World Press Photo Foundation has appointed Janne Nijman as the new chair of its Supervisory Board and added a new Supervisory Board member.

Janne Nijman will replace Marlou Banning, who remains on the board as treasurer. Janne Nijman is chairperson of the Executive Board of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague, and its academic director. She is a professor of History and Theory of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam, and also a professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Nijman is a member of several boards including peace organisation PAX for Peace, the think-tank International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, and currently serves on the international jury for the UCLG Peace Prize.

A member was also added to the Supervisory Board, Jamila Aanzi who is an independent international speaker, trainer in leadership and empowerment, and an advocate for gender-equality and diversity and inclusion. She was the Dutch women’s representative to the United Nations in 2017.
The World Press Photo Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization, based in Amsterdam and founded 60 years ago, with the mission to guide visual journalists, storytellers, and audiences around the world – even though these two appointments seem too country-specific.
It has a two tier board structure, with the Supervisory Board supervising the strategy and policy of the Executive Board and the general course of affairs of the organization and its stakeholders. An International Advisory Committee advises the foundation on how to stay globally relevant.

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