Board Members and Officers

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Officers

Clive MilnerNMC Chairman

Independent Board Member
(CMA Associates Ltd)

Clive Milner is a news industry specialist consultant, having been the Chief Operating Officer of News International. He has held many senior roles in the industry, including Chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association, Executive Committee Member of ENPA, and Board Director of Pressbof (the Press Board of Finance), in addition to his long career within News International spanning more than 30 years. He has been Chairman of the NMC since 2010 and operates through his consultancy CMA Associates Ltd.

Angela Mills Wade

Angela Mills WadeNMC Vice-Chair

NMC Board Member
(Executive Director at European Publishers Council)

Angela Mills Wade has been the Executive Director of the European Publishers’ Council since 1991. She is senior consultant specialising in media, advertising, data and internet competition issues with over 25 years’ experience of working with companies, trade associations, lobby groups and other umbrella organisations at the European level. Angela was included on Politico’s ranking of ‘Women who shape Brussels in 2017’.

Michael Giarrusso

Michael GiarrussoNMC Vice-Chair

NMC Board Member
(Global Head of Sport at Associated Press)

NMC Board Member
Michael is Global Sports Editor at Associated Press and oversees AP’s sports operations and manage more than 100 journalists covering events around the world.

Kate TehNMC Secretary

NMC Director and NMC Board Member
(Group Legal Director at Telegraph Media Group)

Kate Teh is an international lawyer with almost thirty years’ experience across a diverse range of specialised fields including news media, copyright and IP, digital and data protection, sports law, news industry regulatory aspects – as well as corporate, mergers and acquisitions and general commercial law. She worked in private practice in Australia, Malaysia, Japan, China and England, before her appointment as Group Legal Director at TMG in 2008. As NMC Secretary she takes the lead on legal and compliance issues and brings particular expertise of sporting organisations, including the Sydney, Beijing and London Olympic games, and the UK Premier League.

Christophe Walter-Petit

Christophe Walter-PetitNMC Treasurer

NMC Director and NMC Board Member
(General Counsel at Agence France-Presse)

Christophe Walter-Petit has been AFP’s lead representative on the NMC for five years and in addition to the officer position of NMC Treasurer, he is AFP’s General Counsel. Since joining AFP in 2012 Mr Walter-Petit has ensured that AFP is at the forefront of battles to ensure that AFP and all fellow NMC members are able to create, use and distribute independent news material at major organised events, such sports matches and tournaments, political gatherings, entertainment shows etc.

Andrew MogerNMC Executive Director

Independent Board Member and NMC Director

As a career journalist and business manager, Andrew Moger has been involved in the news industry for more than 35 years. On behalf of NMC Members – news publishers and major news agencies- his role is to engage with sports federations and leagues as well as clubs and their commercial partners, and public policymakers to seek recognition of the importance and value of news content and news business freedoms. He has been based in the Middle East for nearly five years and travels widely to support Members and to speak at conferences.

Board Members

Stephen MundayNMC Board Member

(Managing Director, PA Images/Press Association Group)

Stephen, as Managing Director of PA Images, is responsible for managing and growing one of the largest and prestigious images libraries in the UK. He was previously at Getty Images for over twenty years, including roles as Vice President of Commercial Operations and Vice President of Global Editorial Product Development.

Doug WillsNMC Board Member

(Managing Editor at ESI Media, UK)

Doug is Managing Editor of the London Evening Standard and The Independent. His role involves working closely with all editorial executives and dealing daily with circulation, advertising and production directors co-ordinating the complex operation of producing daily newspapers and their editorial digital channels.

Ken MainardisNMC Board Member

(Getty Images)

As Senior Vice President, Editorial at Getty Images, Ken is responsible for the global Getty Images Sport, Entertainment, News, and Archival product lines. He oversees the business’ coverage of over 160,000 news, sports and entertainment events every year. Ken began his career in 1995 as an assignments editor for the Reuters News Agency in their London bureau, before taking on the role of Global Sports Editor for Reuters Pictures in 2000.

Robert HahnNMC Board Member

(Guardian Media Group)

Robert is Rights & Licensing Director at Guardian News & Media and has 20 years’ experience in content acquisition, commercial distribution and operations support & implementation.

Georgia-Kate Schubert

Georgia-Kate SchubertNMC Board Member

(News Corp Australia)

Georgia-Kate is Head of Policy and Government Affairs at News Ltd in Australia.

David McLeanNMC Board Member

(News UK)

David is General Manager News Productions at News UK publishers of The Sun, The Times and Sunday Times. David holds responsibility for News UK’s group wide content deals and led the negotiation for News UK’s significant sports rights portfolio including deals spanning from The Premier League, UEFA to the ECB.

Aidan McGurranNMC Board Member

(Managing Editor at Mirror Group)

Aidan is the Managing Editor at Mirror Group. He joined the paper in May 1997 has has been responsible for some of the title’s biggest newsroom stories. As a reporter he covered the Soham murders and Suffolk Strangler case as well as exposing a major security lapse at Stansted Airport in the wake of 9/11.

Alex BannisterNMC Board Member

(Group Managing Editor, DMG Media)

Declan NiallNMC Board Member

(Thompson Reuters)

Declan is the Editorial Logistics Manager at Thompson Reuters. He is responsible for overseeing Reuters logistics at all major sporting and news events, including negotiating T&Cs with the rights owners. He has worked in the media for over 20 years in technical and operational roles.

Associate Members

Matthias MahnNMC Associate Member

(Deutsche Presse-Agentur)

Linda GoughNMC Associate Member

(Fairfax Australia)

Linda Gough has deep expertise in media, data and technology, intellectual property protection, commercialisation and litigation. Her experience spans technology and telecommunications industries and working with globally recognised brands. As a senior corporate/commercial lawyer with leadership and governance roles she has been a strategic legal advisor to executives, senior management and board members; and expert manager of teams, cross-jurisdictional legal issues and global stakeholders. She is also a former freelance journalist and arts producer.

Angela Mills Wade

Angela Mills WadeNMC Vice-Chair

NMC Board Member
(Executive Director at European Publishers Council)

Angela Mills Wade has been the Executive Director of the European Publishers’ Council since 1991. She is senior consultant specialising in media, advertising, data and internet competition issues with over 25 years’ experience of working with companies, trade associations, lobby groups and other umbrella organisations at the European level. Angela was included on Politico’s ranking of ‘Women who shape Brussels in 2017’.

Gernot HenselNMC Associate Member

(European Pressphoto Agency)

Emma CowdroyNMC Associate Member

(General Counsel at Australian Associated Press)

Emma joined AAP in 2002 after working with legal firms in media, telecommunications and commercial law. Appointed General Counsel late that year, Emma has become an integral part of the agency’s leadership team. She has represented AAP in various forums, including Australia’s Right to Know, the Senate Inquiry into Sports News Reporting (leading to the establishment of the Code of Practice for Sports News Reporting), the Senate Inquiry into Evidence Amendment (Journalists’ Privilege) Bill (resulting in the Journalists’ Shield Laws) and the Independent Inquiry into Media and Media Regulation. Emma graduated with BA/LLB (Hons) from Sydney University in 1997.

Alan EdmundsNMC Associate Member

(Trinity Mirror plc Regionals)

Mark StevensNMC Associate Member

(Fairfax New Zealand)

Secretariat

Liana DigkaNMC Public Affairs Advisor

In charge of day-to-day public affairs initiatives, Liana Digka works out of Brussels where she connects with numerous public policymakers and institutions there – as well as further afield. She holds a BA in Political Science and two Master’s degrees, one in European Studies and Diplomacy from the University of Macedonia (Greece), and the other one in Media and Communication from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). She speaks Greek, English, Italian and French. Liana also shares Secretariat responsibilities.

Nathan StewartNMC Communications Officer

Nathan Stewart takes responsibility for internal and external output for the NMC including website, newsletters and other Member information. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he holds a MA (Hons) in Politics and French from the University of Glasgow and a Masters in Communications from Sciences Po Paris where he focused on digital media and political communications. He previously worked on communications for international organisations and co-operations. Nathan also shares Secretariat responsibilities.