Board Members
| Allan Dodds Frank, President |
Allan Dodds Frank, is a contributor to The Daily Beast, the website founded by Tina Brown. He has been a television correspondent for ABC News, CNN and Bloomberg. Frank has been an Overseas Press Club member since 1985, most recently served as second vice president and previously OPC treasurer, governor, chairman of the OPC Awards Committee and President of the Overseas Press Club Foundation, where he serves on the board and executive committee. |
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| Dorinda Elliott, Active Board |
Dorinda Elliott is a Deputy Editor at Condé Nast Traveler, where she edits, writes, and helps spearhead the magazine’s coverage of ethical travel and social responsibility and the travel industry. She produces a monthly interview with global citizens, from Madeline Albright on America’s role in the world to Muhammad Yunus on the fight against poverty. |
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| Kathleen Hunt, Associate |
Kathleen Hunt is a former foreign correspondent now serving as the United Nations Representative for CARE International, the global humanitarian organization working in 70 countries. At the UN, Hunt frequently briefs members of the Security Council on major humanitarian crises, and works closely with UN correspondents on these issues. |
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| Jane Ciabattari, Secretary |
As a longtime contributing editor to Parade magazine, Jane Ciabattari reported from Brussels, Havana, Hong Kong, London, Marrakesh, Paris, Prague and Rome. She currently serves as president of the National Book Critics Circle (and blogs for Critical Mass). Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, the Guardian online, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and the Columbia Journalism Review. |
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| Jacqueline Albert-Simon, Treasurer |
Editor and U.S. Bureau Chief of Politique Internationale since 1985, Jacqueline Albert-Simon has spent more than two decades reporting, analyzing and agonizing over American foreign policy for French and other European readers of PI. |
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| George de Lama, Active Alternate |
George de Lama is External Relations Advisor at the Inter-American Development Bank. He was Managing Editor for News at the Chicago Tribune; overseeing the paper’s news coverage. During the years in which he oversaw international news, the Tribune won a Pulitzer for International Reporting and six OPC awards. He covered the Iran-Contra scandal, the reunification of Germany, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and the Middle East peace process. |
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| Jim Laurie, Active Board |
Jim Laurie has been an international journalist and broadcaster for 36 years, 26 of those years in Asia. Based in Hong Kong, Laurie is head of a television consultancy and documentary production firm, Focus Asia Productions Ltd. He is also director of the broadcasting program at the University of Hong Kong Journalism and Media Studies Centre. |
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| Marcus Mabry, Second Vice President |
Marcus Mabry is International Business Editor of The New York Times, directing and editing international coverage in Business Day, and managing its corps of foreign correspondents and foreign contributors. Mabry came to the Times in July 2007 from Newsweek, where he had spent 19 years – the past five as Chief of Correspondents with responsibility for managing and deploying Newsweek’s domestic and international correspondents and stringers. |
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| Michael Serrill, Third Vice President |
Michael Serrill has been an OPC member for 15 years and editor of Dateline, the magazine distributed in conjunction with the annual dinner, for a decade. He has served as an OPC vice president, secretary and twice as a member of the Board of Governors. |
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| Calvin Sims, Active Board |
Currently Program Officer for News Media at the Ford Foundation, Calvin Sims began his journalism career at The New York Times as a reporter for its Science Times section in August 1985. He has reported for the Times’ business, metro and national desks. While at The Times, Sims was host of “The Conversation,” a NYTimes.com television program that featured in-depth interviews with prominent personalities in a variety of social, political and cultural fields... |
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