Board Members

David A. Andelman, President

David A. Andelman is Editor of World Policy Journal. Previously he served as Executive Editor of Forbes.com, the world’s largest business and financial website. Earlier, he was a domestic and foreign correspondent for The New York Times in various posts in New York and Washington, Southeast Asia bureau chief, based in Bangkok, then East European bureau chief, based in Belgrade. He then moved to CBS News where he served for seven years as a Paris...

David A. Andelman
Marcus Mabry, First Vice President

Marcus Mabry is editor-at-large at International Herald Tribune. He was associate National Editor of The New York Times. Until April 2010, he was International Business Editor of the Times. Before coming to the Times in 2007, Marcus spent nearly 20 years at Newsweek, as a correspondent in Paris, Johannesburg and Washington, and as an editor in New York, covering, at various times, Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle...

Marcus Mabry
Michael Serrill, Second Vice President

Michael Serrill has been an OPC member for 17 years and Editor of Dateline, the magazine distributed in conjunction with the annual dinner, for more than a decade. He has served as an OPC Vice President, Secretary and twice as a member of the Board of Governors.

Michael Serrill
Arlene Getz, Third Vice President

Arlene Getz is Editor in Charge, Media at Thomson Reuters in New York. Prior to this position she was Editorial Director for Newsweek’s Worldwide Special Editions.

Arlene Getz
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. She has been a frequent guest commentator on French and Canadian TV, guest journalist for Figaro, La Vie Francaise, French and American Vogue, and from 1984 to 1992 a contributor to Harper’s Magazine.

Jacqueline Albert-Simon
Jane Ciabattari, Secretary

As a long-time contributing editor to Parade magazine, Jane Ciabattari reported from Brussels, Havana, Hong Kong, London, Marrakesh, Paris, Prague, Rome and Shanghai.

Jane Ciabattari
Ron Allen, Active Board

Ron Allen is an NBC News correspondent based in New York. His reports appear on “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams,” “Today,” and MSNBC. He joined NBC News in 1996, and since then has covered a wide range of national and international stories, most recently the historic 2008 U.S. Presidential election campaign.

Ron Allen
Rebecca Blumenstein, Active Board

Rebecca Blumenstein is Page One Editor at The Wall Street Journal. She had served as Deputy Managing Editor and the International Editor of The Wall Street Journal and had been Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal Online. Previously, Blumenstein was the China Bureau Chief.

Rebecca Blumenstein
Jonathan Dahl, Active Board

Jonathan Dahl is a 27-year veteran of The Wall Street Journal, where he has served as a reporter, columnist and section editor. For the past five years, he has been editor in chief of SmartMoney, the Wall Street Journal's personal finance magazine. Both the magazine and its website have won more than a dozen awards during Dahl's tenure.

Jonathan Dahl
Nikhil Deogun, Active Board

Nik Deogun is Senior Vice President at CNBC. He joined CNBC in 2010 as Managing Editor overseeing the network’s on-air content during “Business Day” programming. Nik comes to CNBC from The Wall Street Journal, where he was the Deputy Managing Editor, a position he has held since July 2008.

Nikhil Deogun