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World Communication Forum in Davos announces new committee and Co-Chairs After the success of the 6th edition of the World Communication Forum in Davos in March the international coordinating committee of the forum for 2015/2016 has been announced. The committee consists of communications professionals from 18 countries: Austria, UK, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Ukraine, Mexico, Bulgaria, Russia, Malaysia, USA, Jordan, India, and China. Once the committee was formed, they elected four co-chairs from among the committee members to take a leadership role in the work of the committee.

Members of the 6th WCFDavos Coordinating Committee are: • Maxim Behar, Co-Chair of WCFDavos Committee, Chair of Hill+Knowlton Strategies (CZ), CEO & Board Chairman of M3 Communications Group, Bulgaria • Gabor Hegyi, Co-Chair of WCFDavos Committee, Founding Managing Director of Capital Communications, Hungary • Yogesh Joshi, Co-Chair of WCFDavos Committee, President of the Association of Business Communicators of India • Faith Muthambi, Co-Chair of WCFDavos Committee, Minister of Communications of the Republic of South Africa • Kara Alaimo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Relations, Hofstra University, USA • Natalia Belenko, Founder of TOP Communication GmbH, Russia • Stuart Bruce, Digital Corporate Communications, Online PR trainer and consultant, UK • Colin Byrne, Chief Executive Officer of Weber Shandwick for UK & Europe, UK • Gianni Catalfamo, Web 2.0 evangelist, Founder of cc:catalfamo, Italy • Zhao Dali, Executive Vice President& Secretary General of China International Public Relations Association, China • Lorena Carreño Díaz, Vice President of the Mexican Communication & Marketing Industry Confederation, Mexico • Yanina Dubeykovskaya, of WCFDavos Committee, CEO of Тоp Communications LLC, Russia • Scott Fahlman, Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • James Gillies, Head of the Communications Group at CERN, Switzerland • Paul Holmes, Founder and CEO of The Holmes Report and the SABRE awards, USA • Guntram Kaiser, Chief Executive Officer of KaiserCommunication GmbH, Germany • Svetlana Kananykhina, CEO of Event Life Communication, WCF Event Director, Russia • Tanuja Kehar, Vice President, Corporate Communications at Unitech, India • Alfred Koblinger, CEO of BBDO Holding, Austria • Solly Moeng, Head of Corporate Communications at Woolworths, SA, Former President of PRISA, South Africa • Rana Nejem, Founding Director of YARNU, Jordan • Luis Ramos, Head of Communications, ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG, Portugal • Dymitr Romanowski, Co-founder and CEO of The Story digital branding agency, Poland -1-

• Eva Snijders, Founding Partner of Visual Chemistry,Spain • Nurul Ashiqin Shamsuri, Program Director, Information and Communication Secretariat, Wanita UMNO, Malaysia, and Head of Program at UCSI University, Malaysia • Saurabh Uboweja, Founder, CEO & Director Brand Strategy at Brands of Desire, India • Iryna Zolotarevych, Head of PR&GR Services at AGAMA Communications, Ukraine • Sergey Zverev, Founder and President of CROS PR & Public Affairs, Russia Full biographies of the committee members can be found at: www.forumdavos.com/committee Scott Fahlman, who helped to coordinate the election of the committee co-chairs shared: "The members of this committee have already been active participants in past editions of the Forum, and have agreed to lend their time and expertise in helping to put together exciting programs for our future meetings and in helping to involve new participants in all parts of the world and all segments of the communications community: public relations, advertising, spokespeople for government organizations, industry, regional development agencies, and so on.”

Yanina Dubeykovskaya, Content Director of World Communication Forum in Davos, added: “The committee consists of communicators whose global expertise is a guarantee for top content and high professional level of the speakers at WCFDavos 2016. I am proud that we have managed to put together this outstanding committee.”

The next edition of World Communication Forum in Davos will be held on 8-9 March in Davos Congress Centre, Switzerland.

The first edition of World Communication Forum in Davos was held in 2010. WCF-Davos is focused on communications and their role in business, media, society, and politics. Each year the two-day conference covers important topics within the professional communications community and outlines the newest tendencies in the industry. For full information about WCF-Davos, please visit www.forumdavos.com Contacts: Maria Aladzhova, PR Manager World Communication Forum in Davos PR | Media Relations | Social Media Official profiles: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/WorldCommForumDavos Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WorldCommForum YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/forumdavoscom

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