Editor-in-Chief

From 1990 until 1996, Miren Gutiérrez was based in Hong Kong as an EFE correspondent, covering the South East Asia, Korea and Pacific region, in charge of a group of stringers and regular contributors. The Spanish news agency EFE ranks amongst the world's five largest international news agencies.

She then spent five years in Panama in charge of the business section of La Prensa, the Panamanian newspaper of record. Miren led a team of specialised journalists and editors; she trained reporters and wrote, coordinated or edited investigative business stories. Several of these stories were award-winners and had national as well as international impact.

A year of free-lancing in New York followed, writing for different media, such as El País, The Nation, UPI, Gatopardo and Offshore Alert (a Miami-based financial bulletin focused on money laundering). She covered the Sep. 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and their aftermath for El País, Spain's main daily.

Miren worked as a consultant for the Media Development Loan Fund, as a researcher for Transparency International, and as a journalist for Televisión Española and El Mundo. She holds a Masters of Arts and a Masters Degree in Journalism, and a degree in Musicology.

She joined IPS as editor-in-chief in January 2003.
E-mail: mgutierrez@ips.org

Diana Cariboni was born in Argentina in 1962 and has lived in Uruguay since 1984.
She has been the chief editor of IPS Latin America since March 2003. Diana joined the agency in 2001 as a translator/editor from English into Spanish. Shortly afterwards, she took on web editor responsibilities for ipsnoticias.net. In 2002, she joined the Tierramérica team, a publication on environment and development, as editorial coordinator.

Diana began her career as a journalist in 1992 working for various media in Uruguay, such as El Observador and El País newspapers, and Sarandí and Setiembre FM radio stations. Besides specialising in technology, science, and public health, she has written research articles on these subjects.

Diana also worked as a writer on international politics, economy and environment for the Third World Institute publications (a subsidiary of the Third World Network). She is married and the mother of five children.
E-mail: dcariboni@ipslatam.net

Sanjay Suri has been with IPS since May 2002 as editor for the Euro-Mediterranean region and as the London correspondent. Before joining IPS, he was Europe editor for Indo-Asian News Service. He covered developments in the United States following Sep. 11 and Asia-related developments in Europe. Earlier he was political correspondent, chief reporter and acting chief sub-editor with Indian Express in New Delhi. His assignments included coverage of terrorism, Operation Bluestar, the assassination of the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and several human rights stories such as detention of children in prisons and dowry deaths.

Sanjay holds an M.A. in English literature from the University of Delhi, M.Sc in social and organisational psychology from the London School of Economics, and did media studies at Stanford University.
E-Mail: ssuri@ipsnews.net

Ranjit Devraj has been IPS correspondent in India since 1998. Prior to that he was a special correspondent with the United News of India news agency.
Assignments for UNI included development of the agency's overseas operations particulary in the Gulf region. He counts two years in the trenches (1989-1990) covering the violent Gorkha autonomy movement in the Darjeeling Hills as most valuable in a career with varied journalistic experience.

E-Mail: ranjit@ipsnews.net

Katherine Stapp (Regional Editor) has written for IPS since 1999. Based in New York City, her special interests include environment and public health issues..
E-Mail: ipsnoram@ipsnews.net