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GUARDIAN MEDIA LIMITED AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES ANNUAL REPORT 2022 23BOARD OF DIRECTORSMr. Davan Maharaj is a Non-Executive Director since 2017. He is an internationally-renowned journalist who served as editor-in-chief and publisher of the Los Angeles Times. %u00a0Under his leadership, The Times won five Pulitzer Prizes, including the prestigious gold medal for public service. As publisher, he oversaw a company with more than US$400 million in revenue.%u00a0 Maharaj began his journalism career in Trinidad and Tobago, where he won Caribbean Journalist of The%u00a0Year prize and top awards for investigative journalism. At The Times, Maharaj won numerous awards for his investigation of a Southern California probate lawyer who wrote wills and trusts that bequeathed to himself millions of dollars of his clients%u2019 property. The story resulted in changes in California%u2019s probate laws. His series, Living On Pennies, published during his tenure as the paper%u2019s Nairobi bureau chief, won the Ernie Pyle Award for Feature Writing. As editor-inchief, Maharaj and his team worked with an acclaimed New York digital firm to redesign%u00a0latimes.com, then one of the world%u2019s largest responsive news websites ever built. Maharaj has a bachelor%u2019s degree from the University of Tennessee, a master%u2019s degree from Yale Law School, and recently was a fellow at Harvard University%u2019s Kennedy School. Maharaj has an honorary doctor of letters (D. Litt) degree from the University of the West Indies.Professor Antoine serves as a Non-Executive Director. Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine is the Principal of the UWI, St. Augustine, and Professor of Labour Law and Offshore Financial Law. She holds a doctorate in law from Oxford, LLM from Cambridge and the LLB from the UWI. Antoine is an attorney, award winning scholar and author, international consultant, temporary Court of Appeal judge and activist. She was elected President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Washington, the only person from Trinidad and Tobago. She held OAS Rapporteurships for Persons of African Descent and Indigenous Peoples and was Head of the OAS Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Unit. She was CARICOM Chair on HIV, Migration and the CARICOM Regional Commission on Marijuana. She is the President of the Family Planning Association, a Cambridge Fellow, a member of Trinidad & Tobago%u2019s Industrial Relations Advisory Committee, an Honorary Fellow of the International Society for Trust Practitioners (STEP), the only Caribbean person.The historic twice winner of Vice Chancellor%u2019s Award of Excellence, for Research, then for Public Service, Antoine has published 15 books and numerous scholarly articles. She was honoured by UWI Cave Hill Campus as an %u2018%u2019Outstanding Alumnus%u2019(2018) and as an Eminent Jurist- Pioneering Caribbean Woman by the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2021. She served as Consultant to all of the governments in the Caribbean, UK, Venezuela, USA and Canada, the judiciary and international organizations, including the EU, OAS, IADB, World Bank, CDB, CARICOM, UNDP, OECS, UNICEF, ILO, UNIFEM, CAREC, PANCAP, UNAIDS, UNDCP, and ECLAC, drafting legislation and authoring influential, often path-breaking Policy Reports on several varied issues prioritizing Caribbean legal development. She is described by governments and others as the %u201cforemost labour law expert in Labour Law in the region,%u201d the %u201cleading%u201d authority in the region in International Financial Law and HIV law and a %u2018%u2019change agent%u2019%u2019. Antoine is committed to development within the framework of human rights. She enjoys painting, gardening and is a trained classical singer.DAVAN MAHARAJPosition :%u2022 Independent%u2022 Non-ExecutiveDirectorAppointment :2017Age : 60Nationality :American CitizenROSE-MARIE BELLE ANTOINEPosition :%u2022 Independent%u2022 Non-ExecutiveDirectorAppointment :2023Age : 60Nationality :Trinidad & Tobago Citizen