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Adam Tanswell

President

United Kingdom

Adam Tanswell is an award-winning journalist, producer, and media professional from London, England. Most recently, he served as Hollywood Correspondent for the UK movie magazine Total Film, but his prize-winning articles have been published in a variety of British publications, such as Radio Times, SFX, Metro, SciFiNow, OK!, Hello!, First News, and Digital Spy. On television, his filmed interviews have appeared on UK channels including MTV, Comedy Central, and ITV. He is credited as an Executive Producer of the 80th Golden Globe Awards. 
 
In Los Angeles, Adam is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the LA Press Club, and BAFTA LA. He is accredited with the MPA and has been a Golden Globe voter since 2015, serving as the Executive Secretary of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for many years. He’s also an active member of the NUJ (National Union of Journalists) in the UK and worked on the Preselection Committee for the Monte Carlo Television Festival’s Golden Nymph Awards.
 
Adam started his publishing career at The Daily Telegraph in London, after obtaining a top-honors university degree in Economics. Alongside his 25-year career in journalism, he also worked at the BBC in London as a press officer and media consultant.
 
In his spare time, Adam volunteers with CORE and other charitable organizations. As a volunteer, he has assisted at various LA Film Festivals, Operation Gratitude, and the LA Regional Food Bank.

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Miriam Spritzer

Treasurer

Brazil

Miriam Spritzer is an international correspondent for a multitude of Brazilian outlets. Based in New York, Miriam is known for her red carpet coverages and interviews with renowned personalities in entertainment and the creative fields. Her work has been published in renowned magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, L’Officiel and Marie Claire and has contributed to major broadcast and radio outlets including Rede Globo, Jovem Pan, Band and Record as well as the digital platforms Steal The Look and Metrópoles. In 2025, she was recognized on Worth Magazine’s Groundbreaking Women list.

Miriam has a degree in Business Administration with emphasis in Marketing by ESPM in Brazil where she received one of the highest academic awards for her undergraduate thesis on Branding and Experiential Marketing. Prior to her work in journalism, Miriam worked in corporate consulting, marketing and training in various market segments as well as non-profit organizations. Her career in journalism started in 2011 an on-air reporter for TVCOM, a local news channel for Grupo RBS and one of the largest media companies in Brazil. Additionally, she often contributed to Grupo RBS radio shows and newspapers. Throughout her life, Miriam has studied dance, music, vocal technique, acting and filmmaking. Due to her background in the performing arts, she specialized in culture and entertainment reporting and often covers stories on Broadway shows, film and television premieres, film festivals and art.

In addition to currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Golden Globe Foundation, she has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Foreign Correspondents in the United States for 4 years.

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Tim Kittleson

Secretary

Independent Board Member

Tim Kittleson is a senior consultant with Third Sector Company and a volunteer consultant with Executive Service Corps. His primary focus is board governance, board development, fund development, and executive mentoring for nonprofit organizations. His clients have included the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), Film Independent, and International Documentary Association. He was interim President/CEO of Cancer Support Community Los Angeles, Executive Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive and Executive Vice President of the International Film & Television Alliance (IFTA). He is a member of AMPAS, past member of the British Academy of Film & Television (BAFTA), and the UK Film Council, serving on the Los Angeles boards of the latter two organizations. He recently served on the board of Outfest, chairing the Governance Committee.

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Bianca Goodloe

Independent Board Member

Bianca Goodloe is the Managing Partner of Goodloe Law, which she founded in 2003. She is a member of the California Bar Association, New York Bar Association, and a Foreign Registered Advocate for the European Union. Having previously worked at top global law firms Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP and Linklaters (in Berlin, London and Prague), Goodloe maintains years of experience in film financing, entertainment law and intellectual property. She is also an adjunct professor at New York University and University of California Los Angeles.

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Vera Anderson

Mexico

Journalist and photographer Vera Anderson was born in California and has been a member of the HFPA, representing Mexico, since 1996. After starting out as an ad agency copywriter, she traveled to Baja, California in the late 80s to work with legendary director Sam Peckinpah, doing research and story development. Back in Los Angeles, Anderson began writing for the Los Angeles Reader and the Advocate, and building her photographic resume with exclusive editorial assignments including Jack Nicholson, Joan Baez and the Lakers. In 1994, at the recommendation of Variety chief Peter Bart, she was hired to launch the new monthly magazine Cine Premiere in Mexico, under the umbrella of the original U.S. edition of Premiere. In 1997, Anderson’s award-winning photo-documentary book “A Woman Like You – The Face of Domestic Violence” (Seal Press) was published, and in 1999 she produced the indie film, The Dogwalker, written and directed by Paul Duran. 2024 marks her 30th year with Cine Premiere as Hollywood correspondent, and her 28th year with the Golden Globes.

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Mia Farrell

Independent Board Member

Mia Farrell is a film publicist, strategist, and artist. She has always been interested in the intersection of film, art, social justice and humanitarian activities. Mia was recently the Director of the Hanson FilmTV Institute at the University of Arizona, where she was able to develop screenings and programs for Black, Latinx and Indigenous students to engage with film and attend festivals such as Sundance and SXSW. She has worked with clients in the U.S., UK, and Europe to provide strategic guidance for domestic and international film festivals, as well as project management and media relations for feature length, short narrative and documentary films and panels. She recently served as PR manager for the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival and Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, where she also served as the program manager for the LFF Critics Mentorship Programme. She has held roles at Lionsgate UK, Paramount Pictures, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Tribeca Film Festival, and has represented films at the Festival de Cannes and Berlinale. She also has worked on multiple philanthropic activities with Oxfam and Plan International.

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Ramzy Malouki

France, Tunisia

France-Tunisia
News Reporter, Producer & Media Consultant

Ramzy Malouki is an award-winning news reporter and producer based in Los Angeles. He currently serves as the News Bureau Chief for CNEWS, France’s leading 24-hour news channel and part of the Canal+ Group. Over the years, he has reported on more than 2,500 stories across the U.S., covering breaking news, politics, sports, and entertainment.

He is also the host and producer of L.A. Confidentiel, a weekly infotainment program offering a unique perspective on Hollywood. The show airs in France, Belgium, and French-speaking Africa on CINE+/OCS and the Canal+ platform. In addition, Ramzy acts as a consultant and field trainer for Tahiti Nui Television, the main public broadcaster in French Polynesia.

Born and raised in Tunisia, Ramzy began his career at age 17 as a DJ on Europe 2, a major French radio network. He transitioned one year later to television, hosting music shows on RTL-Télévision in Luxembourg and M6 in France.

After graduating from the French School of Journalism, he left medical school to join France 5, where he worked as a field reporter for the evening news and later as a correspondent for their weekly magazine in the Middle East.

Fluent in five languages, Ramzy is also a seasoned international MC, hosting global events from film festivals to world summits.

He shares his unique journey in a program called PLAN B, where he reflects on managing a dual path — balancing medical studies while having a media career — and how he now navigates between hard news and entertainment.

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Raffi Boghosian

Iraq

Raffi Boghosian is an experienced and accomplished Arabic producer, journalist, and television host. He has over a decade of experience in media, and he owns and operates the Hollywood-based Boghos Entertainment, a leading full-service production company servicing the broadcast industry in the Middle East and North African Region. Boghosian also serves as the Hollywood correspondent for the Dubai-based television network Al-Arabiya TV, and as a writer for Forbes Middle East and Arab News. Forbes Middle East is a monthly edition of Forbes for the Arab world, championing inspiring business journalism and in-depth interviews published in print in English and Arabic, with digital versions of both available worldwide. Saudi-based Arab News was established in 1975 and is widely considered the Middle East’s newspaper of record and the biggest English language daily in the Kingdom. In 2014, Boghosian became a member of the US Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Center and is also a member of the Critics’ Choice Association and the Motion Picture Association (MPA).

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Meher Tatna

India

Meher Tatna was born in Mumbai, India and came to the US on a scholarship to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts where she graduated cum laude with a degree in Economics. For the past 20 years she has freelanced for publications in Asia and her film criticism, essays and interviews have appeared in Vogue, Grazia, Femina and Elle in India, IMN in Singapore and Malaysia, and The New Paper in Singapore. Tatna has been a member of the HFPA since 2002, serving in every position in the Association’s administration including president from 2017 to 2019. During her presidency, the HFPA significantly increased philanthropic giving by expanding its film restoration funding and inaugurating its support of journalistic organizations with million-dollar grants announced at the Golden Globes. In 2018 she was invited to chair the Committee to Protect Journalists’ International Press Freedom Awards in New York with host Bill Whitaker of CBS News.

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Gregory P. Goeckner

Chief Executive Officer

Greg Goeckner manages the day-to-day operations of the Foundation and the implementation of its long-term strategic priorities. He previously was Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, where he played a key role in the HFPA’s philanthropic program. Prior to that, he was EVP and General Counsel of the Motion Picture Association of America and Special Counsel with O’Melveny & Myers. He graduated from Yale Law School and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of the California and District of Columbia Bars and a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).

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Sandra Cuneo

Grants Program Officer

Sandra Cuneo has long served as an advocate for social and economic justice issues in underrepresented communities. She has been the grants officer of the HFPA/Foundation since 2011. She has significant nonprofit experience as the executive director of several nonprofits with programs in the Los Angeles area. Sandra has also served on a variety of non-profit boards with a focus on these issues. Sandra has used her experience in nonprofit strategic and organizational planning, program development and implementation to guide these organizations in their strategic initiatives and expansion. She has also as a policy advisor for several national political leaders in social and economic justice issues.

Sandra was previously an attorney and graduated from Georgetown University Law Center. She lived, studied, and worked in Switzerland, Holland, Belgium and France for 12 years.

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Jason Little

Director of Multimedia, Archives and Facilities

Jason Little moved to Los Angeles from Buckinghamshire, England in 2013 following repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. He graduated with a first-class (honors) degree in Photography from Nottingham Trent University and spent three years working in event photography, photographing rock and blues stars of the 1960s including John Mayall, Bill Wyman, Buddy Guy and Georgie Fame. He also helped establish the Roald Dahl Museum archives in Great Missenden and was awarded the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award.

Jason began working for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2015, managing event photography, graphic design (programs, invitations, booklets, ads, logos, certificates, plaques) and video editing (for panel events in Los Angeles, Cannes and Venice). He curated historical images for the HFPA archive and worked with the legendary audio engineer Bernie Grundman to digitize early Golden Globe Awards radio broadcasts.

Jason has worked closely with hundreds of international charity organizations, news outlets and film festivals to produce engaging, educational content, often collaborating with teams overseas to manage complex, high-profile events.

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Katie Kornfield

Katie Kornfield Communications - Public Relations

Katie Kornfield
Katie Kornfield Communications
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