[vc_row][vc_column][penci_container el_width=”penci-container” ctsidebar_mb=”con_sb2_sb1″][penci_column width=”11″][penci_fancy_heading title=”Editorial board ensures newspaper’s independence” block_id=”penci_fancy_heading-1576577962428″][/penci_fancy_heading][/penci_column][/penci_container][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][penci_container el_width=”penci-container” ctsidebar_mb=”con_sb2_sb1″][penci_column width=”11″][penci_fancy_heading _text_align=”left” subtitle_tag=”h4″ title=”” title_tag=”h4″ block_id=”penci_fancy_heading-1576581537412″ subtitle=”The members of the Cyprus Mail editorial board are:”][/penci_fancy_heading][/penci_column][/penci_container][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][penci_container el_width=”penci-container” ctsidebar_mb=”con_sb2_sb1″ container_layout=”13_23″][penci_column width=”1/3″ order=”1″][vc_single_image image=”282937″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/penci_column][penci_column width=”2/3″ order=”2″][vc_column_text]Roelf Meyer is Director in Transformation Initiative. He was the chief negotiator of the South African government in the negotiations to end apartheid, held several ministerial posts in FW De klerk’s government and served as Minister of Constitutional Development and Provincial Affairs in President Nelson Mandela’s national unity government.[/vc_column_text][/penci_column][/penci_container][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][penci_container el_width=”penci-container” ctsidebar_mb=”con_sb2_sb1″ container_layout=”13_23″][penci_column width=”1/3″ order=”1″][vc_single_image image=”283028″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/penci_column][penci_column width=”2/3″ order=”2″][vc_column_text]Giorgos Nicolaou is a retired Judge of European Court of Human Rights and of the Cyprus Supreme Court. Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London. Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, at The Hague.[/vc_column_text][/penci_column][/penci_container][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][penci_container el_width=”penci-container” ctsidebar_mb=”con_sb2_sb1″ container_layout=”13_23″][penci_column width=”1/3″ order=”1″][vc_single_image image=”282939″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/penci_column][penci_column width=”2/3″ order=”2″][vc_column_text]Elie Hatem is a Barrister-at-Law at the International Criminal Court at The Hague and at the Paris Bar Association. He is also Professor of International relations and Law and a former advisor of the late Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a former UN Secretary-General.[/vc_column_text][/penci_column][/penci_container][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][penci_container el_width=”penci-container” ctsidebar_mb=”con_sb2_sb1″ container_layout=”13_23″][penci_column width=”1/3″ order=”1″][vc_single_image image=”282945″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/penci_column][penci_column width=”2/3″ order=”2″][vc_column_text]Kyriacos Iacovides is the managing editor of the Cyprus Mail, which he had been in charge of since 1988. He writes a weekly column and is the paper’s main Op/Ed writer.[/vc_column_text][/penci_column][/penci_container][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row]