Sarah Stewart elected as AFP's marketing director for Asia-Pacific region

Sarah Stewart has been elected as AFP's new sales and marketing director for the Asia-Pacific region by the news agency's sales and marketing department. Stewart, who was AFP's Dubai and Gulf bureau chief since 2019, succeeds Marc Lavine in this position, who moves to the director for the North American region role.

Stewart started her career at AFP as a journalist at the Sydney bureau in 1995 and has previously held various positions at AFP's Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Hong Kong, where she was deputy desk chief, and then desk chief and deputy regional editor-in-chief.