2013 World Car Awards - Steering Committee

The awards are administered by a non-profit association, under the guidance of a Steering Committee of pre-eminent automotive journalists from Asia, Europe, and North America. Peter Lyon (Japan) and Matt Davis (Italy) are the co-chairs; John McCormick (USA), Jens Meiners (Germany), Mike Rutherford (U.K.), Eddie Alterman (USA), and Gerry Malloy (Canada) are the directors. There is no affiliation with, nor are the awards in any way influenced by any publication, auto show, automaker, or other commercial enterprise.
	EDDIE ALTERMAN Director UNITED STATES	Editor-in-chief, Car and Driver magazine

	MATT DAVIS Co-chair INTERNATIONAL	Italy-based correspondent for: USA - Autoblog/AOL autos, European Car; UK - Auto Express, Sunday Times, UKIP Media; ITALY - OmniAuto; SWEDEN - Expressen Motor; JAPAN - Genroq, Wynn Las Vegas, Auto Exp
	So far as auto enthusiast writing goes, Matt Davis remains the only American correspondent living and working in Europe. He contributes regularly to Autoblog in the United States (www.autoblog.com) as European Editor and can count some 20 additional publications around the world as frequent clients. He has also written books on various car subjects, particularly in the areas of design and designers. He calls northern Italy home.
	PETER LYON Co-chair INTERNATIONAL	Japan-based contributor Motor Trend (US), Quattroruote (It), Auto Bild (Ger), Herald Sun (Aus), Auto Express (UK), Evo (UK), Motor (Aus), Holiday Auto (Jpn), Car (SAf)
	Entering his 24th year reporting from Japan, Australian-born journalist Peter Lyon contributes to more than a dozen publications worldwide, including America's Edmunds Insideline, Britain's Auto Express, Italy's Quattroruote and Germany's Auto Bild. As a fluent speaker and writer of Japanese, he writes for several of Japan's most influential automotive publications such as Best Car, Engine and Holiday Auto magazines. Regarded as the most prolific bilingual automotive writer and translator in the country, he has translated books on Bridgestone Motorsport, writes for Sony's Gran Turismo, and races a Mazda MX-5 in the local one-make series. In addition to his position as WCOTY juror and Co-chair, he also votes on the jury panel for the Japan Car of the Year and the International Engine of the Year awards. Having had a soft spot for British cars since before he can remember, he finally got his hands on a Sherwood Green Jaguar XJ8 in the summer of 2005, one of the last Jaguars made by Jaguar.
	GERRY MALLOY Director CANADA	Contributor: Toronto Star Wheels, Autofile.ca
	Gerry Malloy has been an automotive journalist for more than 20 years. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and, before turning to journalism, spent over 20 years as an automotive test-and-development engineer, both within a major automaker and as proprietor of an independent engineering business whose clientele comprised most of the world’s major automakers. He is a three-time winner of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada’s (AJAC) Automotive Journalist of the Year award, and the recipient of multiple other awards for automotive writing. As well as the editor of autofile.ca, he is a long-time columnist and feature writer for the Wheels section of the Toronto Star and an occasional contributor to several other publications and broadcasts
	JOHN MCCORMICK Director UNITED STATES	Contributor: Detroit News, Automotive Industries, Consumers Digest, Bloomberg Markets magazine, Top Gear - UK, Die Welt - Germany, Automobil Produktion - Germany
	British-born John McCormick came to the United States in 1986 to join AutoWeek magazine after four years as deputy editor of Britain's prestigious CAR magazine. McCormick moved from AutoWeek to Ward's Auto World and then became an independent auto writer in 1992. Today, McCormick is one of the leading United States-based international automotive writers, contributing to publications in every major market around the world. In Europe, McCormick contributes to leading consumer automotive newspapers and magazines in every major market - Top Gear in the UK, Die Welt and Auto Zeitung in Germany, L'Automobile in France, Gente Motori in Italy and Autopista in Spain. In the Pacific Rim region, McCormick is the United States editor for Driver magazine in Japan and contributes to the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia. Widely travelled, McCormick's expertise includes new vehicle evaluation as well as reporting on automotive industry developments, supplier activities, production facilities, personnel and business matters
	JENS MEINERS Director INTERNATIONAL	Based in Germany and the USA, Meiners contributes to Car and Driver, Welt, Automobile Industrie, Spotpress and various other outlets
	Based in Germany and the USA, Jens Meiners leads Car and Driver's German Online Bureau, is chief correspondent for the trade magazine Automobil Industrie, and writes for various other national and international outlets. He has covered the automotive industry since 1996. A former law student, he began his career in journalism as editor of the buyer's guide Autosalon. He subsequently was Managing Editor of Automotive Business International and staff reporter for Automotive News Europe; in 2010, he was co-founder of the automotive news agency Spot Press Services. Meiners splits his time between Northern Bavaria and New York City. His growing collection of cars includes an Aston Martin Lagonda, the Reliant/Bertone FW11 prototype, and a Porsche 914/6 race car.
	MIKE RUTHERFORD Director GREAT BRITAIN	Weekly Columnist: The Sunday Times. Chief Columnist, Auto Express. Regular contributor to BBC TV and Radio, ITV, Sky News, Telegraph TV
	London-born Rutherford has been writing and broadcasting about cars for 30 years. His words and pictures have appeared in most of the UK's national newspapers, and he has served time as Motoring Editor on three of them. Mike has driven thousands of test cars in scores of countries on every continent, presented over 1,000 national/international radio programmes, as well as hosting countless car programmes on TV. For the last quarter of a century he's been a regular contributor on the BBC and other leading stations, in addition to doing occasional pieces for American broadcasters. Apart from his WCOTY duties, Mike Rutherford's greatest claims to fame are that he is one of the founding fathers of Auto Express (Britain's biggest selling weekly car mag) which he helped establish and launch in 1988; he has interviewed the last five British Prime Ministers about motoring matters; and he's one of the few journalists in the world to have driven a Formula One car. Mike Rutherford also serves as a trustee for the MarcusRutherfordFoundation.com.