Michael MainvilleAsia-Pacific Regional Director, Agence France-Presse

Michael Mainville is the Regional Director of Asia Pacific. With extensive experience in global news coverage, he ensures accurate and comprehensive news for AFP's clients in the dynamic and fast-growing region. After graduating from Carleton University and working as a freelance journalist in Russia, he joined AFP in 2007 as a correspondent in the Caucasus. Later, he covered French news in Paris before becoming head of the AFP English desk in Nicosia and Deputy Chief Editor for the Middle East. In 2018, he became the Moscow Bureau Chief and oversaw AFP's coverage of the war in Ukraine.