Sandy Myhre – New Zealand
First woman member of NZ Motoring Writers’ Guild
First woman member and first President, NZ Motorsport Media Association – she has covered motor racing from all the major tracks of the world.
Caroline Carver – United Kingdom
Caroline’s first novel Blood Junction, won the CWA Debut Dagger Award and was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best mystery books of the year.
Born in the UK, Caroline is half-English half-New Zealand. She has been a travel writer and long–distance rally driver, heading an all-female crew driving London to Saigon and London to Cape Town.
Heléne Griffiths – South Africa
Heléne’s motoring career started in the late ‘70s as a rally driver, participating in club and regional events as well as blind-navigators rallies. Gill Findlay navigated for Heléne for many years and together their greatest achievement was winning their class in the Total Economy Run.
Regina Chan – Canada
Regina is the founder of AutoNerve Magazine, the first and only professional automotive publication in the Chinese language across Canada.
Renuka Kirpalani – India
Renuka was editor and host of the CNBC TV 18’s award winning Autoshow since its conception in 2003 until 2007. She shifted over to UTVi in 2008 where she retains the position of editor and host of the Automotive show.
Liz Swanton – Australia
Liz Swanton trained as a journalist on Australia’s national daily paper, The Australian, and the now–defunct NSW tabloid, the Daily Mirror.
Lou Hammond – United States of America
Ms. Hammond worked at Chevron Corp. in finance and accounting from 1978–1986. Since 1986, Lou Ann has been in the automotive business. She is the founder and owner of www.carlist.com, the longest-running used car database in the world and one of the first auto sites on the Internet
Charlene Clarke – South Africa
Freelance writer Charleen Clarke began her potholed path in motoring journalism in 1984, working on a newspaper in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth, in South Africa.
Henny Hemmes – The Netherlands
Besides being the first female race car driver to ever win a Dutch FIA Championship in The Netherlands, or better still: two championships, Henny Hemmes is one of Europe’s most prolific and well–regarded autowriters. She can boast 30 years of experience as a race driver, race instructor and anti skid instructor.
Sue Baker – United Kingdom
Sue Baker is an award–winning freelance motoring writer, editor and broadcaster, with over 30 years’ experience of car testing and new product launch reporting, analysis and commentary.
Lauren Fix –
Lauren Fix, the Car Coach, is an automotive and lifestyle expert, she has appeared numerous times on Oprah, TODAY, 20/20, Regis & Kelly, The View, CNBC, CNN, FOX News, Headlines News and MSNBC to name a few. Lauren is seen and heard everywhere. Author of her third book: Lauren Fix’s Guide To Loving Your Car; and was the host of Talk 2 DIY Automotive and Female Driven on Lifetime TV.
Vicki Butler – Henderson
Vicki is a founding–presenter for Channel Five’s Fifth Gear, a motoring journalist and a racing driver.
She has previously presented BBC TV Top Gear and been a Road Tester for Auto Express and What Car? magazines, as well as writing for many other publications since the age of 17.
Her first book “Vicki Butler-Henderson's 100 Sexiest Cars” was launched in 2010.
Susan Sun – China
Susan Sun is the Editor–in–Chief and publisher of the Auto Club magazine in China.
In addition she is recognised as the member of Youth Union CPC Central Committee, a director of the China National Automotive Journalist Association, a judge in the China Automotive News Awards, and President of the Chinese Universities Alliance.
Jill McIntosh – Canada
Jil McIntosh has been writing professionally about cars since the early 1980s. Other auto–related jobs in the past have included six years as a taxi driver, and working in the service department of vehicle dealerships. She is a member of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) and is a judge for the association’s Canadian Car of the Year awards.
Alicia Ryzewski – Argentina
Alicia Ryzewski left her hometown in 1994 (born in 1975 in Puerto Madryn, Chubut) to study in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina.
Jacqui Madelin – New Zealand
Jacqui Madelin is an award winning motoring journalist who began her career writing about motorcycle travel for fun. Offered a job as assistant, then associate editor of a motorcycle magazine, she became a full–time journalist, eventually moving to a car magazine and then going freelance in 2002.
Victoria MacMillan Bell – United Kingdom
In a career spanning 11 years to date, she has driven the most basic car to the most technically advanced and written and spoken about her thoughts for national and international press, in print and broadcast.