Lorenzo Soria was elected president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for 2015-16 at the organization’s annual election meeting, outgoing president Theo Kingma announced on Tuesday afternoon.
In addition, Meher Tatna, Jorge Camara and Serge Rakhlin were elected vice president, treasurer and executive secretary respectively by the group responsible for the annual Golden Globe Awards.
Soria is Argentinean born, and raised in Italy, where after completing his studies became a journalist for the most prestigious Italian news weekly, L’Espresso. Since 1982, he has lived in Los Angeles, where he continues to work for L’Espresso and also for the daily, La Stampa.