Staff
Senior Management
Steering Committee
Advisory Board
Researchers
Journalist Fellows
Visiting Fellows
Staff
Gretel Kahn
Journalist
Gretel is a journalist in the editorial team, writing stories for the Institute and helping manage its digital channels.
Matthew Leake
Communications and Media Officer
Matthew works in the editorial team and has a background in marketing and communications.
Cheris Leung
Executive Assistant
Cheris is the Executive Assistant to the RISJ Director.
Caithlin Mercer
Associate Director of the Fellowship Programme
Caithlin is Associate Director of the Journalist Fellowship Programme. She is an experienced journalist having previously been the Managing Editor at Yahoo UK.
Tania Montalvo
Associate Director, Leadership Development Programmes
Tania is the Associate Director of our Leadership Development Programmes. Her role is centred on designing, operating and delivering the leadership courses at the Institute.
Juan Morante
Fellowship Officer
Juan is our Fellowship Officer
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Steering Committee
The Steering Committee meets several times throughout the year and has general oversight of the Reuters Institute. It approves long-term planning, financial statements, fundraising strategies and other activities. It reports to key stakeholders within the University of Oxford and supports our relationship with the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Dr Richard Fletcher
Deputy Director of the Institute and Director of Research
Richard is the Deputy Director of the Institute and its Director of Research . He is primarily interested in digital news consumption and comparative media research.
Federica Cherubini
Director of Leadership Development
Federica is an expert in newsroom operations and organisational change, with ten years of experience in publishers and networks worldwide.
Kate Hanneford-Smith
Director of Operations
Kate is responsible for the day-to-day management and administration of the Institute and plays a lead role in setting financial and operational strategy.
Eduardo Suárez
Director of Editorial
Eduardo Suárez is the Director of Editorial of the Institute, and is responsible for its website, newsletters and other digital channels.
Advisory Board
Our advisory board is made up of high profile international figures from news organisations, technology companies, media policymaking and academia. Board members provide valuable insight and suggestions for our work.
Ed Richards
Managing Partner, Flint Global Ltd
Ed has a wealth of experience working at the highest levels of the corporate, media and public sectors.
Vivian Schiller
Executive Director, Aspen Institute
Vivian heads up the Aspen Institute's programmes around media, technology and cybersecurity. She is the former President and CEO of NPR and Global Chair of News at Twitter.
Mark Thompson
CEO, CNN
Mark is the CEO of CNN and the Co-Chair of the International Fund for Public Interest Media.
Jaffer Zaidi
Vice President, Global News Partnerships, Google
Jaffer is Vice President, Global News Partnerships at Google
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Journalist Fellows
Here are the Journalist Fellows currently at the Reuters Institute. You can also find recent Journalist Fellow alumni and Journalist Fellows pre-2006.
Roman Sukhan
News Presenter, Suspilne (Ukraine Public Broadcaster)
Roman is a Ukrainian TV host and journalist with over 20 years of experience in news. He worked as a reporter and anchor on leading Ukrainian TV channels and at BBC Ukraine. Since 2019, he has been editor and host at Suspilne (National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine).
Shatha Yaish
Reporter, +972 Magazine
Shatha Yaish is a Palestinian journalist and the West Bank reporter for +972 Magazine. She has reported extensively across the Middle East, working with Agence France-Presse in Jerusalem, Dubai, and Nicosia, covering Israel, Palestine, the Gulf, and Yemen.
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