Staff
Senior Management
Steering Committee
Advisory Board
Research Associates
Journalist Fellows
Visiting Fellows
Staff
Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Director
Rasmus is Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Professor of Political Communication at the University of Oxford.
Mitali Mukherjee
Director of the Journalist Programmes
Mitali Mukherjee is a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital journalism in India.
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.
Dr Richard Fletcher
Director of Research
Richard is the Director of Research at the Reuters Institute. He is primarily interested in digital news consumption and comparative media research.
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
Head of Editorial
Eduardo is the co-founder of two news startups and an award-winning senior journalist with experience in Europe and the United States.
Senior Management
Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Director
Rasmus is Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Professor of Political Communication at the University of Oxford.
Mitali Mukherjee
Director of the Journalist Programmes
Mitali Mukherjee is a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital journalism in India.
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.
Dr Richard Fletcher
Director of Research
Richard is the Director of Research at the Reuters Institute. He is primarily interested in digital news consumption and comparative media research.
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
Head of Editorial
Eduardo is the co-founder of two news startups and an award-winning senior journalist with experience in Europe and the United States.
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.
Alan Rusbridger
Editor, Prospect magazine
Alan is the Chair of our Steering Committee and the former Editor-in-Chief of the Guardian.
Professor Wale Adebanwi
Rhodes Professor of Race Relations and Director, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Wale has held a number of senior journalistic roles and has taught around the world in the field of African Studies.
Sir Michael Dixon
Principal, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
Prior to his role leading our affiliate college, Sir Michael was the Director General of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Director of London's Natural History Museum.
Professor Timothy Garton Ash
Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford
Timothy is a leading expert on European affairs and writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers worldwide.
Jane Green
Professor of Political Science and British Politics
Director of the Nuffield Politics Research Centre and Westminster Bridge and Co-Director of the British Election Study
Helen Lewis
Journalist, The Atlantic
Helen is a leading UK journalist, author and the inaugural Oxford University Women in the Humanities Honorary Writing Fellow.
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.
Lord Patten of Barnes
Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Lord Patten is the Chair of the RISJ's Advisory Board. He is a life peer, and was formerly an MP and government minister, the Chairman of the BBC Trust for three years, and was the last Governor of Hong Kong.
Zaffar Abbas
Editor, Dawn
Zaffar is the editor of Dawn, Pakistan’s leading English language newspaper
Professor Stephen Ansolabehere
Professor of Political Science, Harvard University
Stephen is one of the leading academic experts on U.S. elections and voting behaviour.
Marty Baron
Former Executive Editor, The Washington Post
Marty is the former Executive Editor of The Washington Post and former editor of the Boston Globe and Miami Herald.
Helen Boaden
Council member, Royal Academy of Arts; Board member, UK Statistics Authority
Helen is a council member of the Royal Academy of Arts, a non-executive board member of the UK Statistics Authority, and a former Director of BBC News.
Campbell Brown
Head of News Partnerships, Facebook
Campbell is Head of News Partnerships at Facebook. She is a former CNN and NBC News anchor.
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.
Thu Thu Aung
Correspondent, Reuters
Thu Thu is a Pulitzer prize winning Myanmar correspondent at Reuters. Since the military coup of February 2021, she has continued to report on Myanmar from Thailand. In her career she has covered ethnic armed conflicts, drug trafficking, human rights abuses and the Rohingya genocide.
Ayen Bior
Producer, National Public Radio
Ayen Deng Bior is a producer and reporter in radio, television and web. She is drawn to stories about the refugee experience and the rights of women. In her spare time, she loves to read, kayak and bird watch.
Regine Cabato
Manila reporter, Washington Post
Regine reports about the Philippines for the Washington Post. She has sat in a troll farm, followed drug war killings and, most recently, covered the 2022 presidential election. Her commentary has been featured on BBC, CBS, and CNN among other channels.
Ronson Chan
Multimedia Production Supervisor (Local News), Channel C HK
Ronson is the head of the Hong Kong Journalists Association and former deputy editor of Stand News. He now works for Channel C. As a journalist for 18 years, he has worked as an investigative reporter, online news editor, and assignment editor in different media.
Laida Kaoma Chongo
Freelance journalist
Laida Kaoma Chongo is an independent journalist based in Zambia with a passion for issues around gender. She is a firm believer that well-informed writing can change Zambia’s journalism narrative for the better and that writing is a powerful tool for advocacy.
Zsófia Fülöp
Journalist, Magyar Narancs
Zsófia is a Hungarian journalist for the independent political-cultural weekly Magyar Narancs. She has mainly covered health care, social issues and has done a lot of reporting on underrepresented communities such as Roma, refugees or LGBTQ+ people.
Visiting Fellows
Jessica Cecil
Jessica is a media and news leader and started the Trusted News Initiative while at the BBC
Lee Kangtaik
Lee Kangtaik is the Chairman of the Korea Broadcasting Channel Promotion Association and Former CEO of TBS
María F. Novoa Jaso
María F. Novoa Jaso is a Professor of International Communication, Public Opinion, and Sociology at the University of Navarra, Spain
Damian Radcliffe
Damian Radcliffe is a journalist, researcher, and professor based at the University of Oregon, where he is the Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism
Anya Schiffrin
Anya Schiffrin is the director of the technology and media specialisation at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs