Staff
Senior Management
Steering Committee
Advisory Board
Researchers
Journalist Fellows
Visiting Fellows
Staff
Mitali Mukherjee
Director of the Reuters Institute
Mitali Mukherjee is the Director of the Reuters Institute and the Director of our Journalist Programmes.
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 Suárez manages the digital channels of the Institute, including its website, its newsletters and its social media channels.
Marina Adami
Digital journalist
Marina works at the editorial team editing and writing stories for the Institute's digital channels.
Senior Management
Mitali Mukherjee
Director of the Reuters Institute
Mitali Mukherjee is the Director of the Reuters Institute and the Director of our Journalist Programmes.
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 Suárez manages the digital channels of the Institute, including its website, its newsletters and its social media channels.
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.
Tania Boyt
Head of Administration and Finance, Department of Politics and International Relations
Tania Boyt is the Head of Administration and Finance at the Department of Politics and International Relations.
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 David Doyle
Head of Department of Politics and International Relations
David Doyle is a Professor of Politics and Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.
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.
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
Chair Windsor Leadership; Chair York Theatre Royal; Chair National Statistician’s Advisory Committee on Data Ethics.
Helen is a Chair Windsor Leadership; Chair York Theatre Royal; Chair National Statistician’s Advisory Committee on Data Ethics.
Campbell Brown
Senior Advisor, TollBit
Campbell is a senior adviser at AI startup TollBit
Researchers
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.
Dr Tali Aharoni
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Tali is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow who works on the Digital News Project. Her research interests include news audiences, trust, news avoidance, social media, and journalistic production.
Dr Waqas Ejaz
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Waqas is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Oxford Climate Journalism Network
Dr Craig T. Robertson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Craig is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow who works on the Digital News Project. His focus is on news trust and credibility, fact-checking and verification.
Dr Amy Ross Arguedas
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Amy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow who works on the Trust in News Project. Her dissertation looked at how medical information circulated in the news media, social media, clinical practice, and scientific research.
Dr Felix Simon
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Felix M. Simon is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in AI and Digital News and is a finishing doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII).
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.
Jazmín Acuña
Co-founder and editorial director, El Surtidor
Jazmín has been a journalist for over a decade and co-founded Paraguay’s award-winning digital news platform, El Surtidor. As editorial director of the outlet, she spearheads efforts to reach young audiences with visual journalism about climate change, gender issues, and abuses of power.
Asmaa al-Omar
Freelance journalist
Asmaa is a journalist who has reported on human rights violations, migration, and conflict in the Middle East for publications such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Guardian. Her investigative work focuses on refugee issues and regional corruption.
Masaharu Ban
Contributor, Nikkei, and Lead Writer, Digital Governance
With 16 years’ experience as a journalist, Masaharu focuses on tech and investigative reporting, specializing in big tech and AI. He is interested in how powerful platforms can contribute to social good, and in how they might reshape humanity and the economy.
Nabila Bana
Digital Producer and Strategist, Al Jazeera English
Since getting her start documenting human stories during the Syrian war, Nabila has produced digital stories for leading newsrooms across three continents, most recently with Al Jazeera English's digital media team. Her video journalism has amassed >500 million views across various platforms.
Niko Efstathiou
Journalist, author and presenter
Niko is a journalist and author from Athens who has worked for various print and digital media in Greece as a journalist and managing editor. He was also a communications officer for the World Health Organization and a Google News Lab Fellow working on citizen journalism and human rights.
Jon Kåre Time
Journalist, Morgenbladet
Jon is a Norwegian journalist who has worked at Morgenbladet newspaper since 2006, where he began working as book reviewer. For the past decade, he has worked in news and current affairs, primarily focusing on long-form science and ideas journalism.
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