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.
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.
Marina Adami
Digital journalist
Marina works in 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.
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.
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.
Helen Boaden
Helen is the Chair of our Steering Committee
Helen is the Chair of the Reuters Institute's Steering Committee
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.
Joshua Ogawa
Head of AI and Visual Strategy, Editorial Division at Nikkei
Joshua Ogawa is the Head of AI and Visual Strategy, Editorial Division at Nikkei.
Zaffar Abbas
Editor, Dawn
Zaffar is the editor of Dawn, Pakistan’s leading English language newspaper
Professor Stephen Ansolabehere
Professor of Government, Harvard University
Stephen is one of the leading academic experts on U.S. elections and voting behaviour.
Campbell Brown
Senior Advisor, TollBit
Campbell is a senior adviser at AI startup TollBit
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, 'Süddeutsche Zeitung'
Alexandra is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung and the former editor of Austria's Der Standard.
Catherine Gicheru
Director, Africa Women Journalist Project
Catherine is the Director of the Africa Women Journalism Project.
Researchers
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.
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
Dr Felix M. Simon is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in AI and Digital News and a Research Associate 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.
Hiroshi Asahina
Journalist, Nikkei
Hiroshi is a political correspondent with experience in regional bureaus and in social affairs reporting. His focus is on holding political power to account and showing how policies are made. He has many years of experience covering elections
Vince Chadwick
Senior news editor, Euractiv
Vince began his career at The Age newspaper in Melbourne before working in Brussels as a reporter and editor at POLITICO Europe, senior reporter at Devex, and now senior news editor at Euractiv.
Patrick Egwu
Freelance journalist
Patrick Egwu is a Nigerian freelance investigative journalist and media researcher. He has reported from Johannesburg, Berlin, Chicago and Toronto for outlets including Foreign Policy, America Magazine, Reuters Institute, World Politics Review and more.
Salla-Rosa Gröhn
Producer, Yle
Salla-Rosa Gröhn is a Producer and Writer working for the Finnish Public Broadcaster Yle. She specialises in social media journalism that engages young 'hard-to-reach' audiences. Her goal is to create news, documentaries and factual content accessible to diverse groups.
Håkon Høydal
Journalist, Verdens Gang
Investigative journalist and author, covering online crime, honour-based violence, and other trauma-related topics as online child abuse
Banjot Kaur
Health journalist, The Wire
Banjot has been a health journalist in India since 2010. She extensively covered Covid-19 from policy and science angles. Her on-ground investigations of various health schemes from different parts of the country have exposed gaps and corruption. Her critique of policies has influenced debate and decision-making. She has been a speaker at many national and international media and scientific forums.
Visiting Fellows
Here are the Visiting Fellows currently at the Reuters Institute. You can also find recent Visiting Fellow alumni
Adrian Hadland
Chair for Journalism and Media Studies, University of Stirling
Adrian is an award-winning political journalist and author and is currently Chair for Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland
Colette Brin
Colette Brin is a Professor at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada and Director of Centre d’études sur les médias (CEM)
Madhav Chinnappa
Madhav Chinnappa is a senior executive consultant who has worked globally at the intersection of news, technology, sustainability and most recently AI
Liliane Landor
Liliane Landor has served in many roles at the BBC including as Director of the World Service
Agnes Stenbom Swedling
Founder, Nordic AI Journalism, and Head of IN/LAB (Inclusion Lab), Schibsted
Agnes Stenbom Swedling is the founder of the foresight lab IN/LAB at Schibsted and an industrial PhD candidate in AI journalism at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.