Staff
Senior Management
Steering Committee
Advisory Board
Researchers
Journalist Fellows
Visiting Fellows
Staff
Mitali Mukherjee
Acting Director of the Reuters Institute
Mitali Mukherjee is the Acting 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 is the co-founder of two news startups and an award-winning senior journalist with experience in Europe and the United States.
Marina Adami
Digital journalist
Marina works at the editorial team editing and writing stories for the Institute's digital channels.
Senior Management
Mitali Mukherjee
Acting Director of the Reuters Institute
Mitali Mukherjee is the Acting 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 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.
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
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
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.
Arlina Arshad
Indonesia Bureau Chief, The Straits Times
Arlina Binte Arshad is the Indonesia bureau chief for The Straits Times, where she leads a team of local correspondents and oversees media coverage across Indonesia. A Singaporean of Javanese ethnicity, her career has spanned two decades with The Straits Times and AFP, covering everything from terror attacks and tsunamis to protests and plane crashes.
Tom Edgington
Senior journalist, BBC Verify
Tom Edgington is a senior journalist in the BBC's forensic journalism unit, BBC Verify. Specialising in political fact-checking and public policy, he reports across television, radio and digital.
Maria Kiseleva
Producer, Current Time
Maria Kiseleva is a bilingual journalist and video producer from Russia, who relocated to Riga, Latvia, after the invasion of Ukraine to escape military censorship laws. Before the invasion, Maria was working for the BBC’s Russian Service in Moscow. She currently works for Current Time TV station, part of RFE/RL.
Davide Lerner
Journalist and radio presenter
Davide Lerner, a journalist and radio presenter from Italy, joins us from Columbia J-School where he received the “Best Thesis” award and the James Wechsler international reporting award. Davide spent several years working in the Middle East and has written a book on the Israel Gaza war.
Nevena Madžarević
Broadcaster, United Media
Nevena Madžarević produces and hosts of the Nova S morning show for United Media in Serbia. With 20 years’ experience in television, she has worked as an author, producer and presenter of news and political debate shows on several national television stations.
Lameez Omarjee
Climate Editor, News24
Lameez Omarjee is the climate editor at South Africa's biggest news site, News24. She is most interested in finding engaging ways to report on the just transition, which is critical to how developing and developed nations uphold their commitments to tackle climate change.
