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.
Lord Patten of Barnes
Former 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.
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.
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.
Campbell Brown
Senior Advisor, TollBit
Campbell is a senior adviser at AI startup TollBit
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.
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.
Dante Dallago
Freelance investigative journalist
Dante Dallago is an investigative multimedia journalist with a focus on OSINT techniques. He covers stories on human rights abuses, migration, conflict, and law enforcement accountability.
Boryana Dzhambazova
Freelance journalist
A journalist and media trainer based in Sofia, Bulgaria, Boryana reports on a wide range of topics from politics and economics to human rights and culture. Her work has appeared in multiple international publications, including the New York Times, The Economist, and Politico Europe.
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.
Banjot Kaur
Health journalist, The Wire
Banjot has over 15 years’ experience as a health journalist in India. Her work has exposed TB drug shortages, toxic cough syrups, weak COVID sequencing, and how Asia’s largest slum controlled the spread of COVID-19. Her work has been featured on PBS, BBC, Ravish Kumar's Prime Time, Newslaundry and at top conferences.
