Filmmaker and media consultant, is the Director General of ARIJ since January 2020. Her curricula is impressive: she has 25 years of experience in TV and digital storytelling and stands behind tens of award-winning TV documentaries and investigations in the Arab World. She was also a senior editor at Al Jazeera for 10 years where she commissioned more than 250 documentaries from all the Arab world.
During the five years as ARIJ’s Director General, Rawan has doubled the team and the budget of the foundation, has opened the first regional platform for fact-checkers and another first regional Arabic language whistleblowers platform; in addition to ARIJ Artificial Intelligence Strategy. She led the publication of more than 200 investigations with tens of award-winning reports.
Rawan received a Master’s degree with honorable distinction in media and communication from the University of Leeds in the UK, 2003. She was also awarded the Media Creativity Award from the Arab Thought Foundation in Beirut, 2015.
