Speakers

Rawan Damen

Director General, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ)

Rawan Damen is the director general of ARIJ (Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism) since Jan 2020. She has 25+ years of experience in television and digital production and training in addition to media management. Before joining ARIJ, she produced and directed more than 30 hours of documentaries and investigative TV stories, published in different languages. She was a senior commissioner at Al Jazeera Network for 10 years (2006 – 2016). Rawan received 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.