Rawan Damen

Rawan Damen is the director general of ARIJ (Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism) has 25+ years of experience in documentary & investigations television and digital production and training in addition to media management. Before joining ARIJ, Rawan worked on producing and directing 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), leading a team who produced more than 250 documentary and investigative TV episodes. She also led large interactive multi-language international platforms. 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.