Speakers

Yasir Khan

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Yasir Khan is Editor-in-Chief at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. He oversees the Foundation's digital journalism platform, Context, and its global newsroom that stretches from Manila to Mexico City. An award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and podcaster, Yasir has spent his nearly 30-year-long career in newsrooms around the world including CNN, CBC, Al Jazeera and Euronews. He has also taught multimedia journalism and documentary filmmaking at the American University in Cairo, the Jordan Media Institute and Northwestern University.