Ali Al Ibrahim

Ali Al Ibrahim is an award-winning investigative journalist, and founder of SIRAJ, Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism, a unit for investigative journalism. With over ten years of experience, he is renowned for his impactful investigations into abuse of power, human rights violations, corruption, and financial misconduct.

Ali has collaborated with prominent international media outlets such as OCCRP, The Guardian, Lighthouse Reports, and BBC, earning him prestigious accolades including the BBC’s Best Young Journalist Award, the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press, and the Outstanding Investigative Reporting Award from FJA (2022). In 2023, he was also awarded the AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism in the United States.

He is a TED Fellow and a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Journalism Studies. Ali studied in the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New York, and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has conducted numerous training sessions for journalists across the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on investigative skills and integrating AI tools into the reporting process.