Ali Al Ibrahim

Ali Al Ibrahim is an award-winning investigative journalist, lecturer, and the founder of SIRAJ, an investigative journalism unit. With more than 15 years of professional experience, he is renowned for his in-depth investigations into abuse of power, human rights violations, corruption, and financial misconduct across the Middle East and beyond. He has collaborated with leading international media outlets, including the OCCRP, The Guardian, and BBC, and has received numerous prestigious accolades, such as the BBC Best Young Journalist Award and the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press. In 2022, he was honored with the FJA Outstanding Investigative Reporting Award, and in 2023, he received the AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Journalism in the United States. Ali is also recognized by the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN). Beyond reporting, Ali is a TED Fellow and a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Journalism Studies. He studied in the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New York, and completed a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is currently preparing for PhD studies in Artificial Intelligence. Ali is the author of a book on Artificial Intelligence in Journalism, with a focus on ethics and best practices, and has been a consultant at the International Journalists’ Network since 2017. Al Ibrahim regularly publishes reports with the network about best practices, methodologies of investigative journalism, ethics, and the effective use of artificial intelligence techniques in investigations and technology.