Esmat Salaheddine / Egypt

ARIJ coach/trainer and manager of the ARIJ-Ford Foundation "Egypt Governance Program" (Egypt). He Is currently working as a senior editor at the World Bank’s establishment of a new translation- and editing hub at the Bank’s Country Office in Cairo. Setting up a network of high-calibre freelance translators and editors. Further he is a manager at the ARIJ project on Local Governance in Egypt. Selection of governorate-based journalists to write investigation reports and news features on local governance-related issues. Esmat Mohamed Salah El-Din has been the senior editor and correspondent at Reuters News Agency where he wrote and edited news reports, analysis and features in English and Arabic - covering a very wide range of topics, such as politics, environment, markets, and other macro- and micro-economic subjects. Some of the scoops include a report that revealed the presence of 33 Egyptian senior military officers onboard EgyptAir flight that crashed off New York in 1999, and the extradition by foreign secret services of some of the most senior Islamic militants to Egypt. Assignments outside Egypt include Iraq, Saudi Arabic, Lebanon and Jordan, among others. Esmat Mohamed Salah El-Din was responsible for establishing the first-ever Reuters Arabic reporting desk. This includes the recruitment of a team of about 20 reporters all over Egypt and in most Arab capitals, coaching and performance evaluation. He has also established and is the head of a translation- and editing desk for Reuters Middle East TV, including the supervision of a 5-member team. Further Esmat Mohamed Salah El-Din has been translator and sub-editor at the Middle East News Agency and the Egyptian Broadcasting Corporation, Translator and Reporter at the Dubai-based English raily Khaleei Times and Lecturer at the Faculty of Languaged and Translation, Al-Azhar University.