JULIANA RUHFUS

Juliana Ruhfus is an award-winning journalist, producer/ director, and TV presenter, specialised in human rights and investigative work.  Over the past two decades she has made over 60 films in nearly 50 countries and across six continents. Juliana has worked for some of the world’s largest broadcasters including BBC, Channel 4, WDR,

and NHK before joining Al Jazeera English, where she stayed for 15 years as the senior presenter

for the channel’s “People & Power” series.  After making some of the show’s most memorable

and highest-rated programmes, Juliana left the channel in early 2021.  She now combines work

as an independent filmmaker for Al Jazeera with writing and training. 

In 2010, Juliana was awarded the prestigious Ochberg Fellowship offered by the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma, a project of Columbia University Journalism School in New York.  A year later, she received a scholarship

for Harvard University’s Global Trauma Programme and in 2013, Action on Armed Violence (AOAV)

named her as one of the top 100 journalists covering conflict.  

Today, Juliana serves on the board of directors for the Dart Centre (Europe), the board of trustees for the Environmental Justice Foundation, and on the advisory board for eyeWitness to Atrocities.

Beyond her work in filmmaking, Juliana has created and produced the multi-award winning "Pirate Fishing - Interactive Investigation" and “Hacked” digital projects.  She has also successfully applied for Google DNI funding to develop an open source chat-based storytelling tool with the Al Jazeera interactive team.

Outside of her work in media, Juliana was twice appointed as a UN Security Council Sanctions Committee consultant tasked with investigating breaches of the arms embargo on Somalia.