Raghida Dergham

Raghida Dergham is a Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, and the New York Bureau Chief for the London-based Al Hayat newspaper. She is Dean of the international media at the United Nations. Ms. Dergham is also the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Beirut Institute, an indigenous think tank that aims to encourage innovative, solution-oriented analyses of the opportunities and challenges affecting the Arab region. Ms. Dergham was named one of the 100 Most Powerful Arab Women in 2011 and in 2016. She is a specialist on strategic international relations and member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an Honorary Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association. In addition to covering the American-Soviet summits and the 27th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1980s, Ms. Dergham has interviewed over 40 global leaders. She has contributed to Al Arabiya English, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Newsweek. She was a political analyst for NBC, MSNBC, and LBC for eight years as well as a contributing editor for Global Viewpoint produced for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Ms. Dergham was appointed to the Task Force on the Reorientation of Public Information by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, and she served as Chairman of the Dag Hammarskjold Fund Board in 2005