Executive Director of the Rory Peck Trust
Jon Williams is the Executive Director of the Rory Peck Trust.
As foreign editor, first of the BBC, then in New York at the US network ABC, he spent a decade leading the broadcasters’ reporting of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, winning two Emmy Awards for the BBC coverage of the Syrian Civil War and a third for ABC’s reporting of the resulting refugee crisis.
As Managing Director, News & Current Affairs of Ireland’s public broadcaster, RTÉ, he led the creative renewal of RTÉ News and its transformation into a digital-first news organisation, making it the market leader online as well as on-air – and Ireland’s most trusted news source.
He serves in the boards of the Committee to Protect Journalists and UK for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency’s UK foundation. He is currently trying to build the UK’s first permanent memorial to journalists killed in service of the truth.
