Simon Robinson
Executive Editor, Reuters

Simon Robinson helps run a newsroom of 2,500 people; oversees all Reuters news publishing assets; and manages the news budget and operations team. He joined Reuters in 2010 and ran investigations and enterprise reporting in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for six years, editing multiple award-winning stories and series. Between 2017 and 2019 he was regional editor for EMEA, and then led a project to rethink the way a newswire works in the 2020s.
Prior to joining Reuters, Robinson was a correspondent and then editor at Time magazine, reporting from more than 50 countries in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. He has published short stories, and wrote and produced an award-winning satirical movie about Western aid workers and journalists in Africa.