Nadia El-Gowely, currently Executive Director of Al-Fanar Media, is a seasoned Egyptian journalist who spent 35 years with the Cairo-based Reuters Arabic News Service. She joined the international news agency in 1984 as a fresh graduate and was the first woman on the then all-men team of the Arabic desk. She moved all the way up from a sub-editor/translator to financial news editor and finally head of the whole service from February 2018 to June 2021. She also taught media translation, writing for radio and TV, and news documentary at two Egyptian universities. Between 2006 and 2007 she was the editor of the English service of the independent news agency Aswat al-Iraq, a Reuters Foundation/UNDP project. She also trained scores of journalists in Cairo and several Arab capitals on news reporting and writing and media ethics.