Short Biography

Nabila Ramdani is an award-winning French-Algerian journalist, columnist, and broadcaster who specialises in French politics, Islamic affairs, and the Arab World.

She writes columns for The Guardian,  The Observer, The Independent, London Evening Standard, and New Statesman.

Nabila also produces features and news stories for a wide range of other Fleet Street publications, including the Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and Sunday Times.

She contributes to a variety of Middle Eastern outlets, including The National, Gulf News, Daily News Egypt, The Gulf Today, Al Jazeera News, The Majalla magazine, and Think, the new Qatari corporate magazine.

Her work also appears in French newspapers like Le Monde, Le Figaro, Le Parisien, Marianne, and L’Express.

Nabila is a commentator for flagship programmes such as the BBC‘s Newsnight, Woman’s Hour, Today programme, You and Yours, PM, Broadcasting House, and Sunday,  the Sky News Press Preview, Sunrise, The Live Desk, and Boulton & Co, Al Jazeera‘s Inside Story, France Télévisions, Canal +, and France Inter.

Nabila has been shortlisted for the International Media Awards 2013 in the “Cutting Edge” journalism category.

She is listed as one of the most influential Twitter account holders in the world by France’s national news agency, AFP (Agence France-Presse).

Nabila has been selected as a Board Member of the Global Thinkers Forum (GTF).

She is a winner of the Best Arab journalist in the West Award 2012 organised by the London-based Arabs Group network.

Nabila is an honouree of the Global Thinkers Forum Excellence in Innovation Award 2012 organised under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan.

She has been named by DNA (Decide Now Act) “101 Innovation” as 1 of 101 most innovative individuals in the world for social good in 2012.

Nabila has been honoured with the title Young Global Leader 2012 by the World Economic Forum.

She is a board member of the Franco-British Council.

Nabila is a winner of the inaugural EMWI – European Muslim Woman of Influence Award 2010.

She was a nominee for the 2010 EU Journalist Award – Together Against Discrimination.

Nabila is a Fellow on the pioneering UN Alliance of Civilizations programme (UNAOC).