Ibrahim Shukrallah

Ibrahim Shukrallah

Director of Government Communication Department at the UAE Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation.

Name in Arabic:
إبراهيم شكر اللَّه
Nationality: Emirati
Country of Residence: United Arab Emirates

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Director of Government Communication Department at the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation since July 2022, United Arab Emirates.

He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the College of Arts and Sciences at Abu Dhabi University since February 2021.

He held the position of Director of the Government Communication Office at the General Authority for Pensions and Social Security, and also held several positions at the National Media Council of the Emirates , namely: Head of the Foreign News Department between 2021 and 2022, Head of the Languages Editing Department between 2018 and 2021, and Acting Director of the Editing Department between 2019 and 2020.

He held the position of Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Emirates 24/7 between 2016 and 2018, and Dubai Post between 2017 and 2018. He also worked as a senior editor at Al-Emarat Al-Youm between 2014 and 2016, and as a reporter at the same newspaper between 2010 and 2014, during which he covered regional and international events in several cities, most notably Barcelona, Bangkok, Amman and Cairo. He also covered the 2012 Olympic Games in London, and was a sales employee at IKEA between 2009 and 2010.

He has written a number of opinion articles in several newspapers, including the Saudi newspaper Arab News, the American magazine Newsweek, and the Emirati newspaper Khaleej Times, which is published in English. He led his team in the foreign news section at WAM to conduct exclusive interviews with a number of heads of state, most notably Prince Albert II of Monaco, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Korean President Moon Jae-in, former Colombian President Ivan Duque, Pakistani President Arif Alvi, and others.

He has interviewed a number of prominent figures, including: Jerome Kushner, son-in-law and advisor to former US President Donald Trump, former Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Turkish Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop, former US State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus, New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta, and former British Ambassador to the UAE Dominic Jeremy.

He also met several sports figures, most notably: the Portuguese coach of Roma, Jose Mourinho, the former president of Barcelona, Sandro Rosell, the former coach of the Italian national team, Marcello Lippi, and the head of Istanbul’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics, Hasan Arat.

He received the “Distinguished New Employee Award” from the Dubai Media Incorporated in 2012, the “Journalist of the Month Award” in 2011 and 2012, and reached the final stage of the “Dubai Award for Excellence in Government Performance” in the category of Distinguished Field Employee. He represented the UAE press in the “Young Gulf Journalists Forum” held in Jeddah in 2013.

He holds a Master’s degree in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University in the United States of America in 2015, and a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management from the Higher Colleges of Technology in 2014. He also completed the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Program in cooperation with New York University Abu Dhabi in American Leadership, Politics and International Relations.

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