Galal W. El Hakim

Galal has over three decades of experience in global media organisations leading news production, broadcast, and technology operations divisions.  Galal has a proven track record in guiding cross-functional teams in the design and launch of cutting-edge business solutions, driving greater efficiencies, and increasing engagement and revenue.  

Galal has led substantial transformational projects for a variety of media and technology organisations, as well as overseeing start-ups and teams in the Middle East, Europe and the United States.  He specialises in global broadcast operations and multimedia technology, start-ups, and training and development programmes, as well as strategic business planning and process redesign, and cost reduction and budgeting and cash flow optimisation. 

Galal co-launched DD India - India’s state English news channel, launched Al Ghad TV News, created and implemented an integrated operations division for Al Jazeera Media Network and Al Jazeera America; led the transformation and restructure programme for the Egyptian Ministry of Information; and led the launch of the BBC World Service integration project, as well as the launch of BBC Arabic and Persian.