Jon Williams is Executive Director Rory Peck Trust and a three-time Emmy Award-winning editor and storyteller. He became Executive Director of the Rory Peck Trust in 2024 after serving as Managing Director of RTÉ News. Previously, Jon was the BBC’s Foreign Editor for seven years, overseeing coverage of the Arab Spring and the war in Afghanistan. He managed more than 200 journalists in over 30 countries, winning the International Emmy for coverage of the Israel–Hezbollah war and an Emmy for reporting from Syria. He later moved to New York as Managing Editor of ABC News, the Walt Disney Company’s news division, where he directed global newsgathering and won a third Emmy for coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis. Earlier in his career, he was the BBC’s UK News Editor, where he relaunched Britain’s most-watched news programme, the Six O’Clock News. In addition to his work with Rory Peck, Jon also serves on the boards of the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York, where he chairs its Journalists Assistance Committee, and UK for UNHCR, the British foundation for the UN Refugee Agency.
