MOHAMED AHMED ZAKI

MOHAMED AHMED ZAKI
Senior Producer, News & Field – TV Director

mohameddzakiih@gmail.com
Career Objectives:
Seeking a senior leadership function where I can contribute to the different layers: strategic core, technical, financial and technological success of the media platform, demonstrate my skills, and achieve – with the assistance of my team – a new milestone in my career’s journey.

Personal Information:

Nationality: Egyptian
Date of Birth: Nov. 13th, 1964

Remarkable Achievements:

Founding member of The Launch Team: Good Morning Kuwait, Kuwait TV.
Director and Producer, News Reports: Liberation of Kuwait. Kuwait TV.
Member of The Renovation Team: Main News Programme, Kuwait TV.
Producer and Director: Egyptian Presidential Campaign, ElSisi, 2014.
Establishing the CBS Studio in Iraq.
News Reporting Manager, el-Biet Bietak, Egyptian TV.
Live on Air from the Pyramids, the BBC, Satellite-link, Manager.
Saint Catrine TV Feature, Reuters TV, Producer.
News Desk Manager, Video Cairo.
Tourism in Egypt, French TV, Producer.
‘Wasma’, World Feature, short-film on correction institutions, 2016. Producer and Director.
Hot Zones News Coverage, 25th Jan 2011, 30th June 2013, events.
Multiple Reuters Exclusive Stories.
Twitter World Top Story “The visit of world’s tallest man and shortest lady to the Pyramids”.
CNN Producer for Christiane Amanpour covering the funeral of late President Yasser Arafat.
Member of the Production Team: Ed Bradley’s CBS 60 Minutes, covering Ayman ElZawahry.
Member of the News Production Teams for TV presenters: Ben Wedeman, Larry King from the CNN, Oprah Winfrey, and ABC’s Good Morning America.

Work Experience- Full-time: Field & News Producer (News and Features)

Arab World Press, Egypt (2022 – 2024):
Submitting agreed number of stories monthly.
Video editing, scripting and editing scripts for news and features.
Thomson Reuters, Egypt (2005 – 2021):
Managing a network of contributors across Egypt to make stories for the daily feed available to broadcast and online clients.
Video editing and quality control, scripting and editing scripts for news and features.
Working with sources and contacts on the ground to facilitate stories.
Communicating with governments and organizations’ officials to secure interviews, researching and identifying feature-worthy stories from across Egypt, and the MENA Region.
Egyptian TV, Egypt, (1996 – Present):
Senior TV Director of miscellaneous programs, Egyptian Satellite Channel (ESC).
Senior TV Director & Assistant Director for Live programs, ESC.
Reporters Supervisor, El Biet Bietak (Popular TV Program), ESC. (2007 – 2009)

(AMACOM Group) (Marketing, Consulting, and Advertising Agency), 1995 – 1996:
Production Executive Manager

Kuwait Television (The English Channel), 1993 – 1995:
TV Director

Work Experience- Part-time:

International News Channels
2022-2024: Senior News Producer at Arab World Press - AWP
2009: Covering the preparation/interviews of Obamas Visit to Cairo for FOX Channel
2005: Reporter during the crisis of the sank Al-Salam 98 Ferry for Channel 4 & ITN
2005: The preparation for Egyptian Presidency Election for CNN
2005: Senior News Producer at the Japanese TV (NHK)
2004 – 2005: Senior News Producer at CNN – Cairo Office
2004: Senior News Producer at FOX News (i.e., covering Al-Azhar bombing)
2004: Senior News Producer at Sky News (i.e., covering Taba bombing)
2003 – 2004: Assistant to the Manager & Bureau Chief of NOS – Dutch National Television (Holland) – Middle East Office in Cairo
2001: Assisting in shooting a 24Hour live from Cairo, French Television, TV5.
2001: Assistant Director ‘Life’, GMTV, Good Morning TV from London.
2000: Covering Pope’s visit to Cairo for RTL Television.
1999: Assisting in shooting the documentary film “Features of Egypt,” Denmark Television, TV2.
1999: Covering the Summit of the Arab Ministries for Foreign Affairs held in Cairo, and Covering the death of King Hussein for the CNN.
1997: Covering the terrorist attack in Luxor, for the Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV).
1996: Covering the Arab League Summit held in Cairo, for the Spanish Television.
1996: Covering the terrorist attack on Europe Hotel in Giza, German Television (FOCUS).
1996: Covering the press conference of President Al-Gadafi in Lybia, organized by the Japanese Television (NHK).

Local News Channels/Agents

1996 – 2006: Empowered by Video Cairo Center as a “Producer” to cover miscellaneous events for various organizations listed as follows:
2003 – 2006: Satellite Desk coordinator for all live shooting
2003: Desk coordinator & Producer during the “War on Iraq”
2003 – 2004: Assistant Director at Dream TV (Variety Program “Sahar Al-layaly”)
2002 – 2003: Art director with a Spanish Leather Company “Kamper”
2002: Executive Producer (responsible for interviews through satellite) and Senior coordinator at Mahawer Program - Mehwar Channel.

Professional Milestones:

Training reporters on professional news making, “Etfarag Website”
Field Producer, covering both critical Parliamentary Elections: 2005 (Canadian and Swedish TVs), and 2010 (Reuters).

Education and Training

1983 – 1988: B.Sc. in Political Sciences & Business Administration – Kuwait University, Kuwait.
1989 – 1991: Post Graduate Certificate in Middle Eastern Studies – University of Exeter, UK.
1988 – 1989: One-year Diploma, University of Reading, UK, on: International Relations “The Role of UN in solving security problems”. The study included a field visit to the European Parliament and the NATO. Graduation Project: An Analytical Study of the Economic Role of the United Nations.

1991 – 1991: Political & Administrative Researcher & Analyst in the Middle East Consulting Group (MEAG). The job also involved significant translation on topics of the privatization policies in Egypt.

February 2016: Reuters Professional Training
◦Safety, Lebanon
◦Social Media, On-line

References: (will be available upon request)