Nadia Al-Sakkaf

Nadia Al-Sakkaf (born March 1978) is a Yemeni journalist and politician. She was the editor in chief of the Yemen Times from 2005 until 2014, before becoming Yemen's first female Information Minister. She fled Yemen in 2015 after the coup and is currently a PhD researcher at Reading University in the United Kingdom.

In 2011, Al-Sakkaf gave a popular TED talk called "See Yemen through my eyes".

Al-Sakkaf was born in March 1978 to Aziza and Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf. Her father was a lecturer in economics at Sana'a University, a founder of the Arab Organization for Human Rights and founded the Yemen Times in 1991. She has two brothers and two sisters.

Al-Sakkaf has a Bachelor of Engineering in computer science from the Birla Institute of Technology in India and a Master of Science in Information Systems Management from the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom. She was a student member of Amnesty International. As of 2016, she is studying for a PhD at Reading University.

Al-Sakkaf worked as a systems analyst at the Arab Experts Center for Consultancy and Systems. She joined the Yemen Times in July 2000 as a translator and reporter. The newspaper is the country's first independent English language newspaper and was started by her father in 1991. He died in 1999 after being hit by a car, although Al-Sakkaf and her brother believe he was assassinated for opposing the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. She became an assistant editor in September 2000.

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