Jairo Lugo-Ocando is Professor and Dean of the College of Communication at the University of Sharjah. He previously served as Director (Assistant Dean) for Graduate Studies and Executive Education at Northwestern University in Qatar and as Deputy Head of the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.
Over the course of his career, he has secured more than US$1.1 million in external research funding from leading institutions, including the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Qatar National Research Fund, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities in Scotland. He is also a recipient of the Theodore C. Sorensen Fellowship from the John F. Kennedy Library and has been a visiting fellow at the National University of Singapore.
His publications include Science Journalism in the Arab World (2023), The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and in Times of Crises (Routledge, 2020), Media & Governance in Latin America: Towards a Plurality of Voices (Peter Lang, 2020), and Foreign Aid and Journalism in the Global South: A Mouthpiece for Truth (Lexington Books, 2020).