Ramita Navai

Ramita Navai is a double Emmy and double Robert F. Kennedy award-winning British-Iranian investigative journalist, documentary maker and author. With a reputation for working in hostile environments, she has reported from over forty countries, made over thirty documentaries and features and worked as a foreign correspondent for print.

She began her career as the Tehran correspondent for The Times, also covering Afghanistan and Pakistan. For Channel 4's Unreported World, Ramita reported and produced 20 documentaries - from investigating blood diamonds in Zimbabwe to sex trafficking in Mexico, the war in South Sudan, child prisoners in Burundi and migrant torture camps in Egypt. She won an Emmy for her PBS documentary Syria Undercover.

Ramita produced Iraq Uncovered for PBS Frontline and ISIS and the Battle for Iraq for Channel 4, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the British Journalism Award for Foreign Affairs and the Frontline Club Broadcast Journalism Award. Iraq Uncovered was also nominated for two Emmys. She reported and produced the U.N. Sex Abuse Scandal which won the Robert. F. Kennedy 2019 Journalism Award for International Television.

NO COUNTRY FOR WOMEN for ITV was the result of Ramita's six month investigation into the Taliban’s treatment of women, exposing mass arrests and abductions. It won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigation, a Grierson Award for Best Current Affairs Documentary, a DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, a Rose d’Or Award and an Overseas Press Club of America Award.

In 2022 Ramita was awarded the Women in Film & TV News and Factual Award, which recognises outstanding achievement by a woman in this field . In 2023 Ramita won the Royal Society of Television Presenter of the Year Award, the Edinburgh TV Festival Best Factual TV Presenter Award and a Gracie Award for International Investigation.

For her latest documentary, she reported from the Occupied West Bank for PBS Frontline.

Her book City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran won the Debut Political Book of the Year at the 2015 Political Book Awards, and was awarded the Royal Society of Literature's Jerwood Prize for non-fiction.

She appeared as herself in episode 1 of the final series of the TV show Homeland.