Mahmoud Bouneb is the Executive General Manager of Al Jazeera Children’s Channel, is a veteran broadcaster with more than 25 years experience of international journalism and media.

Mahmoud came to prominence in 1979 when he began a series of high profile roles that soon established him as an international media expert. The positions varied from Press Advisor in Iraq to Head of Communication and Press at the League of Arab States’ office in Ottawa, Canada.

He then, moved to Switzerland with the assignment of Editor in the International Department at the Swiss Radio and TV Corporation. And subsequently took on the role of Chief Editor of Arab Programmes for Dutch International Radio and Television NOS. Mahmoud was later appointed head of the Arab Service at the Swiss Radio International, where he stayed for more than seven years.

In the late Nineties, he moved to the Middle East and became Advisor to the Chairman of Board of Al Jazeera Channel and President of Qatar Radio and TV Corporation. In 2003, he was appointed Executive General Manager for Al Jazeera Children’s Channel, a project he had been working on for the previous two years.

Mahmoud, 50, holder of a Masters degree in Literature and Civilization from The Sorbonne, is married and has two children (Emna 20 and Mehdi 14).