Jonathan Hawkins is Vice President of Communications for CNN, leading the team responsible for communications around CNN’s international editorial output across TV and digital – including CNN Arabic – as well as all communications for CNN en Español. He is a member of the CNN International executive team, a founding executive sponsor of CNN’s International Diversity Council, and a regular editorial contributor across TV and digital.
Hawkins joined CNN in 2011 and spent five years based at CNN’s EMEA hub in London, before moving to CNN International’s headquarters in Atlanta in 2016. In his time at CNN he has worked across all the international network’s major shows, including Amanpour, Connect the World with Becky Anderson, Quest Means Business, and First Move with Julia Chatterley. He has also led many high-profile communications projects, supporting editorial initiatives on the ground in Kenya, Nigeria, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Jordan, Singapore, the UAE, Switzerland, and Georgia, as well as in the US and UK.
