Riyaad Minty MANAGER OF DIGITAL STRATEGY, TRT WORLD

Riyaad Minty is the Manager of Digital Strategy at TRT World. Previously, he founded AJ+, one of the world’s largest news publishers for a digital generation, in San Francisco as part of the Al Jazeera Media Network. Riyaad spent a decade at Al Jazeera as part of the network’s New Media team, building the networks global strategy across social platforms as the Head of Social Media. He is recognised as a leader in the space of digital media and regularly speaks at conferences and universities around the world on the shifts within the media industry. He joined TRT World in Istanbul in 2016 to help build the digital arm of the new network.