Jon Williams is Managing Director of RTÉ News & Current Affairs - Ireland's national broadcaster - based in Dublin. Until 2017, he spent 4 years in New York as Managing Editor for international news at ABC. He led the network's reporting of the war against ISIS, and the world's fight against Ebola in West Africa as well as the terror attacks across Europe, and the continent's refugee crisis, which earned him a third Emmy.

Before moving to New York, Jon spent seven years as World Editor at the BBC, where he managed a staff of 200 people in 30 different countries, shaping the organization's news coverage and strategy. Jon has traveled extensively to Afghanistan, China and the Middle East. He led the BBC's coverage of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Israel-Lebanon War, the 2008 Olympics and the U.S. presidential elections. In 2007, the BBC's coverage of the Israel-Lebanon conflict won an international Emmy. He oversaw the organization's reporting of the civil war in Syria, which was honored with the 2013 News Emmy, as well as the International Prize by the Royal Television Society.

As the executive running international field operations, Jon led crisis response teams following the murder of one colleague by terrorists in Saudi Arabia, the five-month kidnap of another, and two separate incidents in Syria - all of which ended with the safe return of those detained.

A passionate defender of press freedom, Jon sits on the board of the global advocacy organization, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and is a trustee of the International News Safety Institute.