Hani Shukrallah, born 1950, is managing editor of Egypt's top newspaper, the daily Al-Ahram. He is also the Chief Editor of Al-Ahram Online, an English-language news web site, currently under construction.

During 2008 and 2009 he was founding co-Chief Editor of the Egyptian daily, Al-Shorouk (first issued on 1 February, 2009), for which he wrote a weekly column. He is also the Executive Director of the Cairo-based Heikal Foundation for Arab Journalism and former Managing Editor, then Chief Editor of the English language, Al-Ahram Weekly (1991-2005).

He wrote a regular column for Al-Ahram Weekly for more than 10 years, and has also written for Britain’s Guardian newspaper, Outlook, (India), Al-Hayat (London), and the Journal of Palestine Studies.

Shukrallah also served as a consultant with the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, one of the leading think tanks in the Middle East (2005-2008), and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States (spring semester 2006).

He is a founding member of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, and a board member of the Center for Arab and African Studies in Cairo.