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Radi Suudi Radi Suudi MSc (Hilversum, the Netherlands, 1957) is a journalist, documentary maker and Diversity and Inclusion consultant, living in the Netherlands. Family background Radi Suudi has a Palestinian/Dutch background. His mother, Maria Kreuger was Dutch, his father Musa Suudi el Alami was a Palestinian Arab from one of the Arab families in Jerusalem, where Radi’s father was born in 1920. Radi’s father joined the BBC in London in 1946 as a newsreader for the Arabic section of the BBC Worldservice. In 1956 Radi’s father left the BBC to become a Arabic newsreader at the Radio Nederland Worldservice in the Dutch town of Hilversum. From 1962 until his retirement in 1985 Radi’s father taught Arabic at the University of Amsterdam. Professional background in diversity and inclusion Radi obtained his Masters in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam. During the eighties Radi worked as a freelance journalist for several newspapers, magazines and for Dutch radio. In 1992 Radi Suudi became coordinator of the national secretariat of the Dutch Union of Migrant Organisations LSOBA. This organisation consisted of more than 300 migrant unions and organisations of refugees living in the Netherlands. In this function Radi was asked by the Dutch Minister of Welfare and Social Affairs to cooperate with the managers of six other important migrant organisations in order to devise a structure and a policy plan for a new Dutch national expertise centre working on all matters concerning diversity and inclusion in Dutch society. This centre was founded in 1995 under the name FORUM, Institute for Multicultural Development. It was financed by the Dutch government and had an independent status as an important centre of research and policy advise. Radi Suudi became manager of the department for Public Affairs of FORUM and in that capacity was also a member of the management team of FORUM, which was responsible for the strategic management of the organisation. In 1999 Radi Suudi left FORUM to work with his partner Leila Jaffar at Jaffar Consultancy, a firm that Leila Jaffar founded in 1992. Radi Suudi has worked at Jaffar Consultancy since then, as a senior policy advisor and trainer. Jaffar Consultancy is a firm, specializing in all matters of diversity and intercultural communication. Jaffar Consultancy has worked over the years for many organisations and government ministries, training and coaching internal professionals of these organisations in all matters having to do with a diverse workforce and/or clients from diverse backgrounds. The last few years Radi Suudi, together with Leila Jaffar, has been specializing in the training and coaching of professional mediators in intercultural communication, negotiating and problem solving skills.

Journalistic work Radi Suudi also did free-lance work as a journalist and presenter for Dutch television and radio from 2004 onwards. He presented a live radio programme on Radio5, one of the channels of Dutch public radio, where he interviewed writers, politicians and social scientists on all matters concerning the multicultural society in the Netherlands. He also hosted several special programmes on Dutch television, such as a round table discussion after the murder in Amsterdam in 2004 of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a radicalised Muslim. In 2013 Radi Suudi directed a series of four documentaries, under the title ‘The Green Line’ that covered developments in Jerusalem, Beirut, Tunis and Istanbul. The documentaries were broadcast on Dutch television in the fall of 2013. External links Jaffar Consultancy www.jaffar.nl/en Professional background http://jaffar.nl/en/onsbureau/28-team_jaffar_consultancy Episodes 1-4 of (English subtitles) of the documentary series The Green Line, directed and produced by Radi Suudi for Dutch public television: https://vimeo.com/channels/greenline Radi Suudi’s production company Lime Line Media : https://www.limelinemedia.com/