Hanan Zaffar is a media practitioner, multimedia storyteller and a documentary film maker based out of India. His work primarily focuses on South Asian politics, minorities, human rights and environment. Zaffar’s work from the region has appeared in The Time Magazine, Guardian, VICE, Al Jazeera, Business Insider, Deutsche Welle (DW), TRT World, Newsweek, Euro News, The Diplomat, Middle East Eye, Channel 4, and other reputed international media houses.

He is the recipient of several grants from International Centre for Journalists (ICJ), University of Sheffield, and Human Rights & Religious Freedom (HRRF) Awards.

Zaffar is one of the few reporters from the South Asia to be part of the Story Killers project, where more than 100 journalists from 30 countries worked to expose the inner workings of the global, secretive world of disinformation mercenaries. He has also jointly received the “HRRF Best Text Reporting on Human Rights & Religious Freedom Award” for his investigative writings on discrimination against minorities and marginalized in India.

Zaffar has also reported on Indian minorities and their marginalization for alternate media houses like The Wire, Newslaundry, The Quint, Caravan Magazine, Article 14, Outlook Magazine and Newsclick, among others.

He currently teaches in JIBS and looks after its flagship media ensemble JIBS Infotainment, that aims at rendering complex academic subject matter into formats that are palatable and comprehensible to a lay audience, thereby bridging the gap between scholarly inquiry and public understanding.

The films on issues of gender based violence, and psychosocial issues produced by him for the institute have won several awards at international film festivals like Cefalu Film Festival (Italy), Erronka Munduan , Kursaal Film Festival (Spain), Jagran Film Festival (India), among others.

He has qualified University Grants Commission’s National Eligibility Test (NET) in 2020.