Eve Conway-Ghazi

Eve Conway-Ghazi’s unwavering commitment to Rotary has continued to grow ever since she was given the life-changing opportunity of being selected as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.  Thanks to Rotary, she graduated with a Master of Science Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, the home of Rotary International.   

Eve has worked as a multimedia journalist for 35 years, including 20 years for BBC News.  One of Eve’s proudest accomplishments was starting the Rotary Young Citizen Awards in association with BBC News in 2007. 

Eve was President of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland in 2016/17.  She was Vice-Chair of Rotary International’s End Polio Now: Countdown to History Campaign Committee from 2016-2023 and a Director of the Rotary Action Group for Endangered Species from 2015-2022. 

Eve joined Redbridge Rotary Club in the London District in 2000.   She became the first female District Governor of Rotary in London in 2012/13.  She organised numerous Rotary activities in connection with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and sat on Rotary GB&I’s Olympics/Paralympics Committee.

As District Governor, Eve started a successful Vocational Training Team project with the District Governor of the Mumbai District in India to stop mothers and babies dying in childbirth in the poor, rural, tribal area of Jawhar.

Eve is passionate about achieving Rotary’s goal of a polio-free world and, as President of Rotary GB&I, launched the Purple4Polio campaign engaging Rotarians across Britain and Ireland and successfully raising public awareness about Rotary with more than 900 media reports about our End Polio Now campaign.  

She travelled with British Rotarians to take part in National Polio Immunisation Campaigns in India and arranged for the Health Correspondent from the Independent to report on this in 2017 and also filmed with TV Presenter Konnie Huq for BBC News and Rotary in 2009. 

When she was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, Eve never would have imagined that she would one day become Rotary International Director sitting on the RI Board for two years and she is delighted to be able to give back for the amazing opportunities that Rotary has given her.  

Eve and her late husband, Robert Ghazi, are Major Donors to The Rotary Foundation and members of the Bequest Society.

Outside of Rotary, Eve is Chair of The Media Circle, part of The Circle NGO founded by singer-songwriter and activist Annie Lennox to empower women and girls globally.