Allan Leonard is a Northern Ireland peace journalist and editor of Shared Future News, which reports on peacebuilding in Northern Ireland. He served as managing director at the Northern Ireland Foundation, an independent charity established to promote peace and reconciliation, where he also gained international experience supporting programmes in other divided societies. His professional background includes project and staff management, fundraising, and marketing and communication. Allan is co-founder and editor-in-chief at FactCheckNI, Northern Ireland's first dedicated fact-checking service.