Opheera McDoom (born 1977) is a journalist and Reuters correspondent. For several years, McDoom has been reporting news in Egypt and Sudan.^[1]

McDoom was born and educated in London, England^{[citation needed]} and graduated with a master's degree from the University of Edinburgh.^[2] She is of Guyanese descent^[3] and her name derives from her family's place of origin in the Essequibo Islands-West Demerara region of Guyana, McDoom village.^[2] She describes her surname as "a colonial mess-up," ascribed when the British mistakenly anglicized her father's family name. ^{[citation needed]}