Rémy Ourdan is a war correspondent, reporter for Le Monde newspaper, documentary filmmaker, and president of the WARM Foundation on contemporary conflicts.

As a reporter, Ourdan began in 1992 in Sarajevo under siege and covered conflicts in Bosnia, Croatia, Congo, Eritrea-Ethiopia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Israel-Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Central African Republic. He lived in Sarajevo and Baghdad. He covered post-war eras in Bosnia, Serbia, Rwanda, and international criminal justice. He is working on international jihad, al Qaeda and the Islamic State.

Rémy Ourdan is the director of the film The Siege (co-directed with Patrick Chauvel).