Director of CommunicationsTogether for Girls
I'm Director of Communications for a small international NGO which works in partnership with both much larger global organisations (WHO, UNICEF, CDC) and on the ground local partners to end violence against children. Our approach is to use data and evidence to drive advocacy and action. We help governments measure and categorise the levels of violence through comprehensive surveys and devise action plans and interventions based on that data. It works. Subsequent studies show very large drops in violence against children. I've also been a Comms Director now in global reproductive health care with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and basic education provision with NewGlobe. Prior to that I was a journalist, and was an editor and senior manager in BBC News for 18 years, latterly working across all its World Service language services.