MEET THE HOST

Sanja Göhre is a multi-skilled audio-visual and content producer whose career spans over 25 years. She has travelled widely to cover stories from a range of different countries, including Albania, Angola, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Greece, Kenya, Mozambique, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

 

Some of her most formative professional years were spent in Geneva, Switzerland, where she worked within the United Nations system for four years, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the newly founded The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. 

 

Back home in South Africa, she led a small research team working on the National Heritage Monument’s Long March to Freedom (a collection of 100 life-size bronzes of some of Africa’s most iconic liberation heroes) and then managed 10 southern African countries as Senior Communications Manager for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

 

Sanja has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Journalism and Politics and a Joint Honours in Economics and Journalism from Rhodes University, South Africa, and a Masters in Social Sciences from the Open University, United Kingdom.

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She is an avid advocate of human-centred design and has added to her skills by studying UX Design through the Interaction Design Foundation, as she believes the discipline of UX thinking can be usefully applied to some of Africa’s most pressing problems, especially climate change and economic development.