University of Westminster

University of Pune

Loyola High School & Junior College Pune

Director in EU & global #publicaffairs. Journalism, content, video, communications & marketing since 2000. 🇧🇪 since 2009 via 🇨🇳, 🇬🇧, 🇸🇬 & 🇮🇳. Strictly non-boring.

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

- Establishing company-wide editorial processes to systematically capture, produce, publish and analyse web and social media-friendly digital content to organically market FIPRA's expertise across major industry sectors.
-  Leading marketing & communications for the FIPRA Network, a collective of independent public affairs agencies with presence in more than 50 countries worldwide.
-  Designing mindful strategies to plan and run FIPRA webinars.

FIPRA Public Affairs

Marketing & Communications Director

- Developing FIPRA's digital content production and corporate marketing strategy.
-  Overseeing production, posting and analytics of digital content on company website and social media accounts.
-  Guiding FIPRA Business Units and Network team in planning and drafting editorial and marketing material to showcase and promote FIPRA’s work.

Digital Content & Communications Lead

- Producing & editing multimedia coverage of the global hotel industry. <a href="https://tophotel.news/">https://tophotel.news/</a>
-  Running TopHotelNews with focus on growing readership, quality control, establishing and implementing editorial voice and best practices across lean remote team.
-  Strategic communications: Covid19 crisis comms, reputation management, editing & copywriting communication material, overseeing automated text publishing project. PR, media training and editorial support across company platforms.
-  Video & print interview series with leaders of hospitality at global TopHotelWorldTour events.
-  Self-produced multimedia content on location: interviews, corporate videos, tutorials, event summary videos.

TOPHOTELPROJECTS

Multimedia Editor-in-Chief

- Video producer for TopHotelWorldTour, a series of global networking events for the who's who in the luxury hotel industry. <a href="http://www.thpworldtour.com/">http://www.thpworldtour.com/</a>
-  Producing expert interview series featuring thought-leaders in the hotel industry.
-  Editing & copywriting communication material.

Freelance Multimedia Producer & Editor

- Communications support for WHO's Global Influenza Programme Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Secretariat.
-  Drafting key messages, content for WHO website, op-eds, feature stories, newsletters, leaflets.
-  Editing publications, reports and technical documents.

World Health Organization

Communications Consultant, Global Influenza Programme

- First Indian national to be hired by Xinhua Europe.
- News analyses/features on economy, current affairs, Europe-China trends, picked up globally.
- Copy-editing stories, features & news pieces.

Xinhua News Agency

Multimedia Journalist/Senior Copyeditor

- Self-produced multimedia content on diabetes awareness.
- Advocacy, comms strategy & campaigning for World Diabetes Day, NCD Alliance, High-level UN Summit on NCDs.
- Presentations, speeches, briefing/position statements, media training of key staff.
- Global media outreach for projects: launching diabetes data, IDF humanitarian programs, etc
- Writing/releasing press releases, crisis communications, liaising between national associations.
- Represented IDF at UN discussion panels, international conferences. Special focus on India, China.

International Diabetes Federation

Multimedia Specialist

- First Indian journalist reporting Brussels terror attacks live.
-  First Indian journalist reporting live during attempted military coup from Istanbul, Turkey.
-  Camera, production during Paris terror attacks, Indian PM visit to Brussels.
-  Reports on Asia-Europe summit in Beijing, Greek debt crisis, Arcelor Mittal Steel plant in Luxembourg, endosulphan ban in Geneva.
-  Contributor to <a href="http://NDTV.com">NDTV.com</a> with news reports, opinion pieces.

NDTV

Freelance Contributor

- Helped set up CRI’s multimedia desk. Shot, produced and edited online video content, including viral report on China’s richest village.
- Conducted training for colleagues in TV, broadcast skills.
- Stringing and liaison for leading Indian TV news station NDTV; covered Olympics, current affairs.

China Radio International (CRI)

Video Journalist/Senior Copyeditor

- First Indian national to be hired in CRI’s English service in its 60 years of broadcasting.
- Copy-edited radio scripts and web stories.

Senior Copyeditor, English desk

- First intern to stay on to work as a Commonwealth communications officer.
- Advocacy for Commonwealth’s youth, education, gender and health departments.

The Commonwealth

Web & Communications Consultant

- Winning candidate selected out of 8 Asian countries.
- Wrote weekly Commonwealth news bulletin, editorials, web content and publicity material.
- Freelanced for Singapore’s Today newspaper, conducted celebrity interviews.

Commonwealth News & Information Service intern

- Sub-editing, laying out pages and writing for MediaCorp Press’ compact English daily.
- Wrote weekend, sports, foreign, feature and entertainment stories.
- Live weekly appearances on national TV presenting the weekend edition of the newspaper.

Mediacorp Pte Ltd

Sub-editor/Writer, Today newspaper

- Wrote first front-page article at age 16.
- Wrote human interest, current affairs and investigative stories. Also Bollywood, entertainment, youth affairs and lifestyles reporter specialized in personality interviews.
- Correspondent for Riding High, a horse-racing chronicle in Mumbai and Pune.

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