Yasmine joined TNH in 2023. In her role, Yasmine provides administrative executive support to the CEO and management team; acts as board secretary for both the Swiss and US boards and supports strategic initiatives, and helped ensure a smooth transition to the new CEO in early 2024. Yasmine has a rich and varied background that includes research, data collection & analysis, project/programme management, donor reporting, and communications. Yasmine is a committed feminist passionate about gender equality and peace building. She has done consultancies with the WHO, the Oak Foundation, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Interpeace, Kvinna till Kvinna, RNW Media, Oxfam, among others, with a particular focus on gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and the Middle East. She graduated with an MSc in International Health from KIT, the Royal Tropical Institute in the Netherlands and a BA in Anthropology from the American University in Cairo (AUC). Yasmine is of Egyptian/French origin and is fluent in Arabic, French and English. She was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt and is currently based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ali currently lives in Kabul, where he was born, before moving to California as a child. Since his career began in 2007, Ali has reported from Washington DC, Greece, Turkey, Qatar, and Afghanistan, among other locations. He has covered the struggles Afghan refugees face in Greece and Turkey since 2013. Ali has also written extensively on the Taliban in Doha and is a frequent commentator on Afghan issues for radio and television news. In Afghanistan, he has travelled across at least 20 of the country’s 34 provinces, where he has covered everything from drone strikes and civilian casualties to singing competitions and the cost of marriage in remote areas.

Andrew joined TNH in 2015. He is a journalist and editor whose 12-year career at Agence France-Presse (AFP) took him from Paris to London to Hong Kong to Washington via short stints in Jakarta, Jerusalem, Moscow, Baghdad and Port-au-Prince. His final years at AFP were spent as Deputy Desk Chief for North America, running the editorial output for the Americas and covering Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.

Annie is an award-winning journalist, editor and creative storyteller who has worked in the Middle East for more than ten years. Some of her recent work includes The Yemen Listening Project – an innovative work of Arabic-English participatory journalism – and "WhatsApp, Lebanon?" which tells the story of Lebanon’s economic collapse through the WhatsApp messages of five people. Annie holds a Masters in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Ciara joined TNH as Multimedia Editor after 13 years as a video journalist at Reuters. Ciara has a wealth of both field and desk-based experience in producing and designing stories to reach broadcast and digital audiences. Ciara leads efforts to further develop our multimedia offerings, and deepen our engagement with audiences across various channels and platforms.

Daniela is a journalist and editor with international experience, who has worked for Chilean and foreign media, such as CNN International Digital News and El País América. She has won multiple awards for her work on human rights violations, including the book “La búsqueda” (Planeta, 2022) about the killing of President Salvador Allende´s closest advisors after the 1973 coup d´état in Chile. She holds a master in French-German relations from the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University in Paris and a master from UC Berkeley´s Graduate School of Journalism. She is based in Santiago and speaks Spanish, French, English and Italian.

Eric is an award-winning journalist who has reported extensively on migration in the Mediterranean and at the US-Mexico border. He started his career reporting on post-Arab Spring political developments in the Middle East and North Africa and has been writing for TNH (then IRIN News) as a freelancer since 2017. He joined us as Migration Editor-at-large in 2020 and became full-time staff in 2022. Eric received the 2021 Elizabeth Neuffer Award Gold Medal for his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants. His work has also appeared in WIRED Magazine, The New Republic, Mother Jones, and The Nation, among other outlets.

Freddie began her career working on African News, Arts and Current Affairs at the BBC World Service in London. After a brief stint reporting from Zanzibar, Freddie produced at NPR in Washington, D.C. for five years. In 2015, a move back to the Arabian Gulf – where she grew up – introduced her to podcasting. She has since led production and editing for a range of podcasts, from Tiny Spark and Foreign Policy to Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women.

Irwin covers the trends and decision-making behind humanitarian response, and what they mean for people living in crises. He joined TNH in 2018, reporting and editing stories from across Asia and the Pacific, before shifting to policy coverage in 2022. Before TNH, he filed print, radio, and multimedia stories as a freelance correspondent and worked closely with journalists in Asia. He started out in newspapers reporting on local and provincial politics in Canada.

Jacob is an award-winning journalist who has reported extensively on human rights abuses and humanitarian crises in Southeast Asia. He previously served as Managing Editor at Coconuts Yangon, where his coverage of Myanmar’s atrocities against the Rohingya received an award from the Society of Publishers in Asia in 2017. He later served as Editor-in-Chief at New Naratif, where he and a team of reporters based in Thailand and Cambodia received a Human Rights Media Award from Amnesty International Thailand in 2021 for an investigation into the unsolved disappearance of Thai activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit. He received a second award from the Society of Publishers in Asia in 2020 for a freelance investigation into sexual abuse in Myanmar’s nonprofit sector. Jacob’s work has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, VICE, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among other outlets. He has a degree in International Development from UCLA. He joined TNH in 2022.

Janine is TNH’s Impact Editor, where she focuses on empowering ethical journalism. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the Geneva Graduate Institute, where her research on humanitarian security management in Ethiopia and Switzerland highlighted how security practices perpetuate colonial legacies and result in exclusions and violence within urban landscapes. In her work she advocates for inclusive methodologies that challenge the colonial gaze and aims to empower marginalised voices in shaping alternative narratives. She has collaborated with photojournalists on aid security practices in Addis Ababa and has consulted for organisations such as the ILO and OCHA in Burkina Faso, Colombia and Ethiopia. Janine speaks English, French, and German and currently lives in Geneva.

Marc is a full stack web developer with skills in digital storytelling, data visualisation, and interaction design. Before joining The New Humanitarian in 2019, he worked as an interactive news designer for the award-winning Interaktiv Team in one of Switzerland’s largest newsrooms. Now based in South Africa, Marc ensures that the TNH website stays online and continually improves in user-friendliness and functionality. He stands behind projects such as WhatsApp Lebanon and the Yemen Listening Project, showcasing his passion for visual storytelling. Marc was born in Switzerland and speaks German, English, and French.

Marthe is TNH’s Podcast Producer. She covered the Horn of Africa region as a radio correspondent, followed by a stint reporting on the European Union. She worked as a humanitarian media adviser with Oxfam before moving to London. Prior to TNH, she worked as a radio journalist and podcast producer with VOAnews, HuffPost, Vice, and more. Marthe holds a BA in Journalism and an MPhil in African Studies.

Melissa is an award-winning journalist and audio producer based in Toronto. She produces and co-hosts TNH’s flagship podcast, Rethinking Humanitarianism. Before TNH, Melissa was a producer, reporter and editor on Monument Lab’s Plot of Land, a podcast that explores how race and power shaped the American housing system. Melissa spent several years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) where she produced national radio programming and podcasts, including the acclaimed Black on the Prairies project. She has also freelanced for University Affairs Magazine, Historica Canada, the University of Calgary, and Blue Wire Podcasts. Melissa has a BA in environment and development, and an MSc in urban sociology.

Namukabo is a trained journalist and communicator with a decade of experience in multimedia news production. Before joining TNH, she worked with the BBC, where she was part of the team that pioneered the first fact-checking television programme and a COVID-10 special programme. As the appointed BBC Storytelling Ambassador for Africa, she mentored and trained the youth in the art of storytelling techniques. Prior to the BBC, she worked at Nation Media Group, where, in her final days, she covered Kenya’s general election in the Nyanza region, a political hotspot in the country. She is a multi-award-winning journalist who was named Journalist of the Year in Kenya in 2023, as well as the pioneer of the Merck More Than a Mother Media Awards TV winner in 2017.

Obi was previously editor-in-chief of IRIN, the predecessor to TNH. He has extensive experience covering the Global South, and is a regular media commentator on violent extremism and peace building. He took time out from journalism to research jihadist insurgent recruitment as an Open Society Fellow, and is meant to be writing a book on it — which is yet to materialise. Obi holds an MA in Peace and Conflict studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Patrick joined TNH in 2023 as our first Senior Editor for Inclusive Storytelling, working with us to lead the way in decolonising coverage of humanitarian crises. Patrick is known for his commentaries and cartoons published in Al Jazeera, The Star (Kenya), The Washington Post, and The Elephant. He was previously curator-in-chief of The Elephant, where he spent six years building out a newsroom, which included everything from establishing editorial policies, recruiting and mentoring journalists from around Africa, getting partnerships off the ground, and editing all types of content. As Senior Editor for Inclusive Storytelling, Patrick works to expand our networks of local contributors around the globe, while also spearheading a new programme for TNH journalism fellows. Patrick works across the newsroom – and the organisation – to explore formats that challenge some of the Western-centric narrative habits of traditional journalism and that allow us and the communities we cover to more easily co-create content.

Philip joined TNH in 2019 as a correspondent and editor. He is a multimedia journalist and editor with extensive experience covering conflict, peacebuilding, human rights, and humanitarian issues, with a focus on Africa. He has reported on insurgencies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and Congo-Brazzaville, militancy in the West African Sahel, and political transitions in Sudan and South Sudan. He has investigated corruption in humanitarian aid, sexual abuse in UN peacekeeping missions, and human rights abuses in multiple countries.

Sofía is a Guatemalan-Taiwanese multimedia producer and project manager. Before joining the TNH team, she studied journalism in Taiwan and specialised in journalism and politics during her Master’s in Denmark and the Netherlands. She speaks Spanish, English, and Mandarin-Chinese.

Whitney heads our audience and product team – handling audio, visual, and web content – and audience engagement strategy to maximise the reach and impact of our journalism.

Will is TNH’s Staff Editor and Reporter for Policy. Prior to joining us, Will was Climate Correspondent at Devex, and before that covered UK aid policy. He was shortlisted for an award in 2021 for his reporting on the UK government's aid budget cuts and DFID merger. He also worked as a freelance journalist, internationally and for the UK national press.

Emmeline has been a part of TNH’s external relations team since 2016 and has played a key role in acquiring a pool of more than 20 donors. Her involvement has ranged from the development of bespoke pitches and proposals to being responsible for reporting back to donors, including tracking and communicating TNH’s impact against our theory of change. Emmeline joined TNH in 2015 as an editorial intern and was also briefly Editorial Assistant before making the switch to External Relations Officer. She became External Relations Lead in 2022. She graduated from City University with a degree in journalism and speaks English and French.

Jijo joined TNH as an External Relations Officer. He is supporting TNH’s efforts to expand its funding base including with private and institutional donors. He comes with an experience of over 10 years, working with philanthropic foundations and fundraising for nonprofits in India, including a stint as Major Donors Manager with Amnesty International India. Jijo holds an MA in Economics from University of Mumbai and BA in Economics from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. He speaks English, Hindi and Malayalam.

Aimee is TNH’s first Chief Operating Officer. She joined the team from the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), where she managed human resources for 8,600 staff working across its international operations. She has experience in safeguarding, accountability, change management, organisational design, and process optimisation. Aimee also led efforts to make DRC a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. Aimee has more than 25 years of experience working within the humanitarian sector, beginning her career in humanitarian coordination in countries affected by conflict. She has also served as a policy officer in humanitarian reform and as chief of strategic planning at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Antonia joined TNH to support the Operations team with admin and finance tasks. She has a Bachelor in Economics and Management from the University of Geneva and has plans to further her studies in the future. Antonia has experience in administration, executive assistance, and project management. She is fluent in English, French, Greek, and Albanian.

Elisa attended business school in Geneva, graduating as an accountant. She then worked for five years as an accountant at Piramedia Group, one of the largest call centres in Switzerland, before joining TNH’s admin team to support on finance and admin tasks. Elisa speaks English, French, and her mother tongue, Lingala.

Jill has the experience and skills we need to navigate TNH through the transition from startup to scale-up, and to ensure we have the right financial policies and controls in place to meet donor expectations. Jill has 20+ years of experience working in finance. She is a Certified Public Accountant, and has an ACCA Diploma in International Financial Reporting Standards and brings a wealth of experience.