Speakers

Anouk is a Brussels-born communication professional with extensive experience covering humanitarian crises. After obtaining an MA in communication science from the VUB (Free University of Brussels) her interest in other cultures and war reporting landed her a job a press officer and campaigner at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She handled media relations, facilitating access for journalists and photographers during the Rwanda genocide, the war in ex-Yugoslavia, the HIV/AIDS emergency, and the famine in South Sudan with extensive travel to the field before taking on the role of MSF’s international communication coordinator. She was the Belgian development agency Enabel’s first external communication advisor and worked as a campaigner against overfishing for WWF. A staunch believer in the European project, she joined ECHO’s field network in 2012, with assignments as Regional Information Officer based out of Senegal, Kenya and Jordan before returning to Dakar in 2023. Anouk and her colleagues cast their efforts on responding to the under-reported humanitarian crises in the Sahel and revealing the plight of people in need far removed from the spotlights.

Anouk Delafortrie is moderating the session(s) mentioned below.