About Us

Dr. Enock Sithole is the executive director of the South Africa-based Institute for Climate Change Communication. He is also an associate journalism lecturer at the Wits Centre for Journalism, at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he supervises student research on media studies, journalism and climate change journalism. Enock is a veteran journalist and communicator, having begun his career in 1988, rising to the positions of political editor and senior assistant editor at the New Nation newspaper. He also worked in media houses such as the SABC where he became Chief Executive of the News Division.

Njenga Hakeenah is a multimedia journalist and trainer with over 10 years of experience reporting, producing, and managing newsrooms for media organizations in Kenya and Tanzania. Having specialised in science reporting and productions, Njenga is an award-winning journalist for his climate change stories coverage. He is passionate about nature. Through the years, he has managed editorial processes and writer improvement which have enabled him to achieve his organisation’s and company’s goals. In his roles, Njenga has had to write, research, commission, and edit content from the Sub-Saharan Africa region. He has a good grasp of climate matter issues in Africa and he is now focused on telling these stories to the world from Africa. He has worked as a radio show host and news presenter as well as a commissioning editor for the publishers he has worked with.

Laura Tyrer is a South African researcher, writer and editor specialising in climate change and sustainable development. A former journalist and features editor, her experience covers an extensive range of technical writing including infrastructure, agriculture, mining, technology, science, economy, and finance. She specialises in strategic climate change communications, having driven and delivered climate comms for international non-profit organisations and associated activist campaigns. This has given her insight into the challenge of communicating complex content that competes with the immediate challenges faced by developing nations. With an academic grounding in environmental ethics, she has spent more than two decades looking to raise the media profile of environmental issues and demystify climate science.

Geraud is an accomplished writer and researcher with an extensive background in the African mining sector. He completed his undergraduate studies at Renmin University of China and has a master’s degree in International Development from the International University of Japan. Currently, he is a non-resident associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and the Africa Editor at The China-Global South Project. Previously, he worked as a project manager for a small Congolese mining company in DRC and later as a consultant on good governance and policy advocacy for the “Centre d’Etudes pour l’Action Social”.