Johan Eriksson (He / Him)

Media Adviser - UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Master's DegreeRoyal College of Art/the National Film and Television School, United Kingdom

Geneva, Switzerland

Summary

Worked as reporter on foreign affairs for YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company and for SVT, Swedish Television covering several wars and conflicts. Produced more than 30 documentary films for Nordic, British and Arabic broadcasters, several of them multiple award-winning. Worked with the UN as Communications Officer for UNRWA, as Public Information Specialist with UNDP in Malawi in the project to register the population for a national ID, as Media Adviser with the OHCHR Commission of Inquiry on the protests in OPT in Geneva and as Digital Content Lead with IDLO, the International Development Law Organization in Rome. Currently Media adviser with OHCHR, the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, based in Geneva.

Experience

  • media affairs / public relations
  • market research
  • writing / journalism
  • telecommunications
  • industry / manufacturing
  • syria
  • kosovo
  • malawi
  • rwanda
  • jordan
  • Sectors
  • Funders
  • Countries

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