Akwe Amosu

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http://www.opensocietypolicycenter.org/about/staff.php?staff_id=24

Akwe Amosu works as a Senior Policy Analyst for Africa at the Open Society Institute in Washington, DC, advocating more effective responses to Africa's challenges and more attention for Africa's civil society viewpoints in the US and wider policy community. For over 20 years she worked as a journalist and radio producer in African and Africa-targeted media. She joined allAfrica.com as its founder executive editor in 2000 and the site was twice nominated (2002 and 2003) in the Webby Awards' Best News Site category. While there, she co-founded Blog Africa. She worked previously as a host, editor and producer for the BBC World Service during the '90s, and before that at the Financial Times in London and West Africa magazine. In 2003-5, she was head of communication at the UN's Economic Commission for Africa in Ethiopia. She is on the boards of the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF), of Trust Africa and of the All Africa Foundation. She believes passionately in the value and importance to Africa of the new media tools and communities that help put power in the hands of non-governmental actors and leaders.