Fazila Dahall – Broadcaster – Media Strategist

Fazila Dahall is a broadcast journalist, foreign correspondent, multimedia producer, writer and photographer currently based in South Africa. She has covered stories around the world for over three decades reporting on politics, economics, social issues, from the front lines of conflicts and natural disasters, environment crises, healthcare access, science/innovation and trafficking.
She is the recipient of several media awards. She is involved with the AIDS Army, an organization fighting the spread of AIDS in southern Africa through education. She also works with “4Awoman” which is an ambitious project by the “AkbaralyFoundation” bringing hope to women for early cancer detection, management, and treatment

Feroz Dhomun – Consultant

Feroz worked with the National Association of Home Builders, a trade association with a membership of over 200,000 located in Washington DC for over a period of 28 years. He started in operations and when he left he was in systems support. He joined the COMMELLE team in 2017 as a consultant.

Vincent Garrigues – Associate Director Meroe Global

Author of several  travel guides and travel stories,  insatiable traveler visited over one hundred countries and producer of a unique film, auditor at the Royal African Society, member of the Huguenot Society and Friends of the Academy of Sciences Overseas, Vincent Garrigues created global MEROE in 2017.

Holder of a master’s degree in journalism from ESJ-Paris, he has been in Africa  for more  than 10 years working for Radio France Internationale, as a foreign correspondent and reporter in London, Nouméa, Johannesburg, Paris, Monaco, Abu Dhabi and Tangier.

He previously worked for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in South Africa and Algeria, responsible for the implementation of support and cooperation programs in the field of media, cultural engineering and influence monitoring. In both bilateral and multilateral domains, he led many regional initiatives in partnership with major communication groups and Mediterranean, Indo-Oceanic and African institutions.

Adviser in communication strategy to the presidency and the government of the Gabonese Republic from 2012 to 2017 Vincent Garrigues implemented a national and international strategy .

Ceara Allardyce

Ceara Allardyce is focused on telling stories through the visual art of cinematography. With a number of international and local short and feature film productions under her belt, Ceara has most recently been concentrating on filming one-to-one interviews, working alongside a well-known media trainer. Her creative and meticulous choices, pre- and post-filming, result in providing a client with the aesthetics they require while also prompting the expected emotional responses from an audience. Her attention to detail is highlighted by the use of lenses, filters, lighting techniques and camera movements to create the appropriate dramatic effect.
In her final year of achieving her BA in Cinematography from internationally-recognised South African film school AFDA, the short film on which Ceara worked, Just Roomates, was selected for screening at South Africa’s premier film festival Silwerskermfees.

Marie Christine Giblot-Ducray Events Manager

Passion for excellence in Hospitality and Catering.
With almost 30 years of invaluable experience in these fields, including culinary, service, logistic and accreditation.
Disciples Escoffier South Africa, President.

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Ishara Callan Media relations and communications consultant

Ishara Bhasi Callan is a marketing and public relations professional with a proven track record of using creative solutions to meet and exceed a company’s reputational, brand and commercial objectives. She is an emerging markets expert and specializes in international trade, international development, charity, NGOS and corporate communications.
She has a proven track record of running successful media campaigns for outfits including the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, British Asian Trust, The UK India Business Council and the Commonwealth Business Council. Before joining the corporate sector, she worked with national and international news desks. Ishara possesses valuable inside knowledge and understanding of what makes a good story.

Amreen Sriqui Broadcast Journalist

Amreen Sriqui is a broadcast journalist who covered many stories around the awful atrocities of conflicts. Her final story was after she learned that one of her dearest correspondents, Jean Baptist Kakoubi, was murdered. The ON AIR lights went off in the studio and she embarked on a different kind of journalism.
From entrepreneur to interior design Consultant….many exciting experiences and adventures later, she found herself living away from motherland Africa. Married with a little boy and girl, nowadays she is using her journalistic skills a tad differently.

Having a Masters degree in the Science of being a mom, she is only too aware that Moms don’t have time to read every ingredient on packaging, research the meaning of every unpronounceable word listed, let alone opt for making a quick meal from scratch as she stumbles through the door at 6, 7, 8 or 9 PM with kids and baby puke on her new suit having been up since 4, 5, 6 AM.

Kerry Dimmer Journalist

Kerry Dimmer is an award-winning freelance journalist and editor. Kerry writes largely on African topics for both global and local publications. Her comprehensive portfolio which can be viewed on www.kerrydimmer.com presents examples of her published articles that cover infrastructure, mining, oil & gas, energy, green building, business & finance, current affairs, as well as personality/company profiles.
Kerry is the recipient of a Diageo Africa Business Reporting Award, and the 2013 Property Feature Journalist of the Year.