Dalia Lourenço
Communications professional with a background in print, web and broadcast journalism. Lived worked and lived in over seven countries working with various organisations including the European Commission and the World Health Organization.
Holds a Bachelor of Journalism (Honours) from the University of King’s College, Canada and an MA International Broadcast Journalism from City University London.
Looking forward to bringing my multimedia expertise to your projects!
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The World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland) ( – Present)
Communications Consultant
Social Media Team, Department of Communications
• Increasing engagement and delivering WHO messages on social media
• Developing social media campaigns, including World Blood Donor Day, World Breastfeeding Week, Suicide Prevention Day, World Humanitarian Day
• Advancing WHO reform through the development of an enterprise social network for WHO staff
• Producing the WHO daily media monitoring report
Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), Department of Vaccines and Biologicals
• Production of communications and advocacy messages and products related to the Polio Strategic Plan as well as broader immunization issues
• Creation of the HPV vaccination website with all necessary resources for the development of HPV
vaccination programmes
• EPI sites restructuring, including participation in the design of a global WHO web vaccine strategy
- Content management and launching the HPV vaccine website
The European Commission (2011-2012)
IMI (Internal Market Information System) in DG-MARKT (Brussels, Belgium)
Representation of the European Commission (Lisbon, Portugal)
Communication Officer
- Political analysis reports, news articles and social media.
- IMI communication strategy for the 2012 Governance Report
- Copywriting and revamping the YourEurope website
The Government of Qatar (2010-2011)
Copywriter
- Articles and technical pages for Hukoomi, the official government web portal
Newsroom experience
- Sky News
- CTV CanadaAM
- NewsCore wire service
- CKRH FM Radio Halifax-Métro
Education
- City University London Masters of Arts in International Broadcast Journalism (with Merit)
- St. Petersburg State University Exchange term, Russia
- Universidad de Málaga Exchange term, Spain
- The University of King’s College Bachelor of Journalism (Honours)
Languages
- English (Native)
- French (Native)
- Spanish (Fluent)
- Portuguese (Fluent)
- Arabic (Elementary)
- Russian (Elementary)
Computer Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Apple FinalCut Pro
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Audition
- Adobe Photoshop
- iNews
- WordPress