Communications Consultant
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- Introduced an evergreen content workflow improving coordination between web and social teams, strengthening institutional responsiveness across channels.
Dalia Lourenço Levin
Communications specialist for international organizations. More than twelve years across global health, standards, development finance, European institutions and private wealth management, including seven emergency field deployments, grounded in journalism.
Career history
Communications Consultant
World Health Organization
- Led global communications for the launch of WHO's physical inactivity estimates, securing around 2,600 media mentions across priority markets within five days.
- Directed World No Tobacco Day communications, delivering 241 million Facebook impressions and 10 million Twitter impressions through coordinated global campaign messaging.
- Designed and led WHO's first influencer-driven public health advocacy campaign, addressing youth vaping risks on Instagram and TikTok and maximising the impact of a USD 40,000 grant with TikTok Ad Grant amplification.
- Deployed to seven emergency field operations — Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique, COVID-19 in Yemen and Djibouti, polio in Ukraine, yellow fever in Angola and the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh — leading risk communications and teams of up to seven staff.
- Built Djibouti's first COVID-19 communications strategy, increasing Twitter reach sixteen-fold and doubling the Facebook following within two months.
- Developed strategic presentation materials for Bloomberg Philanthropies that contributed to the renewal of a USD 5 million grant to WHO.
- Launched WHO's first donor roundtable following Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique, strengthening relationships with new government donors.
- Managed institutional reputation across disease outbreaks, global health emergencies and politically sensitive initiatives, including the Global Diabetes Compact.
Communications Manager
DCM Capital Management
- Grew the firm's LinkedIn audience by 2,000% through strategic positioning, content leadership and event-driven trust building within ultra-high-net-worth networks.
Communications Consultant
Asian Development Bank
- Interviewed officials and wrote articles, newsletters and press releases on public–private partnerships across Asia, including solid waste management in Timor-Leste, a district-heating upgrade in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and the Philippines' digitised national ID system.
Social Media Consultant
Inter-Parliamentary Union
- Developed the social media strategy, content and campaign evaluation for the International Day of Democracy.
Communications Officer
European Commission
- Led communications for the Internal Market Information (IMI) system within DG MARKT: produced a communication video, organised training seminars for national coordinators, and wrote and edited the user handbook, newsletters and surveys.
Copywriter
Government of Qatar
- Articles and technical pages for Hukoomi, the official government web portal.
Journalist
Sky News · CTV Canada AM · NewsCore · CKRH FM Halifax
- Print, web and broadcast newsroom experience across television, wire service and radio.
Degrees & exchanges
MA International Broadcast Journalism, with Merit
City, University of London
- Specialism in health and science journalism; coursework in digital journalism.
Bachelor of Journalism, Honours
University of King's College
- Exchange terms at Universidad de Málaga, Spain and Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.