Caroline is responsible for the BBC World Service Trust's work in Africa.
Caroline has worked on human rights and development in diverse contexts, managing major NGOs and the UN’s operations and advocacy across Africa and the Balkans on long-term development, humanitarian programming and human rights. Immediately prior to joining the BBC, she worked at Amnesty International’s Secretariat as Global Policy Director, and as the Deputy Director of Africa.
In her home country of Canada, she has designed public health, HIV and legal advocacy programmes for young sex-workers and injection drug users, and set up Canada’s first bilingual multi-cultural women and AIDS projects. Caroline has graduate degrees in Political Science and International Human Rights Law.
