Friday, 15th October 2010

Welcoming Laura Tyrer from South Africa to the team

Posted on 05. Oct, 2010 by Joshua Wiese in South Africa, bits

The Adopt a Negotiator team is very excited to welcome Laura Tyrer to our team. Laura is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She’s taking up the role of South African negotiator tracker - the first on our team from the African continent.

While Laura wasn’t able to join the team in Tianjin, China, she’s still going to introduce us to the South African perspective on what’s happening there; and she’ll join the team on the ground in Cancun, Mexico to track the South African negotiators.

Laura has worked as a journalist in the S. African mining industry, and she’s worked with TckTckTck partners like WWF in the non-profit space. We look forward to adding Laura’s perspective and tracking skills to the project. Stay tuned for her first post.

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Joshua Wiese is Adopt a Negotiator's Project Director. He is based in San Francisco, USA, where he spends most of his time thinking about how to use technology to make the world a better place.


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