ACT Chapter Event - Keynote Speaker Damian Cardona Onses, Director of the United Nations Information Centre
VENUE: Australian National University, Level 2, 121 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra
DATE: Tuesday 30th April
TIME: 5.30 - 7.30 pm AEST
We are thrilled to invite you to our upcoming event featuring guest speaker Damian Cardona Onses, Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Canberra. The United Nations Information Centre in Canberra provides services to Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
Mr. Cardona will share his expertise on the topic "Disinformation, a powerful weapon in the hands of everyone and no one."
Mr. Cardona has more than 26 years of experience in strategic communications, crisis communications, outreach and campaigns within the United Nations system. Before his appointment to Canberra, he served as United Nations Information Centre Director in Dakar, Senegal (covering French-speaking Africa) and in Bogota (covering Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela). In 2021, he was seconded to the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia as Chief of Strategic Communications and Public Information.
Having served in peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mali and Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Cardona was also Chief of Media Relations and Spokesperson for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and Special Adviser to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General.
Before joining the United Nations, Mr. Cardona was based in Amman, Jordan, from 1998 to 2002 as Regional Middle East Communications Delegate for the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC). He had been the Director of International Relations for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization-sponsored Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004.
Mr. Cardona holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Barcelona and master’s degree on international relations from the Institut d’Études Politiques in Grenoble, France. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Catalan, and has a good working knowledge of Haitian Creole, Italian and Portuguese.
The event will take place over drinks and nibbles, providing the perfect opportunity to meet and mingle with fellow ACT Chapter members and guests.
To register for this event, please click below Members: $30, and Guests welcome: $35.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact ACT Chapter Co-Lead George Hlaing HERE.