A Conversation with Sausan Ghosheh, Senior Partnership Adviser, UNDP

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy and USC Annenberg School of Journalism were pleased to host Sausan Ghosheh, Senior Partnership Adviser, United Nations Development Program and spokesperson for the UN Supervision Mission in Syria for the CPD-Journalism Directors' Forum.

Sausan Ghosheh reported on her work with the UN during the conflict in Syria and more broadly reflect on the UN’s role in delivering information about its activities to the world. Ms.Ghosheh has been on the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in Syria, and has observed the media coverage (and lack of coverage) from this combat zone, including the use of social media to get the story to publics throughout the world. Her regular job with the United Nations Development Program allows her to watch the UN in its role of helping to bring greater economic equity to the world.

Prior to her work at the U.N., Ms. Ghosheh was CNN´s Senior Producer in the Middle East, responsible for news and feature stories coming out of the West Bank and Gaza from 1995–2005. During this time she covered Israeli politics and served as on-site producer for all major events in the Middle East. She has dual Bachelor’s degrees in Government and Politics and in Radio, Television and Film from the University of Maryland, College Park. She received her Master’s degree from Georgetown University in Arab Studies. She is an alumna of CPD’s Summer Institute in Public Diplomacy.