About Us

Francis has been in the media business for nearly 40 years, starting with the BBC World Service as an analyst. He’s worked as a producer, presenter, manager and director. He has  managed radio stations and radio production studios in a number of places: South Africa in the run-up to the first all-race elections; Burundi during the conflict there; and he is currently Deputy Director of a large shortwave and FM radio network covering the Lake Chad Basin and beyond. He has expertise in behaviour change and in radio soap operas, and concentrates on developing media content which is designed to help build peace in conflict affected countries. He has also been international director of radio for the international conflict transformation non-profit SFCG.  He has given guest lectures at the Defence Academy and the Defence Scrience and Technology Laboratory in the United Kingdom; Amsterdam University; l’Ecole Nationale d’Administration (Paris), and Westminster School. Publications are listed here, an interview by YATV in Sri Lanka can be found here, and the transcript of another interview here.