Annie Mutamba

Annie Mutamba is a strategic communication consultant and trainer with almost 20 years’ experience advising governments, businesses and NGOs in Europe and Africa. She manages Meridia Partners, the first Brussels-based public affairs firm specializing in EU-Africa relations, and has worked on a variety of projects across different industries and institutions, including UN and EU programmes in trade, energy, health, education, peace and security.

She started her career in Washington D.C. at the Africa Policy Information Center, the oldest organisation in the US dedicated to African affairs before managing, for ten years, communication programs within the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic).

Since 2010 she has been a lecturer within the Executive Master in European Public Affairs and Communication at IHECS Brussels. She was appointed as visiting professor at the College of Europe in September 2020. Annie is also the cofounder of Africa Communications Week, an international platform bringing together communication experts worldwide looking to impact Africa’s transformation.