Gabriele François Casini Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, SE

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Global

Led the development and execution of communications strategies and campaigns in major crises across the world, including the management of media productions, the implementation of communications and advocacy strategies, and impactful local, regional and global campaigns.Built and maintained relationships with representatives from the global media.

Sweden, Italy, Ethiopia And Ebola Emergency In DRC

Led the production of high quality multimedia material and campaigns for internal and external platforms including social media and national and international media outlets.Developed and maintained relations with agencies, media outlets, and journalists on the ground and abroad.Facilitated field visits for media.Wrote and pitched press releases, OpEds.

Northern Greece; Central Mediterranean Sea; Northern Iraq – Mosul Crisis Response

• Emergency Media Manager in the Humanitarian Surge Team; based in Stockholm, Sweden with frequent deployments to ongoing major crises around the world.
• Produced high quality multimedia material and campaigns for internal and external platforms including social media and national and international media outlets.
• Acted as main spokesperson on the ground for the organization.
• Developed and maintained relations with agencies, media outlets, and journalists on the ground.
• Facilitated field visits for media.
• Wrote and pitched press releases, OpEds, media advisories and other media material to international and national media markets.

Mediterranean Sea, Based Onboard MY Phoenix SAR Vessel

• Provided live updates, testimonies and high quality audiovisual material documenting all aspects of the intervention for both internal and public use, including external media agencies and social networks.
• Participated to the definition and implementation of MSF public communication and advocacy strategies on migration across the Mediterranean.
• Created and acted as one of the managers and content editors of the “@MSF_Sea” Twitter profile, the overall fastest growing MSF social media account.
• Responsible for data collection and context analysis to improve knowledge, support advocacy and define MSF’s future engagement in the Mediterranean migration crisis.
• Acted as focal point for media present on board MY Phoenix (2 journalists from different media were constantly embedded, changing at each disembarkation of migrants and refugees) and at disembarkation ports.
• Responsible for the respect of ethics and MSF guidelines in the interaction between embedded media and beneficiaries rescued at sea.

Brussels Area, Belgio

• This position entailed the management of MSF’s public communication and positioning on the response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. In practical terms, this meant:
• Definition of MSF public positioning on the Ebola outbreak through the design of strategies, messages and tools for communicating issues related to the emergency.
• Developing and implementing specific strategies for public communication to support advocacy efforts on the local, regional and international engagement in the response to the outbreak.
• Providing support and advice to the teams responding to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa at field and headquarters levels in their communications activities and strategies.
• Providing support to field operations through on-site training of field communications officers and key spokespeople.
• Producing articles, press releases and other communications materials for MSF media, external media and social media on key issues. This included participation to the writing of the report “Ebola: Pushed to the limit.

Guinea

Repubblica Democratica Del Congo

Sudan Del Sud

• Organization of regular meetings with donors and local authorities in Juba to keep relations and to identify potential funding opportunities.
• Preparation and finalization of quarterly, intermediate and yearly reports, as well as new project proposals on donor formats for the whole South Sudan mission.
• External reporting to the authorities of South Sudan.
• Provision of support to the humanitarian affairs department in defining the strategy for the Medical Care Under Fire campaign and related advocacy activities.
• Implementation of tools for testimony collection, context monitoring and analysis including actors and media mapping.
• Designed the South Sudan crisis update format (external communications material), which is now being used by a number of other MSF missions.

Brussels Area, Belgio

• Organization and management of the OCB Gathering, including organization and management of volunteer teams, preparation of documents (e.g. proofreading, layout, compilation, translations) and provision of.
• Management of membership, members’ databases and online voting platforms.
• Liaison with field members and representatives to ensure motivation and active participation through broadcasting and other systems according to specific needs and means.

Stoccolma, Svezia

Redaction of the Association Newsletter, based on opinion pieces, analyses, articles and interviews.Creation of informational material.Creation and management of content for the OCB associative website (insideOCB.com).Development and implementation of a live streaming system to broadcast relevant MSF events.Provision of audio/video equipment and software.

Brussels Area, Belgio

Appraisal of project proposals for funding submitted by ECHO implementing partners.Analysis and follow up of interim and final project reports; contract amendments.Correspondence with project partners and DG ECHO Technical Experts in the field on issues relating to project implementation.Follow up of the humanitarian situation in the countries covered by.

Firenze, Italia

Development of communication strategies for marketing purposesCreation and management of websites and social media contentRelations with media

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Noha - International Humanitarian Action, A

Activities and Societies: Field Experience in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon (Burj el-Barajneh, Shatila and Ein.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Cultural Anthropology

Specialization: Cultural, Social and Political Anthropology Modules included: Sociology, Psychology, Journalism, Modern and Contemporary.