(Wits US Representative)
Ms Nooshin Erfani-Ghadimi is the Wits representative in the United States, providing strategic direction and operational advancement for fundraising and development activities in the United States, working collaboratively with Wits University and the Wits Fund.
Between 2012 and 2016, Nooshin ran the Wits Justice Project, a project which uses advocacy, education, law and journalism to help improve the South African criminal justice system. She is also a graduate of Wits, having completed her MA in Journalism and Media Studies, and passing with distinction.
Before that, Nooshin was the Humanitarian Diplomacy Senior Officer of the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies – the world’s largest humanitarian network. In this post, she was part of the strategic conceptualization and planning for the African Humanitarian Diplomacy Unit and helped establish and coordinate a continental team that included staff in communications, resource mobilization, planning and monitoring and evaluation, based in regional and country offices throughout Africa. Nooshin has also worked in the corporate and consultancy sectors, living and working in three continents, and brings these experiences to her work in advocating for the most vulnerable.
