Peter Tygesen

PARTNER & SENIOR CONSULTANT

Peter Tygesen is representing Networking Consultants in Southern Africa from his base in Zimbabwe. He has 25 years’ work experience in mainly vulnerable and post-recovery states, especially assessing needs and impact of local civil society and its interplay with governance structures.Media development and communication, rural development, food security and early recovery have been at the heart of a wide variety of assignments.

Nationality: Danish
Education: Journalist

Key qualifications

Extensive experience with development issues focusing on rural needs, civil society, fragile situations, economic growth and good governance. Specialist in media and communication; designing training programmes, regional cooperation strategies, communication strategy, media ethics and medias’ role in anti-corruption efforts.

Peter Tygesen has particularly strong insight in Southern and Central African societies, and has authored several books and films on developmental and historical issues in the region.

Peter Tygesen has special skills in team building and -leading, synthesing extensive research material and reporting in clear and comprehensive language, be it live or written.

Country experience

Africa: D.R. Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, R.o. Congo, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda.

Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Europe: Belgium, France, Slovakia

Languages

Language	Reading	Spoken	Written
Danish	5	5	5
English	5	5	5
French	4	3	1
German	3	2	1

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