Khadija Patel

Khadija Patel pushes words on street corners. She is the Head of Programmes of The International Fund for Public Interest Media and is the former editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian in South Africa. She is also a co-founder of The Daily Vox and chairperson of the International Press Institute (IPI). As a journalist she has produced work for Sky News, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Quartz, City Press and the Daily Maverick, among others. She is also a research associate at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Witwatersrand). She is passionate about the enhancement and protection of global media as a public good.