Fearless communicator
Intuitive change agent
Passionate about ideas & words
Judith Szabo specializes in stick-handling complex files and sensitive issues that affect people's lives and livelihoods in Canada and abroad.
Big Picture Thinking with Action-Oriented Drive
A former print and broadcast journalist, Judith leads, partners and collaborates to manage change, public awareness and education, stakeholder engagement, and address disaster risk reduction. Clients include the World Bank, the United Nations, the European Union, UNESCO, the Canadian government and many other governments world-wide.
Recent projects include:
- Canada - The Future of Work, Climate finance, Gender relations (Government of Canada)
- The UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial (UN, Government of Canada)
- Mauritius - National Multi-Hazard Alerting and Emergency Warning System (Government of Mauritius)
- Nepal - Accountability and transparency (Office of the Auditor General of Nepal)
- The Caribbean, Central & South America - natural disaster reduction, tsunami and emergency alerting/warning systems in 10 Caribbean countries and throughout the regions (UNDP, OECS, UNESCO-IOC, European Commission)
- Africa - the Horn of Africa Drought Crisis; the Sudan referendum, the conflict in Sudan, (UN-IOM, EU, Government of Canada)
- Pakistan - conflict-affected internally displaced persons, Parliamentary elections (UN-OCHA, EU)
- Afghanistan - economic development (Government of Afghanistan, World Bank)
- The Maldives - introduction of basic and old age pensions (Government of the Maldives, World Bank)
- Government of Canada - the Ukraine, cannabis legislation, the Middle East, Maghreb, security and intelligence, the Arctic Council, Health Canada change management, G8 & G20 Summits; several Summit of the Americas; avian flu pandemic
GLOBAL RECOGNITION . . .
- Speaker and presenter: Canadian Consumer Specialty Products Association, Treasury Board of Canada; Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Comprehensive Disaster Management Conference
- One of four people in Canada chosen by the United Nations to complete public information training for first line communications response in disasters and complex emergencies
- Former long-serving member of the Canadian Board of Directors for UN Women
Multiple awards of
excellence and commendations.
Education
- Masters in Public Administration (MPA)
- Bachelors in Journalism (BA)
- Certificate in Facilitating and Managing Complex Systems Change
- Certificate in Gender Equality Training
