Nicholas N. Gouede is an award-winning bilingual journalist and consultant in international development who lives in New York City. A native of Côte d’Ivoire, Nicholas has managed a wide range of development projects and multi-media and communications initiatives at the United Nations that have been featured in top international development conferences, including the African Capital Markets Forum and the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), among others.
Nicholas is a former Dag Hammarskjöld Scholar of the United Nations Correspondents’ Association, and a graduate of Columbia University’s School of Journalism and School of International and Public Affairs. He has over twenty years of professional experience in socio-economic growth and sustainable development, international economic cooperation, global health, and extensive expertise in international media and communications.
Nicholas’s work in the United Nations system includes the U.N. Department of Public Information (DPI), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Nicholas also worked for non-profit and research organizations such as the Population Council, a New York-based research organization in population, family planning and reproductive health and International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). He has travelled throughout the developing world, especially in Africa – advising governments, non-governmental organizations, public-private partnerships and the press on programmatic, communications and media outreach strategies. Nicholas speaks fluent English and French and has written extensively on international development.