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Mita Hosali
Works for the United Nations in New York. This is written in her personal capacity and does not reflect official UN positions on the topic.
Mita Hosali is Deputy Director at the United Nations News and Media Division. Under her leadership are the UN News Centre, UN Radio producing to audiences around the world in eleven languages, UN Television, UN webcasting services, the UN.org website and some of the UN’s main social media presences. Ms. Hosali formerly managed the UN News Centre, the online news portal that provides wire-style stories and multimedia features on the UN and its agencies around the world. Prior to that, she worked on strategic communications in a team under Secretaries-General Ban Ki-moon and Kofi Annan. She is UN veteran and has been a UN staffer on the communications and media front for several decades, including the tough years of Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda. She has a Masters’ degree in International Relations from Yale University and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the London School of Economics. A New Yorker by osmosis, she is a national of India and considers herself above all, a South Asian.