Georja Calvin-Smith

Georja Calvin-Smith (often misspelled Georgia Calvin-Smith) is a Paris-based international television news presenter and producer, writer, and journalism trainer, who also hosts and moderates various forums globally."Georja Calvin-Smith - Presenter," France 24, retrieved June 4, 2023"Featured Speaker: Georja Calvin-Smith, journalist, France 24," April 13, 2021, The World Bank, retrieved June 4, 2023"Session 2: Engager: Habiter le territoire de demai," December 5, 2015, Journée de l’Action: COP21 (the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference), Lima-Paris Action Agenda, Ecology Ministry, Government of France, retrieved June 5, 2023"Georja Calvin-Smith," World Press Freedom Day 2017, UNESCO, retrieved June 9, 2023"Speakers," A New World Coming, 'Digital Edition 28, September 30, 2021, Africa CEO Forum, retrieved June 4, 2023
She is most associated with France 24, France's international public television news broadcaster, where she has been an international news anchor, and is currently (2023) the producer and presenter of Eye on Africa, a daily series of Africa-focused news programs, and the network's weekly television news magazine Across Africa.
==Early life and education==
Originally from the former British colony of Trinidad, in the southern Carribean Sea, Calvin-Smith came to England when seven years old."'I was surprised how much I cared' ...granted full British citizenship...," April 19, 2010, updated January 12, 2013, Manchester Evening News, retrieved June 4, 2023
She studied law in the United Kingdom. "Let’s Talk Africa-Asia Partnerships," 2017, President Special Panel on "Accelerating Implementation of the Bank’s Ten-Years Strategy with the High 5s Agenda," African Development Bank Group (AfDB Group), retrieved June 4, 2023, and was subsequently invited to a role with the diplomatic service of Trinidad and Tobago, but turned to journalism, instead.
She became a naturalized British citizen in 2010.
==Career==
===Media career===
Calvin-Smith, since at least 2007Calvin-Smith, Georja: "Samba," May 31, 2007, Woman's Hour, BBC, retrieved June 4, 2023 has worked in the United States, Britain and France, on news, current affairs, and international documentaries, both in broadcasting and international magazine journalism.
She worked as a news reporter and presenter in Manchester, England, notably on TV station Channel M (circa 2010),"My bootcamp hell," April 19, 2010, updated January 12, 2013, Manchester Evening News, retrieved June 4, 2023 and produced stories, features and documentaries for the BBC, "Minuto a minuto: sitio al sospechoso de la matanza..." (translated, Spanish to English: "Minute by minute: siege of the suspect in the Toulouse massacre"), March 21, 2012, BBC News Mundo, retrieved June 4, 2023 ITV Network, and HBO in New York City.
In recent years, Calvin-Smith has worked in various reporting, producing and presenter roles for France 24, the French international television news network that broadcasts globally in French, English, and Arabic. After years of presenting news bulletins, she became the presenter for The Week in the Maghreb, which covered developments in north-central and northwest Africa. Eventually moving to cover the entire continent, she currently (2023) produces and presents the network's daily Eye on Africa bulletin, and anchors its weekly Across Africa TV-magazine show."France 24 Georja Calvin-Smith to Host the Invest in African Energy Forum Paris," May 29, 2023, African Energy Chamber (AEC), retrieved June 4, 2023
Calvin-Smith has reported from around the world, and interviewed several heads of state including the presidents of Nigeria, Mali, Ivory Coast, Namibia, Angola."Jonathan says PDP will bounce back," January 29, 2016, DailyTrust at Ventures Africa, retrieved June 5, 2023 and Zambia."President Lungu confident of being re-elected," (summary, in English, of interviews by France 24 and Radio France International), February 11, 2016, Zambia Daily Mail on Lusaka Voice, retrieved June 4, 2023 "President Edgar Lungu’s Interview with France 24’s Georja Calvin-Smith," (video), February 12, 2016, Lusaka Times, retrieved June 5, 2023
===Event leadership===
Calvin-Smith has hosted numerous high-level debates and dialogues at international summits, organization forums, and corporate events, particularly throughout Africa., including events of the United Nations "Ideas," 2019, Biennale of Luanda, Pan-African Forum for the Culture of Peace, UNESCO, retrieved June 4, 2023; similar references at and , the OECD,"Acknowledgments," Outcome document, High Level Dialogue with Africa: Road to TICAD7 in Yokohama and Africa’s Development Dynamics 2019 (May 21, 2019), October 1st, 2019, OECD, Paris, 
retrieved June 4, 2023; also cited in post-action "Acknowledgements""Agenda," June 10, 2022, "21st International Economic Forum on Africa: Africa in the emerging global economic order," OECD, Paris, retrieved June 4, 2023"Agenda," May 23, 2023, "Symposium: African Diaspora, Trade and Investment: What Economic and Social Impacts?," OECD, Paris, retrieved June 9, 2023 the World Bank,"Moderator: Georja Calvin-Smith," April 13, 2021, The State of the Africa Region: COVID-19 and the Future of Work in Africa, (virutal conference), World Bank, retrieved June 5, 2023 and several African-based international organizations.
As chair of the OECD's Africa Forum in Paris, Calvin-Smith oversaw a panel of ministers and presidents discussing Africa's economic challenges, and she has moderated other OECD panels.
In 2018, she conducted conversations with policy makers about Africa’s economy at the World Export Development Forum in Zambia. In 2019, at the initial Luanda Biennale and pan African Forum for the culture of Peace, she chaired a presidential panel.
She routinely leads events for the African Development Bank, and has moderated televised debates for that institution in Ahmedabad, India and Busan, South Korea."Speakers," "Finance in Common" Spring Meeting, May 11, 2021, African Development Bank, retrieved June 9, 2023
Calvin-Smith served as Master of Ceremonies at the Invest in African Energy Forum in Paris, in early June, 2023, for the African Energy Chamber (AEC) (Africa's energy industry trade group),"France 24 Georja Calvin-Smith to Host the Invest in African Energy Forum Paris," May 29, 2023, Gulf Oil and Gas, retrieved June 9, 2023 and also at the 2021 Global SME Finance Forum.speakers list, Global SME Finance Forum 2021, retrieved June 9, 2023 She also led a panel for the Africa CEO Forum. 
At the United Nations' COP21 climate conference in Paris, Calvin-Smith guided keynote sessions with California governor Jerry Brown, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and other leaders. She led discussions at the UN’s World Press Freedom Day event in Jakarta, Indonesia.
==Other roles and interests==
Calvin-Smith is a professor of capoeira, a martial art of Brazil.
==Honors==
Calvin-Smith has been featured in Le Monde's "Women in Africa" conference, along with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee and the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda.
The Rory Peck Awards, which recognize, annually, "the most outstanding work of freelance journalists and filmmakers" in international media, have appointed her as a Judge for the awards."Judges", 2020, Rory Peck Awards, retrieved June 5, 2023
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