Sana Bég is the executive director at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières Canada (MSF). Before joining the team in Canada, Bég served as the director of communications with MSF in South Asia for six years, where she played a significant role in building new systems and models to better enable our humanitarian work. Bég has also worked directly with medical project teams in South Sudan as communications manager, and as a communications advisor for Yemen, Syria and Iraq.
Prior to MSF, Bég’s career in journalism included positions such as senior producer for Al Jazeera America in New York and as reporter and producer with an affiliation of National Public Radio. She has taught journalism to students pursuing their master’s degree in Kashmir and is active in the Society of Professional Journalists.
Bég brings strong insight and grounded reflections in her public speaking, including her perspective on how the humanitarian sector must take critical steps to evolve and adapt. As a thought-leader in Canada, she is ready to share stories and insight about the multi-layered crises of today, including in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gaza, Haiti, Sudan and the situation of Rohingya people in Bangladesh and Myanmar, among others.
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