Associate Director – JHB.
Wendy Trott.
Wendy Trott Associate Director
Wendy is an Associate Director at ALT Advisory, focusing on equality and inclusion, information integrity, media viability, and strategic development.
As a development economist, Wendy is passionate about achieving authentic, sustainable social justice by empowering the people most affected by inequality and injustice, and finding effective ways to evaluate what really works in the social impact field.
Wendy holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Georgia, where she also minored in French, and an M.A. in International Development from Sciences Po Paris, where she majored in African Affairs and Emerging Economies.
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— Notable projects.
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Undertaking an assessment of CSOs partnered with UNICEF to support a gender transformational approach to ending child marriage.
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Assisting various civil society organisations, including the Health Justice Initiative (HJI) and the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship, with strategic development and fundraising.
- Supporting the South African National Editors’ Forum with a series of written and oral submissions to the Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry initiated by South Africa’s Competition Commission.
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Developing a Diaspora Engagement Framework for the Economic, Social & Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) of the African Union.
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Preparing a gender analysis and action plan to mainstream gender in the Joint Labour Migration Programme for Africa.
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Assisting the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator with information governance and regulatory compliance in terms of South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
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Wendy is an Associate Director at ALT Advisory, focusing on equality and inclusion, information integrity, media viability, and strategic development.
As a development economist, Wendy is passionate about achieving authentic, sustainable social justice by empowering the people most affected by inequality and injustice, and finding effective ways to evaluate what really works in the social impact field.
Wendy holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Georgia, where she also minored in French, and an M.A. in International Development from Sciences Po Paris, where she majored in African Affairs and Emerging Economies. This helped her develop a deep understanding of the economics of development in the BRICS countries, and an appreciation for the role of social justice and human rights in economic and democratic development.
Previously, Wendy worked in Economic Research with JPAL-Africa, a branch of the global research centre working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence, based out of the University of Cape Town. She also worked with Omidyar Network and subsequently Luminate, a philanthropic organisation that supports innovative initiatives to improve government accountability and civic empowerment across Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa in areas such as independent media and digital rights.
Wendy has also worked with the Center for International Development at the Kennedy School of Governance at Harvard University, and with the Brenthurst Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Wendy is working to advance her understanding on the role of strategic litigation to advance social justice, particularly as it relates to womxn, youth and other marginalised communities, and how technology can be a tool for stronger, more inclusive democratic societies in Africa.
