Nina Lamparski heads the award-winning digital research team in the Africa section for the international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). Since 2020, she has been supervising over a dozen local journalists who check fake news on the internet on location across the continent.
Having grown up in Luxembourg, Nina was drawn to travelling at an early age. Her multi-faceted career has taken her to Sydney, Phnom Penh, London, Brussels and Paris. In 2015, she joined AFP in Vienna from the BBC as a foreign correspondent, where she reported on the migration crisis and the rise of populism in Europe, among other things.
In her spare time, she teaches journalism at universities in Paris, runs media workshops in schools, plays the ukulele and is a passionate Liverpool FC supporter.