Kathleen Ndongmo

Kathleen Ndongmo

Head, Digital

Kathleen is a seasoned communications and public affairs strategist with over 25 years of leadership experience across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.

About

With a strong background in journalism, corporate communications, and digital media management, she has led impactful campaigns and strategies in both corporate and development sectors. She currently leads the digital team at News Central TV, where she oversees end-to-end digital content strategy, multiplatform engagement, and revenue-focused digital transformation.

Kathleen brings a deep understanding of content creation, digital governance, public engagement, and media intelligence, with hands-on expertise in designing and implementing high-impact digital campaigns. Her extensive experience includes managing multi-stakeholder projects with government and multi-sector private organisations.

Her work spans corporate brand development, digital ecosystem building, SEO and analytics, and issue-based advocacy. She has consulted for private equity, fintech, and nonprofit organisations across Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, the US, and the UAE—delivering strategy, public relations, crisis communication, and team development services. Notably, she led content and digital news transformation at News Central TV from inception. A multilingual communicator fluent in English and French, Kathleen is also an internationally published researcher and policy contributor on communications, digital rights, democracy, and online freedom in Africa. She is a postgraduate alumnus of the Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom and a graduate alumnus of the University of Buea in Cameroon.