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Michael Dwyer

Regional Manager for South Asia

Michael Dwyer

Michael Dwyer joined Internews in 2008, following four years of university journalism training and humanitarian media projects in Afghanistan, and a media career spanning community broadcasting, radio and online work at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a stretch of freelancing in Southeast Asia.

As South Asia Regional Manager, Dwyer oversees Internews media development programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India, and develops new programs for the region.

Dwyer hails from Australia, where he started at Radio Adelaide (then 5UV), the educational community radio station at the University of Adelaide. Upon moving to Sydney, he worked at 2SER, in various volunteer and staff roles including producing/presenting the national weekly community radio media program. Dwyer was active in national community radio sector management and was part of an award-winning Open Mind documentary production team.

From 1997-2000, Dwyer worked at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, including producing and presenting programs at the Radio National network and working at ABC Online. His major projects included two series of educational documentaries for the Open Learning Unit (on citizenship and democracy, and on media and communication studies), "Future Exchange" - a major online/radio initiative, award-winning millennium programming and producing the "Religion Report."

Dwyer worked in Southeast Asia from 2000-2004, including two years freelancing for the ABC (Australia), CBC, BBC, CNN, RTE and other broadcasters.

In 2004, Dwyer took a three-month job training and mentoring students operating a new campus radio station at Herat University, and stayed in Afghanistan for four years. After Herat, he managed the national university journalism-training project at Sayara Media and Communication.

In 2006 Dwyer moved to UNOCHA IRIN as their country manager in Afghanistan, where he developed a humanitarian radio program service supported by a national network of correspondents.