Meet Kenyan behind UNFCCC Communications for the last 7 Years

A Kenyan man has been working with a team of dedicated personnel in the planning and development of media centers in the last 17 conferences, to ensure smooth operations by the press.

Tim Davis is a proud Kenyan, a former producer with Kenya Broadcasting Corporation(KBC).

The media center at COP 27 is a masterpiece of a mega newsroom with all calibres of Journalists, from camera people shooting, reporters scripting, and video editors packaging stories.

In 2022, more than 4000 were covering COP27 in Eqypt, a country where media is heavily controlled by the state.

In his early 70s, Tim has amassed enough wisdom, knowledge, and wealth in creating a conducive working environment for journalists having worked with KBC as a producer in the past.

He is a motorsport enthusiast and a stickler to time, Tim says he got into this work by the Grace.

His first Climate COP meeting was in 2006, in Nairobi, where he was tapped by the United Nations to help organise the media coverage for the event; an assignment that ended up opening many UN doors for him.

As the manager of UNFCCC, Tim says satisfaction is when media can file their story with ease and meet the strict story filing deadlines.

Wary of his age and the knocking frailty, Tim says he has 3 more Climate COPs to plan for before he retires. 

" My recipe for success has been, discipline, dedication, hard work, and commitment to duty," Tim said. This has seen him earn the trust of the United Nations over time.