Linda Vergnani

Linda Vergnani is an award-winning writer and highly skilled editor with book, magazine and newspaper experience. She was previously head of communications for a major non-profit agency, the Independent Development Trust (IDT), which distributed some A$1 billion in funding to over 8,800 projects in South Africa. She was in charge of all internal and external communication for the trust and was founding editor of its magazine Leading Edge.

Her features have been published in more than 25 newspapers and magazines on four continents. Publications that have carried her articles include The Australian, Reader's Digest, Australian Doctor, Africa Environment and Wildlife, The Bulletin, Times Higher Education Supplement and Qantas, The Australian Way. Her photographs have been published in two books and numerous magazines.


Linda is a former correspondent of the weekly newspaper The Chronicle of Higher Education, published in Washington DC. In 2001 she won the top prize in the South African Science and Technology Journalism Awards for a feature on a Namibian desert research station. She has a special interest in the environment and social justice issues.

For more information view her journalistic website http:/.members.ozemail.com.au/~linverg

Examples of publications edited and produced by Linda Vergnani for the IDT