Georja Calvin-Smith

Georja Calvin-Smith (often misspelled Georgia Calvin-Smith) is a British Paris-based international television news presenter, producer, writer, and journalist who hosts and moderates various forums globally. Calvin-Smith is best known for her role at France 24 as a news anchor and presenter of the daily series Eye on Africa and the weekly television news magazine Across Africa. Calvin-Smith studied law in the United Kingdom, and was subsequently invited to join the diplomatic service of Trinidad and Tobago but turned to journalism instead. has worked as a journalist in the United States, Britain and France, on news, current affairs, and international documentaries. and produced stories, features and documentaries for the BBC, ITV Network, and HBO in New York City.

Calvin-Smith has reported from around the world, and interviewed many heads of state including the presidents of Nigeria, Mali, Ivory Coast, Namibia, Angola, Ghana and Zambia.

Event leadership

Calvin-Smith has hosted numerous high-level debates and dialogues at international summits, organisation forums, and corporate events, particularly throughout Africa, the OECD, the World Bank, and several African-based international organisations.

Calvin-Smith served as Master of Ceremonies at the Invest in African Energy Forum in Paris for the African Energy Chamber (AEC). and at the 2021 Global SME Finance Forum. She also led a panel for the Africa CEO Forum. \

The following June, at the 2025 Ibrahim Governance Weekend in Morocco, she was moderator of the MIF Leadership Ceremony with Morocco's president and current or former leaders, or key dignitaries, of the United Nations, European Union, Germany, and the World Health Organization.

Recognition

Calvin-Smith has been featured in Le Monde's "Women in Africa" conference, along with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee and the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda.

In 2025. in London, at the G-SEL Conference 2025, of the Global Sustainable Education & Leadership (G-SEL) Network (where she headed many events ), in a ceremony in the House of Lords, Calvin-Smith was awarded their 2025 Voice for Equity Award.

Calvin-Smith is recognized as an Honorary Patron of the Heritage and Cultural Society of America (HACSA)