Professor Benn L. Bongang is a member of the Elite Trends Group Senior Executive Team (SET).

In this role, he supervises and consults on the global communications mission of the Group. He was associated with the ETG’s US/Africa partnership that brought African ministers to Washington D.C. to meet and discuss business and trade initiatives.

He brings several decades of both academic and professional media and communications expertise. He is committed to ETG’s vision of serving as a leader to improve business and education in Africa and in the Global South.

Skills and Expertise

Certified TV/Radio Producer/Director
Multimedia Instructor
Political and Media Strategist
Expertise in Leadership and Public Speaking
Proficient in French to English Translation/Interpretation

Biography

Benn L. Bongang is a professor of Journalism and Political Science and former chairman of the department of Political Science and Public Affairs at Savannah State University in Savannah, GA. He was a scholar of the Executive Leadership Institute (ELI) of the University System of Georgia, and a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at Boston University. Bongang worked at the United Nations Radio and at the U.N.  Department of Disarmament Affairs in New York. He has consulted for the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Intelligence & Research, for the Department of Homeland Security, and for Democracy International of Bethesda, Maryland.

Bongang graduated from the International Higher School of Journalism of the University of Yaounde. He was trained as one of the first 13 Producer/Directors of the Cameroon Radio and Television
Corporation ( CRTV). He earned a M.S. Degree in Journalism from Boston University, and a M.A. and a Ph.D in International Studies from the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

His television work includes, “Through Northern Eyes,” a documentary about Western media influences on African audiences which was acquired by German Television. He was the first executive – producer
of “Tam-Tam Weekend,” a TV Magazine show on the Cameroon Radio and Television Corporation (CRTV).

Bongang’s book, “The United States and the United Nations: Congressional Funding and United Nations Reform” was published in 2007. He regularly appears on WTOC Television’s “Tate Show” in
Savannah. He was a guest on People of Distinction, a CBS nationally syndicated radio show, and his views have been cited in other media outlets including, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Des
Moines Register, and Savannah Morning News.