Zdena Middernacht, PhD

Zdena also provides research support to other areas of work including strategy and organisational development.

She enjoys the holism of organisational development work. She enjoys analysing the interconnections between the work of organisations and their macro and micro environments and assisting clients to find the balance that helps them achieve their goals.

She has worked for development and human rights NGOs in South Africa and Belgium and in development consulting focused on fragile states in Africa and Asia. Some of the organisations she has worked for include Khulumani in South Africa, Save the Children and the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples’ Organisation (UNPO) in Belgium and Farsight (now Seefar) an international consultancy and social enterprise.

Zdena is a thematic expert in intersectionality, transnationalism and development. This was the focus of her PhD at the University of Kent. She holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy and a Bachelor’s degree in Organisational Psychology from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She is a Zimbabwean native and speaks Ndebele and Shona in addition to English, French and basic Dutch.