Janine Meijer is a Belgian freelance journalist specializing in sustainability, social inequality and diversity.
Her reporting has taken her across Belgium, Europe and the African continent with work published in leading Dutch-language media including De Standaard, De Morgen, De Groene Amsterdammer and investigative journalism platform Apache.
Her work focuses on the human impact of political, economic and environmental change. Through in-depth reporting and on-the-ground interviews she aims to show how global developments are experienced by the people most directly affected by them.
Janine holds a master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and a master’s degree in African Studies from Leiden University in the Netherlands. In 2000, she graduated from the postgraduate journalism programme at Erasmus University Rotterdam.