Kim Hawkey

As VP Content and Editorial Operations, Kim is Afriwise’s content guru. She heads up editorial operations and is responsible for the platform’s content management, development and maintenance.

Kim manages a team of highly skilled editors and oversees the rigorous editing process that ensures all content on the platform is relevant, practical and of high quality. She is also responsible for the intensive maintenance process that ensures all content is up to date.

Kim is a seasoned journalist, an experienced editor and a communications expert. She is also a qualified attorney and conveyancer. Before joining Afriwise, Kim was firm-wide Head of Communications at Africa’s largest law firm.

She has extensive experience writing, editing and proofreading legal content, having previously been the editor of De Rebus, the official South African attorneys’ journal; having established and headed an innovative Courts and Law Hub to provide law-related content to one of the country’s largest media houses; and having been a senior legal reporter at South Africa’s premier weekly newspaper the Sunday Times.