Centre for Environmental Rights - Advancing Environmental Rights in South Africa

Sonia Chu is the Manager for Human Resources and Office Administration. Before joining CER, Sonia worked for the non-profit organisation South African Education Project (SAEP) as Manager for Human Resources, Fundraising and Sustainability where she was deeply involved in organisational and operational strategy, policy development and implementation, as well as fundraising, donor relationships and marketing. Prior to moving to South Africa, Sonia worked overseas with multinational companies such as B2B enabler Global Sources. Sonia hasa keen interest in developing talent and HR strategies, streamlining policies and procedures, and improving motivation, productivity, inclusivity and transformation in the workplace.

Environmental and climate change concerns are important to her personally, along with helping to create a better public awareness platform to educate ordinary people like herself on our individual roles in protecting our natural resources and environment.

Sonia has a Bachelor of Science Commerce degree major in Economics from Colegio de San Juan de Letran (Intramuros) in Manila. She also completed the HR Management course at Varsity College Cape Town. She’s an avid reader, a craft hobbyist, loves gardening, and follows her favourite volleyball teams on FIVB.

• Activist Support & Training
• Corporate Accountability
• Mining
• Pollution & Climate Change
• Transparency
• Water
• Wildlife