Vanessa Kacherginsky
Israel
East Asian Studies
Vanessa Kacherginsky is Deputy Director General of the Jerusalem Press Club. In her role, she has coordinated a number of delegations to Israel of Asian business print and TV journalists and editors.
Vanessa studied her M.A. in East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, having completed her bachelor’s degree in International Relations and East Asian Studies.
Prior to this, Vanessa guided tours of the Knesset to groups of diplomats, tourists and soldiers. During her time in the IDF, Vanessa was promoted to sergeant and managed the text and audio division in the intelligence unit. She continued her work with the army in France as project manager of UPI SAREL organization (which markets voluntary programs for the IDF) before spending a year teaching Hebrew at an ulpan in Paris.
Vanessa is fluent in Hebrew, English and French and after completing a summer study program at Jilin University in China, she is now proficient in Mandarin Chinese at HSK level 4.
