Get in touch Areas of focus Strategic communicationCommunication for social changeIntercultural communicationOrganizational reputationDigital transformationArtificial intelligence Modeste Munimi, SVD
Founder & Director of Strategic Communications
Communication Strategist & Consultant
Dr. Modeste Munimi, SVD, is a Divine Word Missionary, journalist, communication strategist, researcher, and international communications leader with extensive experience in strategic, institutional, intercultural, and mission-driven communication.
For more than a decade, Modeste served in Rome as General Communications Coordinator of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), one of the world’s largest international missionary congregations. He later combined this responsibility with his role as Director of the Communications Department of the SVD Generalate, coordinating communication across a diverse, multicultural, and global missionary network.
His professional journey brings together journalism, strategic communication, organizational leadership, media, and social communication. His early experience in community radio in the Democratic Republic of Congo and at Vatican Radio in Rome laid the foundation for a career dedicated to using communication as a means of connecting people, cultures, institutions, and communities.
Modeste holds a PhD in Communication, Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Public Relations from the Complutense University of Madrid, as well as Masters in Communication for Social Change and Development from the Complutense University of Madrid and Professional Communication from the University of San Francisco (USA). His multidisciplinary background also includes studies in journalism, social communication, philosophy, and theology.
As a researcher and author, he has published on social media and evangelization, journalism and development, community radio in Africa, technological transformation, and communication in prophetic dialogue. His academic and professional interests focus particularly on strategic communication, communication for social change, intercultural communication, organizational reputation, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and the relationship between communication and mission.
His identity as a Divine Word Missionary gives his approach to communication a distinctive human and intercultural dimension. Having worked across Africa, Europe, and the United States and communicating in several languages, Modeste understands communication not simply as the transmission of information, but as a way of building trust, creating dialogue, strengthening relationships, and connecting strategy with purpose.
As Founder and Director of Strategic Communications at LuminoComms, Modeste brings together international experience, academic expertise, strategic vision, and a commitment to service. He works particularly with religious congregations, dioceses, nonprofits, NGOs, and mission-driven organizations, helping them develop communication strategies that are clear, credible, human, and capable of creating meaningful impact.
