Irineo Evaldo Koch
Communication,
Public Relation & Religious Liberties


Pr. Irineo E. Koch Was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is a graduate of Unasp - SP where he read Theology in 1986 and Journalism in 1998, Business management, Interpersonal relations and other many courses in Brazil and United States. He is married and father of 02 children.

He worked as Church Pastor for almost 5 years in Sao Paulo and Santa Catarina. He also received a call to start a first FM Adventist Station in Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil. Since then, he has been working in the Communication Department until this day.

 Pioneer and creator of successful programs on TV and Radio in Brazil, director of many radios in Brazil that include the most popular Adventist radio “Espirito Santo”, the Adventist Radio "Novo Tempo" which obtained the first place in general audience among the Brazilian radios!  There, he discovered talents like Pr. Ivan Saraiva, who is today the “It is writing” presenter of South America.

Presently he is the Communication & the Public and Religious Liberty Director in West Central Africa Division, a position he has been holding since 2012.

In WAD, he starts a studio of productions for TV Hope Channel Africa that produces per year about 200 new programs on health, family, testimonies, bible lessons, reports, etc.  He is working hard to install new radios and TV producers in West Africa, especially in the Windows 10-40.