Michaëla Cancela Kieffer is editor of audio at Agence France-Presse (AFP), where her role is to oversee audio products and help shape AFP's audio strategy to better serve its news clients, as well as making sure the stories of AFP's 1,700 journalists across the world can be heard. She is also executive producer of Sur le Fil, the AFP daily podcast and three long format series since 2022: The Poisoning/Le Poison de Poutine, Crossroads France / Turbulences and Your Planet / Sur la Terre, produced in French and English.

Michaëla started her career as a freelance documentary producer. At AFP she worked as an international reporter and foreign correspondent for many years, in places such as Kabul, Bagdad, Bogota, Madrid or Washington DC.