UNIFEM Announces New Executive Director – Inés Alberdi of Spain
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: July 22, 2005
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Experienced Gender
Official from Spain Chosen to Head UNIFEM
7 April 2008 – The United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) announced today that Inés Alberdi of Spain has been appointed as the new
Executive Director of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
Ms. Alberdi, who succeeds Noeleen Heyzer, was selected by UNDP
Administrator Ad Melkert in consultation with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and
the UNIFEM
Consultative Committee, the agency said in a press release.
“The selection process was comprehensive and extensive, taking into account
both the challenges facing UNIFEM as such as the broader requirements of
strengthening gender-focused work throughout the UN system, something to which
the Secretary-General attaches great importance.”
Ms. Alberdi has had a long career dealing with issues related to gender,
development and politics. From 2003 to 2007 she was a deputy in the Madrid
Assembly, and before that she has worked for the European Union, the Spanish
Sociological Research Centre and the Inter-American Development Bank.
She has also worked as a professor of sociology at Complutense University of
Madrid, and has published several books on the social status of women.
UNIFEM is tasked with providing financial and technical assistance to
programmes and strategies that foster women’s empowerment and gender equality,
focusing particularly on reducing poverty, ending violence and reversing the
spread of HIV/AIDS.
In another appointment, Mr. Melkert announced that Mr. Ban has appointed
India’s Ajay Chhibber as Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator
of UNDP and Director of its regional bureau for Asia and the Pacific. He
replaces Hafiz Pasha.
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