Thelma Awori

Thelma Awori, "a Liberian/Ugandan, was Assistant Secretary General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa at UNDP, New York between 1997 and 1999. Prior to that, she was Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP, New York and UN Resident Coordinator & Resident Representative, UNDP in Zimbabwe. Ms Awori was Deputy Director, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and prior to that, Chief of its Africa Section. She was initially an adult educator at African universities for many years. Her BA (Hons. cum laude) is in Social Relations and Cultural Anthropology from Harvard University and MA Adult Education and Humanistic Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is completing her PhD at Columbia University."


 * Director, Sirleaf Market Women's Fund