Impact of COVID-19 on Women and Girls in Asia and the Pacific

IMPRI Special Lecture on Impact of COVID-19 on Women and Girls in Asia and the Pacific by Mohammad Naciri

Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to an IMPRI Distinguished Lecture – #WebPolicyTalk on

Impact of COVID-19 on Women and Girls in Asia and the Pacific

Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: March 16, 2021; Tuesday
Time: 4:30 PM IST (GMT+5:30)/ 6:00 PM Bangkok Time
Platform: Zoom and Facebook Live

Speaker:

Mohammad Naciri, Regional Director, UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok

Mohammad NACIRI has been recently appointed as the  Regional Director of UN Women for Asia and the Pacific. From  2015 to 2018, he was the Regional Director of UN Women in the Arab States. From 2012 to 2015, Mohammad Naciri was the Deputy Regional Director for UN Women in the Arab  States. 

Mohammad has extensive experience in the region and in gender and development issues. Prior to joining UN Women,  Mohammad was the Deputy Country Director of UNDP in  Yemen, where he supported the country in the formulation of its Gender Strategy and the Gender Responsive Budgeting process. He has worked in Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and  Cambodia, dealing with issues from human trafficking to ethnic cleansing. 

A national of Morocco, Mohammad holds a master’s degree in Public Administration and International Development from the Harvard University, as well as a master’s degree in Social  Anthropology from the University of Oxford. He also has a  Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Arab  Academy for Science and Technology in Alexandria-Egypt. 

Chair:

Prof Govind Kelkar, Executive Director, GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation; Chairperson, GISC, IMPRI

Discussants:

Prof M. Niaz Asadullah, Professor, Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur

Nandita Baruah, Country Representative-India, The Asia Foundation, New Delhi

Irfa Puspitasari, Research Staff, Cakra Studi Global Strategis, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia

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