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Social Development Specialist with more than 20 years of professional technical and management experience working across broad programmatic areas, including social policy, governance, health, HIV, education and poverty to improve inclusive access to quality social services and enabling environments. I am seeking a post to apply and build upon my extensive strategic and technical leadership. |
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Area of Expertise: |
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Social, Education, Gender, Youth, Child
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Professional Experience: |
I have more than 20 years of professional technical and management experience working across broad programmatic areas, including social policy, governance, health, HIV, education and poverty to improve inclusive access to quality social services and enabling environments. I also have extensive professional experience in working at various international organizations including the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank (including urban development), JICA, and UNICEF and as a social development specialist and a researcher.
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Ph.D., Communication: Social science and public health - joint programme with Johns Hopkins University Public Health School, August 1995 (M.A., 1991), The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States. Focus on impact monitoring and evaluation; data analysis, statistics, knowledge diffusion and behavioural change; public health, medical anthropology and demography.
Summer Fellowship in Economics (Economic Development, Advanced Microeconomics), School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), Washington, D.C, Summer 1989.
Special Postgraduate Programme (Micro- and Macro-Economics, Statistics), Columbia University, New York, NY, Spring 1989.
M.A., School of International Service, December 1986, The American University, Washington, D.C., Distinguished Alumna, 1999. Focus on social development, economic development, and social policies.
Other training and education
Washington Group on Disability and UNICEF, Workshop on Measurement of Child Disability, New York, September 2017
Oxford Policy Management and UNICEF (public finance for children): Web-based and face to face course in Florence, May - Sep 2016.
Harvard Business School and UNICEF: Executive Dynamic Leadership Certificate, November 2015
Health Policy and Financing: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and UNICEF, London, UK, September 2010
Oxford Management and UNICEF, (Social Budgeting), Bangkok, Thailand, October 2009
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, (Social Protection), Brighton, UK, July 2007
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
Experience in starting up a consulting firm in Washington DC.
Presentation at Academic Conferences and Publications.
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Available for: |
- Being headhunted – make me an offer
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Years of Experience:
More than 20 years |
Highest Qualification:
Doctorate |
Languages:
English, Spanish , Japanese |
Nationality:
Japan
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