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United Nations
30/12/2005
Secretary-General
SG/A/968
BIO/3728
DEV/2560
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Department of Public Information o News and Media Division o New York
Biographical Note
SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS AMAT AL ALEEM ALI ALSOSWA OF YEMEN AS DIRECTOR
OF UN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME'S BUREAU FOR ARAB STATES
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Amat Al
Aleem Ali Alsoswa of Yemen as Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and
Director of its Regional Bureau for Arab States.
Ms. Alsoswa is currently Minister for Human Rights in Yemen, and has
served previously as Yemen's ambassador to Sweden, Denmark and the
Netherlands. From 1997 to 1999, she served as Under-Secretary at
Yemen's Ministry of Information. She will lead 500 UNDP staff
covering the 17 country offices in the Arab region, with the
eighteenth office located in the Palestinian territories.
Ms. Alsoswa succeeds Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, a former Deputy Prime
Minister of Jordan, who, as director of the UNDP Arab States Bureau
since 2000 was responsible for the groundbreaking Arab Human
Development Reports. The fourth report in the originally planned
four-part series will be published in the spring of 2006.
The intersection of democracy and women's empowerment in the
information age has been a focus of Ms. Alsoswa's career. A long-time
proponent of broadening political participation in Yemen, she led the
Yemeni Women's' Union before joining the Ministry of Information in
1997 to 1999. In the international arena, she has worked as a
consultant to UNDP and its sister agencies, and has published and
lectured widely. Ms. Alsoswa holds a Bachelor of Arts in mass
communications from Cairo University and a Master of Arts in
international communications from American University in the United
States.
In line with the UNDP mandate, the work of the Arab States Bureau has
ranged from capacity-building to policy formulation within a region
that has a wide diversity of needs due to its varied economic bases.
In addition, the Regional Bureau has taken into consideration the
importance of public awareness of development issues in the region.
In recent years, the UNDP's National Human Development Reports have
become a prominent resource within many Arab countries -- and in 2002,
the first regional Arab Human Development Report was released
providing a comparative analysis of the area and highlighting its
critical development issues.
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