Cecilia Ugaz Estrada

Cecilia Ugaz Estrada, UNIDO
Cecilia Ugaz Estrada
Director of Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Special Advisor, Office of the Managing Director
Directorate of Corporate Management and Operations

Cecilia Ugaz Estrada (Peru) is Director of Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Office and Special Advisor, Office of the Managing Director, Directorate of Corporate Management and Operations. She is former Director of the Policy Research and Statistics Department at UNIDO.

Cecilia Ugaz Estrada holds a PhD in economics from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (major: Econometrics of Investment) as well as graduate degrees in economic modelling from France and Peru. Prior to joining UNIDO, she served as the United Nations Resident Coordinator as well as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative for Paraguay.

She also served as the Deputy Resident Representative for UNDP in Argentina and as Deputy Director for the Human Development Report Office in UNDP headquarters in New York.

Cecilia Ugaz Estrada has also held various positions with the United Nations and in academia in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Finland as well as with the World Bank in Washington DC.