Speakers

Since 2017, Ms. Amel Haffouz has been serving as coordinator of intergovernmental activities, and Committee Secretary. She is also the Chief of Civil Society Outreach at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). She is responsible for coordinating and supporting the organization of intergovernmental meetings and for promoting outreach to representatives of member States, intergovernmental organizations and civil society.

From 2006 to 2017, Ms. Haffouz was leading the civil society liaison and outreach activities at UNCTAD. She contributed to developing and implementing pro-active policies and strategies for enhancing outreach and effective collaboration with civil society actors. She led a team in organizing, for the first time at UNCTAD, Hearings, the annual Public Symposium, ant the Civil Society Forum at UNCTAD Quadrennial Conferences with civil society, private sector, academia, parliamentarians, and representatives of member States.

From 1999 to 2006, Ms. Haffouz served as Economic Affairs Officer at UNCTAD and, with the Departmental Focal Point for Women, was working on integrating and promoting a gender and development perspective in the work of UNCTAD. In 1990, Ms. Haffouz has joined the United Nations in New York and she served at the United Nations Secretariat, Funds, and Programmes in New York, including the Department for Economic and Social Affairs, Department of Administration and Management, Department of Conference Services, UNICEF, UNFPA and the UNDP. She served as NGO Outreach Coordinator during the Fourth World Conference on Women and Development, Beijing 1995. She also worked with the secretariat of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 1994, and at the UNDP Regional Programme on Democracy, Governance and Participation (DGP). Ms. Haffouz has published a paper on “Institutional framework for civil society cooperation with UNCTAD, 2001 (Civil Society Dialogue), and presented a paper on “Gender, Trade and Development” at the UN LDC III Conference, Brussels, 2001. Ms. Haffouz earned a Postgraduate degree from Beijing Language and Culture University, China, and a master’s degree in administration and management from the University of Tunis.

She can be contacted at: amel.haffouz@un.org