UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appoints Indian-origin Anita Bhatia as UN-Women's Deputy executive

Indian-origin Anita Bhatia, a veteran in strategic partnerships, resource mobilisation and manment, has been appointed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as Deputy Executive Director in global body's ncy focussed on women empowerment and equality.

Bhatia holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Calcutta University, a Master of Arts in Political Science from Yale University and a Juris Doctor in Law from Georgetown University.

She has been appointed Deputy Executive Director of United Nations Entity for Equality and Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) for Resource Manment, Sustainability and Partnerships, a statement from UN Spokesperson's Office and UN Women said on May 30 .

She has h a distinguished career at World Bank Group, serving in various senior leership and manment positions, both at hequarters and in field.

Bhatia brings extensive experience in area of strategic partnerships, resource mobilisation and manment.

Veteran Indian diplomat and a equality champion Lakshmi Puri h previously served as Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women.

Bhatia served for several years as Director of Global Partnerships for International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group's private sector arm.

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She developed and expanded invative partnerships with public and private sector partners to support IFC strategy in key areas, including fragile and conflict-affected states, equality, financial inclusion, support to women-owned businesses and or priorities critical to attainment of Sustainable Development Goals.

In dition, Bhatia has served as Director of Development Partner Relations for World Bank, leing efforts to ensure strategic alignment between institutional priorities and resource mobilisation across group.

In various positions, she focused on enhancing sustainability, institutional effectiveness and impact through strategic partnerships.

As He of IFC's Latin America visory Operations, based in Lima and La Paz, she successfully grew Corporation's reach and impact in region.  

As Director of Partnerships and visory Operations, she oversaw financial manment, risk manment, portfolio manment, kwledge manment and learning for visory Services across globe.

Bhatia has led diverse teams, including as Global He of Kwledge Manment, He of Business Process Improvement and He of Change Manment. In dition to Latin America, she has worked in Africa, Europe, Central Asia and South and East Asia.

key appointment comes less than a week after Guterres appointed decorated Indian Army officer Lieutenant General Shailesh Tinaikar as his new Force Commander of UN Mission in South Sudan.

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