Scientific Café Episode 22, Adriana Quinones, Head, Human Rights & Development, UN Women

Adriana Quiñones is the Head of Human Rights and Development and Deputy Head of UN Women Geneva Office. She leads UN Women´s work at the Human Rights Council and all high-level actions in trade, labor, climate and other development topics. For the last 14 years at UNIFEM and UN Women, she has held posts as Country Representative, Policy Advisor in Asia and Latin America and Manager of the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women and Girls in New York. She has more than 20 years of experience leading efforts in the areas of Gender Equality, Elimination of Gender Based Violence, Access to Justice and Women´s Economic Empowerment.
She has supported the creation of youth development programs, access to trade and credit for the benefit of indigenous and afro-descendant women, as well as programs to combat stigma and discrimination. She supervised for the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations portfolios of more 70 million in 50 countries around the world. She advised the High Commissioner for Peace in Colombia on issues of human rights violations in the context of the internal armed conflict and to address the needs of the displaced populations.
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Adriana has a master's degree from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and a second master’s degree in economics and international Development from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).