Rima Salah

Rima Salah (born 1943) is a Jordanian high-ranking United Nations official, and a former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF.

She joined UNICEF in 1987 as a project officer for social mobilisation in Quetta, Pakistan. She became resident project officer in 1989, became the UNICEF Representative in Burkina Faso in 1992 and the UNICEF Representative in Vietnam in 1995. From 1999 to 2004 she was UNICEF's Regional Director for West and Central Africa, responsible for UNICEF's work in 23 African countries. Between 2004 and 2007 she was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, based in New York City. She was Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General at the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad from 2008.[1][2]

She is a member of the Board of Directors at Women for Women International and is a member of the Secretary-General High-Level Panel on Peace Operations.[3][4]

Early life and education

Sala hold an undergraduate degree in Sociology & Social Work from Beirut College for Women, a master's degree in Education & Sociology and Cultural Anthropology from the State University of New York at Fredonia and a doctorate in cultural anthropology from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Honours

References
  1. "Secretary-General Appoints Rima Salah of Jordan Deputy Special Representative for United Nations Mission In Central African Republic, Chad". United Nations.
  2. "Rima Salah". UNICEF.
  3. "Dr. Rima Salah". Women for Women International.
  4. "New appointments and measures advance women's participation in Secretary-General's Peace Operations Panel". UN Women.
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