Ms. Hodan Addou Regional Director a.i UN Women East and Southern Africa

 

Hodan Addou is the acting Regional Director for UN Women East and Southern Africa.

She has been UN Women Country Representative to Tanzania since April 2018 and has over 30 years of international development experience in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, with a focus on Africa and the Caribbean States.

Hodan has an extensive experience in working with civil society, governments and regional organizations supporting their capacity building needs on policy formulation and program implementation. Hodan has also supported UN inter-agency coordination mechanisms both at headquarters, regional and country level to deliver more effectively on gender equality commitments.

Prior to her assignment in Tanzania, she was Country Representative to Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. She held other functions with UNIFEM/UN Women as policy advisor, program coordinator and manager, supporting several country offices and regional programs in East, Central, Southern and West Africa.

Before joining UN Women, Hodan worked with UNDP in New York, as Senior Gender & Crisis Prevention and Recovery Advisor. She has also worked with the World Bank in Washington D.C. on education sector reform policy issues in West Africa and in the Caribbean States.

She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University in New York on Economic and Political Development and a BA Degree in History from The American University in Washington, D.C.