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Elena Ruiz Abril
UN Women
Regional Policy Advisor for Women’s Economic Empowerment for West and Central Africa
Bio
Elena Ruiz Abril is UN Women’s Regional Policy Advisor for Women’s Economic Empowerment for West and Central Africa. She has more than 20 years of experience working to support women’s economic rights, advising Governments, multilaterals and the private sector. Prior to joining UN Women, she worked for the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and several UN agencies in Africa, Latin America, Europe and Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa. In her current role, Elena works to scale up solutions to support women’s economic empowerment in West and Central Africa, with a focus on rural women and climate resilient agricultural value chains, women in the transition to the green economy, and gender in economic policy reform. She is co-author or the report launched by UN Women and the African Development Bank in 2021, Green Jobs for Women in Africa.
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