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Nada Al-Nashif took up her duties as Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO on 16 February 2015. She obtained a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard`s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Balliol College, Oxford University. Prior to joining UNESCO, Ms. Al-Nashif served (2007-2014) as Assistant Director-General/Regional Director of the International Labour Organization’s Regional Office for Arab States, based in Beirut, Lebanon. Previously she worked at UNDP, where she started her UN career in 1991, serving in Libya (1992-1995), Lebanon (2000-2004), Iraq (2003) and at Headquarters in New York (1995-2000, 2005-2006). She was seriously injured in the Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, in the afternoon of August 19, 2003, which killed at least 22 people, including the United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and wounded over 100. As a development economist and practitioner, Ms. Al-Nashif serves in an advisory capacity on several boards, notably the Boards of Trustees of Birzeit University and the Human Development NGO, Taawon. She frequently argues that social justice must be at the foundation of Arab economic reforms. == References: ==