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Balliol Women's Network: - 'Women and Covid-19: International Development Perspectives’

Mon, 8 Mar, 2021 19:00 - 20:00
Time Zone: Europe/London
Local Time: Mon, 8 Mar, 2021 19:00 - 20:00

Balliol women are invited to join us for a panel discussion on the implications of Covid-19 for women in the developing world and humanitarian settings. Our alumnae panellists will look at the challenges faced by women in these settings, take stock of global humanitarian assistance during the pandemic and discuss the importance of women’s empowerment and participation in humanitarian crisis.

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Speakers 

Jane Edmondson OBE (1979, Biochemistry) 

Jane has been Director for East and Central Africa for the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office since September 2018. Previously, Jane worked in the Gambia, Uganda, Pakistan and Bangladesh and on human development in the UK’s Department For International Development (DFID)’s Policy Division. Before DFID she worked in health research in the UK and Africa. 

Mira Gratier (1997, Modern History) 

Mira has over 20 years’ experience in humanitarian response and recovery programmes and is currently the Country Director for Translators without Borders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Prior to that she worked with UNICEF as an emergency specialist supporting multi-sector response to IDPs and returnees in Ethiopia, and with the Department for International Development (DFID) as a Humanitarian Adviser in Syria, the Central African Republic, Zimbabwe and DRC. She led the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO) in Somalia and also advised their programmes in Chad. She has also worked as a team leader with Oxfam in DRC and Uganda. 

Kirsty McNeill (1997, PPE)

Kirsty has spent her career at the intersection between public opinion, public pressure and public policy. As Save the Children's Executive Director for Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns she leads teams to galvanise the public and influence policymakers on humanitarian action, global development and help for children here in the UK. Previously, she founded a consultancy advising some of the world’s leading social purpose organisations and spent three years as a Special Adviser in Number 10. She came to Downing Street having led the policy and influencing work of DATA, Bono and Bob Geldof’s advocacy organisation, in Britain, Germany, France, Italy and the EU institutions. Before joining DATA she was on the board of Make Poverty History and managed the Stop AIDS Campaign, successfully negotiating a commitment to universal access to AIDS treatment from the 2005 G8. Today she is on the boards of Larger Us, the Holocaust Educational Trust, the Coalition for Global Prosperity and the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

Andrea Woodhouse (1994, PPE)

Andrea Woodhouse is a senior social development specialist in the World Bank’s Europe and Central Asia region. Her work focuses on social inclusion, social cohesion, and forced displacement. She has worked on countries in transition for over 15 years, specializing in conflict, fragility, and violence, crisis recovery, social analysis, and community-driven development. She began her career in Indonesia during its transition, where she worked on corruption and community development, founded the World Bank’s Justice for the Poor program, and advised the Indonesian government on post-tsunami recovery in Aceh. She has worked on community-driven development and conflict programs in Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and South Sudan, represented the World Bank through ASEAN in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, and has analyzed poverty, forced displacement, and marginalization across the East Asia Pacific region and in Somalia. For several years, she led the World Bank’s analytical program in social development in Myanmar after the World Bank re-engaged in the country when it began to reform. She has held various roles within the World Bank, the United Nations, and in the social entrepreneurship space, including as an advisor to the UN Secretary General’s office on reform of the global peacebuilding architecture, and as co-founder of the online social movement Avaaz.

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