Letty Chiwara is the UN Women Representative to Ethiopia, the Africa Union Commission and the UN Economic Commission for Africa, a post she took up in May 2013. Prior to this, she was the UNIFEM and the UN Women Chief of Africa, based in New York, where she worked for 12 years. Letty successfully led UN Women’s strategic partnerships with several organizations including the European Commission, the World Bank, the OECD DAG Gender Net, FEMNET, YWCA, the Africa Union Commission, the UNECA, and the Africa Development Bank.