Regional Director, ILO- Regional Office for Africa
Ms. Regina Amadi-Njoku, joined the ILO in 2000 as Regional Director of Field Programmes in Africa. Before joining the ILO she worked as Gender Advisor (1997-99) and then as Regional Director for UNIFEM based in Lagos (1999-2000). She also held the position of Vice-President of Mayatech Corporation in Maryland, USA (1993-96) and was Member of the Coca-Cola Advisory Board in Atlanta (1992-95).
Born in Lagos in 1945, Ms. Amadi-Njoku holds an MBA in International Development and Management from the Southern University, Washington, DC (United States), and an MA in Comparative Linguistics and African Civilizations and a Diploma in Education, both from the Lovanium University, Kinshasa (Zaire). After holding the post of Acting Press and Cultural Attaché in the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Kinshasa, she lectured in several universities in the United States. Thereafter she worked for the Federal Ministry of Social Development, Information and Culture of Nigeria as Chief of the Documentation and Cultural Statistics Division before holding posts at senior decision-making levels in international commercial enterprises in both Africa and the United States.
She has also been Project Coordinator for the World Bank in Washington, where she appraised development agencies’ projects in the areas of health, enterprise development and public sector management. She also conducted evaluation missions on various sectoral programmes in African countries for the World Bank, USAID and the African Development Foundation (ADF). Since 1997, Ms. Amadi-Njoku has specialized in Gender Development and was Gender Adviser then Regional Director of UNIFEM in Lagos, Nigeria. She crafted team-building and participatory management styles, and provided intellectual and conceptual leadership for programme design, implementation and monitoring in many areas, including human rights and the political empowerment of women.
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