Ms. Nadia Rasheed was appointed as the UNFPA Representative to China and Country Director for Mongolia in December 2024. Prior to this appointment, she served as the UNFPA Representative to Sierra Leone from May 2022. Before joining UNFPA, she was the UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in India from 2018 to 2022, and the UNDP Regional Team Leader for Health and Development in Asia and the Pacific from 2014 to 2018. She also served as the UNDP Deputy Country Director ad-interim for Sri Lanka in 2018.
Ms. Rasheed has a wealth of management and policy experience covering health, gender and development issues. From 2009 to 2014, she was the global Practice Manager for the HIV, Health and Development Practice at UNDP Headquarters in New York. She was also a Policy Specialist on HIV in the Bureau for Development Policy at UNDP Headquarters from 2005 to 2009. She previously worked with the UNDP Human Development Report Office, and with UNDP and other organizations on capacity development and gender equality issues.
She holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, and a master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University.
