Yassine Fall

Yassine Fall is an economist from Senegal. She is UNIFEM Senior Economic Advisor on secondment to the UN Millennium Project as Senior Policy Advisor on Gender Equality. She has 18 years of field and policy experience. Prior to her posting in New York she was UNIFEM Regional Programme Director covering Francophone and Lusophone countries in West and Central Africa. She held the position of Executive Director of the Association of African Women for Research and Development for five years and played an important role in facilitating policy dialogue between African Governments and different women constituencies within Africa and during major UN international conferences. She is founding member of distinguished organizations including the Open Society Institute for West Africa, the Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa, the International Gender and Trade Network, the Network of African Women Economists. She has been a consultant to the Netherlands Cooperation agency, CIDA Canada, UNDP, UNIFEM, FAO, WFP, UNHCR UNESCO and ILO on issues such as gender and development, macroeconomic reforms, international trade, poverty reduction strategies, emergency relief operations, natural resources management and land tenure. She has also lived and worked for a number of years in East Africa. She is the author of several publications in French and English.