Dr. Rima Salah
UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Peace Operations, USA
Dr. Rima Salah was appointed by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as a Member of his High Level Panel on Peace Operations, which has taken her around the world. She recently published a book Pathways to Peace - the Transformative Power of Women and Children, in collaboration with Dr. James Leckman and Dr. Catherine Panter Brick, from Yale University. In addition, she served as Deputy Executive Director for UNICEF in New York in 2007 and 2011. She has served a total of 21 years with UNICEF, during which time she was Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Representative in Vietnam and Representative in Burkina Faso.