1. Early life and education

2. Career

3. References

4. External links

Marta Ruedas is a United Nations bureaucrat who has worked in many countries around the world as a representative of the United Nations Development Programme, including Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Georgia, Nepal, Mongolia and Mexico, as well as at its headquarters in New York. The organization assists countries in reaching their targets in economic and social development. In 2015 she was the Country Director of the UNDP in Kabul, Afghanistan.^[1] In 2016 she was the representative for Sudan,^[2][3][4] and in 2018 she became the United Nations resident co-ordinator in Iraq.

Early life and education

Ruedas has a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University, a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University, and a diploma in Russian studies from the Pushkin Institute in Moscow.

Career

Ruedas served as UNDP Resident Coordinator/Resident Representative in Sao Tomé and Príncipe, beginning in 1991. She was then assigned to the same post in Bulgaria in 2001,^[5] during which she was awarded the country's state medal, the Stara Planina Order,^[6] by former Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov.^[7] While in Bulgaria she helped to organize a UN project which provided assistance to the Government of Bulgaria in identifying and destroying surpluses of weapons and ammunition.^[8]

In 2003, Ruendas became the Deputy Regional Director of the UN's Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States in New York. She left this post in 2007 when she was assigned as the UNDP's Deputy Special Coordinator/ Resident Coordinator and Resident Representative in Lebanon,^[9][10] where she was once again in charge of promoting economic and social development projects.^[11][12]

On 31 August 2014 Ruedas was appointed Country Director of the United Nations Development Programme in Kabul, Afghanistan. Since then she has coordinated UNDP projects there, including the construction of bridges, provision of water access to communities in remote areas of Afghanistan,^[13] and participation in the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme.

Ruendas also worked for the recovery of affected communities around the world during her post as the Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Director for UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, arranging public-private partnerships^[14] to accelerate recovery.

In 2016 she was the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan.^{[15][16][17][18]} In February that year she traveled to a refugee camp at Tawilla, where 86,000 refugees had gathered,^[19][20] and in 2017 she met with Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir^[21] and visited a camp in Darfur.^[22] In 2018 Ruedas was presented with Sudan's First-Class Order of the Two Niles by the country's President Omar al-Bashir.^[23]

In 2018 Ruedas was assigned as the UN's special representative in Iraq.^[24]

References

External links

• Ruendas at the UNDP website

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