Director for Gender Equality since September 2004, she was the pioneer in making gender equality a global priority at UNESCO in 2007. She is a senior international development executive with 30 years of public, private sector and academic experience specialized in driving innovation and change with impact. She is also the founder and CEO of an international consulting company in Canada.
She holds post-graduate degrees from Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School and graduate degrees from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium; Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and Political Science Department at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She received her B.A. at Boğaziçi University after completing high school at Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey.
Saniye Gülser Corat
UNESCO / Director, Division for Gender Equality, Office of the Director-General