Sarah Knibbs

Deputy Regional Director, a.i., UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Sarah Knibbs

Deputy Regional Director, a.i., UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Biography

Sarah Knibbs has been working in the Asia Pacific region for the past 25 years with a range of organizations, including UN Women, UNFPA, DFID China, Save the Children Fund, VSO and the Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance (KHANA). Her work has focused on gender, violence against women, HIV, youth issues, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Sarah joined UN Women in 2014 and was initially based at Cambodia Country Office before moving to the UN Women Regional Office for Asia Pacific in June 2020 where she is currently the Deputy Regional Director ai. Sarah is from the UK and has studied History at Oxford for her first degree, later taking an MSc in Development Management specialising in Population and Reproductive Health at the University of Wales Swansea.

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