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María Noel Vaeza

Uruguayan expert in public policy and gender. PhD in Law and Social Sciences from the University of the Republic (Uruguay) and Master’s in Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University (USA). She led the Programme Division at UN Women headquarters in New York and worked with UNOPS and UNDP for over 20 years. She served as Regional Director of UN Women for Latin America and the Caribbean from 2019 to 2025, based in Panama.