Nafis Sadik, Pakistan

Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General with additional responsibilities as Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia

Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with the rank of Under-Secretary-General, from 1987 through 2000.

Secretary-General of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), 1990-1994.

Member of the Board of Governors of the Foundation for Human Development, and a member of the South Asian Commission on the Asian Challenge.

President of the Society for International Development (SID) for the period 1994-1997.

Numerous articles for leading publications in the family planning, health, and population and development fields, and edition of several books, among them: Population: The UNFPA Experience (New York University Press, 1984), Population Policies and Programmes: Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Experience, (New York University Press, 1991), and Making a Difference: Twenty-five Years of UNFPA Experience, (Banson, London, United Kingdom, 1994).

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