Rima Khalaf Hunaidi

Assistant Secretary General and Director

UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States

Day 3 Session 1

Dr. Rima Khalaf Hunaidi is Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States (RBAS) in the United Nations Development Programme. Under her leadership, the Regional Bureau issued the first Arab Human Development Report in July 2002, and is proceeding to issue subsequent versions of the report that analyze and denote many of the region’s developmental issues. Prior to her appointment at the UNDP Dr. Khalaf Hunaidi served as a Senator in the Upper House of the Jordanian Parliament.  Simultaneously, she  served as a member of the Economic Consultative Council, a public-private sector initiative established and directly supervised by His Majesty King Abdullah II Bin Al-Hussein to promote economic reform and modernization in Jordan.

A citizen of Jordan, Dr. Khalaf Hunaidi is a graduate of the American University of Beirut (Economics), and of Portland State University (MA in Economics and a Ph.D. in Systems Science).