Isabella Schmidt

Biography

Isabella Schmidt, is currently the UN Women regional gender statistics specialist for the East and Southern Africa Region and has more than 30 years’ experience in international development and statistics. Currently she is mainly responsible to coordinate and provide technical support to UN Women’s gender data and statistics flagship project, Women Count. Prior to joining the UNWomen ESARO office, Dr. Schmidt was the Chief Director, Social Statistics, at Statistics South Africa where she was responsible for overseeing the production and promoting the use of Social Statistics in the country. Her portfolio included gender, marginalized groups, education, governance, public safety and justice, housing & service delivery, tourism, transport statistics.