Sara Duerto Valero

Biography

Sara Duerto Valero is the Regional Advisor on Gender Statistics in UN Women’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, where she manages the Flagship Programme Initiative “Making Every Woman and Girl Count”, as well as the regional programme “Building Back Better” on gender statistics. Besides planning and implementing interventions to support the quality, availability and use of gender statistics across Asia and the Pacific, she leads the organization’s work on gender and environment statistics. Before joining the regional office, she worked as a statistics specialist in UN Women’s Headquarters. Previously, Sara was a statistician at the Statistics Division of the United Nations Secretariat (UNSD), the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP-SD), and UNESCO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. She holds a Master’s Degree in Development Studies from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and a graduate degree on Business from Universidad de Zaragoza. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, the arts and the ocean.