Rebecca Reichmann Tavares

Rebecca Reichmann Tavares, from Southern California, USA, has worked in the field of development, race relations, and women’s rights. She was the UN representative for Brazil and Regional Programme Director of UN Women’s Brazil & Southern Cone Office. / President and CEO of the Brazil Foundation, Interim Coordinator of the Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) Initiative of the UN Secretary-General, representative of the UN Women’s Office in New Delhi, and Interim Representative of UN Women in Afghanistan.

Tavares has written many books, reports, and papers related to the sociology of race relations in Brazil, rights, and entitlements of women, and microfinance in Latin America.

From 2009 to 2013, she worked as the UN representative for Brazil and Regional Programme Director of UN Women’s Brazil & Southern Cone Office, and particularly engaged in issues related to race relations and woman's rights. From 2013 to 2017, she was head of the UN Women's New Delhi Office representing the four countries of India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka. She coauthored with Sonia Correa, a book, Population and Reproductive Rights.