Zohreh Tabatabai

Zohreh Tabatabai is an Iranian diplomat and international business coordinator. She served in the United Nations as chief of the "Focal Point for women for the United Nations system". She also served in the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva as a Communications Adviser.

Biography Zohreh Tabatabai, an Iranian by birth, worked initially as a diplomat for ten years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran. She then joined the United Nations (UN) in 1980 and held several positions over 20 years, including chief of the Public Services Section and three years as the Focal Point for women for the UN system. She said, "The Focal Point should travel to other duty stations and peacekeeping missions to ensure that the message of the Secretary-General's commitment to gender equality is emphasized".

In 2002 she moved to Geneva to take up the post of Communications Adviser in the International Labour Organization (ILO). In 2010 she left ILO and formed Quince Partners, an enterprise dealing with communications and public relations.