SHERRILL WHITTINGTON
Emergency Programs, UNICEF


Sherrill Whittington is currently with Emergency Programs at UNICEF Headquarters, New York, where she returned after a three and  half year appointment to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. During this period she was as head of the Gender Affairs Unit in the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in East Timor (UNTAET), and then project manager on gender and peacekeeping.  Prior to that she served at UNICEF headquarters, focusing on gender, humanitarian crises and post-conflict situations.  She also worked with the Conference Secretariat for the Fourth World Conference on Women, the Commonwealth of Learning (Vancouver), and the Australian government in defense and security issues. Ms Whittington holds a master of letters in Asian History, and master of arts in International Relations.


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