Chandigarh, February 23,2019 : It is for the very first time that all heads of United Nations regional commissions are women.
Rola Dashti is the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) while Alicia Bárcena is Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and Olga Algayerova is Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE). Also the Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is another woman, Vera Songwe.