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Susan Joekes Senior Program Specialist IDRC - GGP 8 Ahmed Nessim Street, 8th Fl Giza Dokki, Cairo¸ EGYPT Work Phone (202) 333-67051/2/3/4 ext. 114

Susan Joekes is Senior Program Specialist for GGP at IDRC’s Regional Office for the Middle-East and North Africa (Cairo). She joined IDRC in 2001, as head of IDRC’s Gender Unit and served as Team Leader of the Trade, Employment and Competitiveness program from 2001 until 2006. Before joining IDRC, she was a Fellow and member of the globalisation team at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. She has also worked with UNCTAD, at the International Center for Research on Women in Washington D.C. and with the World Bank. Ms. Joekes has degrees from the University of Edinburgh and Oxford University. Her areas of specialisation are international trade and labour markets, with special reference to gender analysis. She is also experienced in research dissemination; she was the founding Editor of ‘Development Research Insights for Policy Makers’, a quarterly publication of the ID21 program funded by UK DFID and for several years, she served as Chief Adviser to BRIDGE (IDS Briefing Service on Development and Gender).

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