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'''Mari Simonen''' (born September 23, 1951) currently serves as Deputy Executive Director, External Relations, United Nations Affairs and Management of UNFPA, the [[United Nations Population Fund]] and focuses on United Nations reforms in particular. Her appointment was approved by [[UN Secretary-General]] [[Kofi Annan]] in March 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/press/en/2006/sga988.doc.htm|title=Mari Simonen Named Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA|date=March 10, 2006}}</ref><br />
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Simonen, of Finland, was most recently the Director of UNFPA's Technical Support Division, a post she had held since November 1999. In that capacity, she oversaw a staff of international technical experts in public health; reproductive health; HIV/AIDS; population studies; gender and human rights; and other specialized areas of work in support of population and development issues worldwide.<br />
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Prior to that position, Simonen was the Chief of the Office of the Executive Director at UNFPA, a strategic position from which she helped the Executive Director carry out her functions as the secretary-general of the historic 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development.<br />
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Before joining the United Nations in 1980, Simonen worked at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. She holds a doctorate degree from that university in Education. She has a bachelor's degree in sociology from [[Stanford University]] and a master's degree in sociology of education from the [[Stanford Graduate School of Education]].<br />
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In November 2011, Simonen was appointed Chair of VSO, an international development charity working through volunteers in over 35 countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/vso-appoints-philip-goodwin-chief-executive/management/article/1326760|title=VSO appoints Philip Goodwin as chief executive|date= December 16, 2014|first= Andy |last=Ricketts}}</ref><br />
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