Mohammad Naciri is the regional director of UN Women for Asia and the Pacific and representative in Thailand. From 2015 to 2018, he was the regional director of UN Women in the Arab states. Prior to joining UN Women, he was the deputy country director of UNDP in Yemen, where he supported the country in the formulation of its gender strategy and the gender-responsive budgeting process.
It is not too late to prioritize sex-disaggregated data. Two U.N. directors in Asia and the Pacific discuss how gender statistics can inform the response to COVID-19.
