Ginette Azcona is a policy specialist with UN Women’s Research and Data Team. She joined UN Women in 2010 to work on its flagship report Progress of the World’s Women. Before that, she was part of the research and writing team for UNDP’s 2009 Human Development Report: Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and a master’s degree in public administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.