Nermin Ahmad - USA

Nermin Ahmad is a Bangladeshi/German diplobrat, who has lived and worked in some 27 countries. She was a project leader for environmental development and planning, hazardous material management and military base closure; sustainable development; community resiliency building and adaptation planning; disaster preparedness, response and rebuilding; and planning for organizational shifts in public and private sector management.

Ms. Ahmad has worked as a direct consultant to UNIDO, UNESCO, UN Habitat, UNDP, UNEP, the World Bank, the IFC; various national, state, county and local governments, and major corporations.  

She received her bachelor's from Harvard University, her master's from the London School of Economics, was a visiting student at l'Institut des Sciences Politiques, received a Diploma in Human Rights Studies from the Renee Cassin institute and in Stakeholder Engagement from Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg. 

As an IFBPW UN Rep, she is Treasurer of the Committee on Migration, and leads the Xenophobia Subcommittee.