Amie Figueiredo
Economic Affairs Officer UNECE, Switzerland

Biography
Amie Figueiredo is part of the Housing and Land Management Unit in the Forests, Land and Housing Division of UNECE and is the Secretary to the UNECE Working Party on Land Administration. She has previously worked at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on issues related to sustainable development, Rio+20 and its outcomes and the Post-2015 development agenda. She has also worked in the NGO sector where she secured funding for a variety of conservation projects globally. In addition she has worked in the private sector and possesses chemical regulatory management experience in environmental health and safety, hazard communication, and environmentally sound management. She has experience in coordinating multiple inter-governmental, multi-sectoral meetings; servicing of inter-agency and expert group meetings/seminars; providing technical assistance and capacity-building workshops; assisting in the implementation of multi-disciplinary projects and inter-divisional initiatives on development issues and policies for intergovernmental bodies regarding sustainable development.