Sixty-seventh meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ana Güezmes is a physician with a specialization in public health and development cooperation, and has over 35 years of experience in Latin America and the Caribbean leading efforts to advance substantive gender equality and a care-oriented society. Since 2020, she has served as Director of the Division for Gender Affairs at ECLAC, which acts as the secretariat of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean and coordinates the Gender Equality Observatory.

She has been UN Women Representative in Mexico and Colombia, and Director for Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic; Regional Advisor at UNFPA; and has worked with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) at the regional level, and in Peru with Spanish Cooperation, the Consortium for Economic and Social Research (CIES), and the Peruvian Women’s Center Flora Tristán. In academia, she stands out as co-founder of the Gender Studies Program at the National University of San Marcos in Peru in 2000 and as a visiting professor in several countries.