Annette Tjon Sie Fat
Annette Tjon Sie Fat (Suriname) is the former Executive Director of Conservation International (CI) Suriname. Through her work with CI, as well as in her role as Programme Manager for UNIFEM’s Women and Sustainable Human Development programme, Annette has spent the last 20 years in villages in the interior of Suriname, helping to develop and advocate for sustainable development plans and programmes. She began her career as a teacher, focusing on English language and literature, and soon became a translator and interpreter in Suriname, working in government services for over fifteen years and starting her own translation company. However, her passion and long-time NGO work on behalf of women and children’s rights eventually led her down a different path—to pursue her Master’s degree in Development, Participation and Social Change at the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Sussex in Great Britain. In January 2013, she retired as Executive Director of CI Suriname and now works as an independent consultant and current president of the Projekta Foundation for gender equality, using her wealth of experience to help design and facilitate dialogue processes and programmes, while continuing to advocate for gender equality.
Julian Walker
Julian Walker (United Kingdom) is a Lecturer at the Development Planning Unit of University College London, where he directs the Gender Policy and Planning Programme, as well as the MSc in Social Development Practice. He works extensively on gender equality and social diversity both in academic research and teaching and through practice based work. This has included support to gender mainstreaming in organizations, and bringing a gender perspective to programmatic interventions in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He has worked with a range of development organizations, including the United Nations Secretariat (UNOV and UNESCAP), the International Labour Office, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the European Commission, and the Swiss Bilateral Development Agency (SDC-DEZA). His current research interests relate to how gender, and social diversity, affect the aspirations of different groups of women and men, their treatment by social and economic policy, and their ability to achieve well-being. This has included recent research into how to define and measure time-poverty as a way of measuring some of the gendered dimensions of ill-being.
