Mira Seth

Mira Seth is an Indian civil servant, diplomat, women's rights activist, and a former Chairman of UNICEF.

She served several terms as a member of the UNICEF Executive Board at the international level, and was Vice-Chairman from 1990 to 1991 (when Lisbet Palme was Chairman) and Chairman from 1991 to 1992.^[1]^[2] Seth formerly worked with the Department of Industrial Development. She is an expert on women and development issues.

Publications

Women and Development: The Indian Experience, SAGE Publications, 2001, ISBN 978-0761994879

References

Chairmen and Presidents of UNICEF

Chairmen	Ludwik Rajchman (1946–50) Adelaide Sinclair (1951–52) August R. Lindt (1953– 54) Balachandra Rajan (1955–56) Mahmood Shafqat (1957–58) John Ryan (1959) Felix Schnyder (1960) W. A. E. Green (1961) Miguel E. Bustamente (1962–63) Zina Harman (1964–66) Joseph W. Willard (1966–68) İhsan Doğramacı (1968–70) Nils Thedin (1970–72) Narciso G. Reyes (1972–74) Hans Conzett (1974–76) Antonio Ordoñez-Plaja (1976–77) Ferdinand Oyono (1977–78) Sadako Ogata (1978–79) Zaki Hasan (1979–80) Paal Bog (1980–81) Dragan Matelijak (1981–82) Hugo Scheltema (1982–83) Haydée Martínez de Osorio (1983–84) Richard C. Manning (1984–85) Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (1985–86) Maurizio Bucci (1986–87) A.P. Maruping (1987–88) Makoto Taniguchi (1988) Torild Skard (1988–89) Margarita Diéguez (1989–90) Lisbet Palme (1990–91) Mira Seth (1991–92) Frederick Ward (1992–93) Anne Makinda (1993–94)

Presidents	Anne Makinda (1994) Khalil Makkawi (1995) Ion Goriță (1996) Mercedes Pulido (1997) Michael Powles (1998) Ibrahim Gambari (1999) Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (2000) Movses Abelian (2001) Andrés Franco (2002) Jenö Staehelin (2003) Lebohang K. Moleko (2004) Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi (2005) Andrei Dapkiunas (2006) Javier Loayza Barea (2007) Anders Lidén (2008) Oumar Daou (2009) Abulkalam Abdul Momen (2010) Sanja Štiglic (2011) John W. Ashe (2012) Jarmo Viinanen (2013) Macharia Kamau (2014) Maliha Lodhi (2015) Sven Jürgenson (2016)

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