Nishtha Satyam - Head of Office for Timor-Leste in UN Women

Nishtha was appointed as the Head of Office for Timor-Leste in UN
Women, the entity of the United Nations that is dedicated to
working towards Gender Equality and Woman's Empowerment in
September 2021. She was the former Deputy Country Representative
for UN Women in India and served as the Officer in Charge
starting January 2018. As the youngest woman to head a country
office for UN Women amongst 193 countries, Nishtha Satyam is an
unapologetic feminist, a trained economist with a keen interest
in applied macroeconomic and fiscal policy. In her long-standing
career in the United Nations, she has managed the UN Women Office
for a geo-politically diverse group of countries including India,
Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka. 


She has also served as the Private Sector Partnerships Specialist
with the Office of the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations
and UNDP. Prior to her career with the UN, Nishtha worked with
leading firms such as KPMG and American Express as an Economist.
As a futurist and feminist, she is a loud advocate of the urgency
to mainstream women across the marketplace, workplace and
community. Nishtha serves on several national and international
committees including the national committee to review CEDAW, the
advisory board on programming on Artificial Intelligence of
Global Policy Insights, the national committee to review Gender
Budgeting, amongst many others. As a policy expert to Goverments.


Her interest lies in the intersection of policy, politics and
people to foster lasting change for the most marginalized. She is
well known columnist with leading dailies in India and is
currently working on a book that captures the 25 landmark
judgements that changed the course of gender equality in India.
Nishtha holds a Master's Degree in International Business from
the University of Nottingham, UK and a Bachelors in Economics
from Delhi University.