Gladys Mutangadura is a self-motivated expert working in the field of gender, social development and governance. Currently she is an Economic Affairs officer in the African Centre for Gender and Social Development of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. In her work she supports African Member countries with technical and policy advice on social development and governance issues to help them realise the MDGs and other international and regional development goals. Her areas of expertise include food security, gender equality, women’s empowerment, poverty, governance, security of land rights, inequities in health, social integration, human rights and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa and in charting ways to address impending challenges. She has written several articles on vulnerability to food insecurity and poverty, governance, land tenure insecurity, explaining variations in education enrolments, achieving the health MDGs, social exclusion, progress in achieving gender equality, and mitigating the socio-economic impacts of HIV/AIDS in Africa.

She successfully participated in the Uganda and Mozambique Country Review missions of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and made contributions to the research and preparation of the chapter on governance and socio-economic development.

Gladys has a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Virginia Polytechnic and State University, a Masters in Development Economics from Williams College Massachusetts, and a BSc in Agricultural Economics from University of Zimbabwe.

Gladys is interested in the Building Global Democracy programme because of the strong linkages between global democracy and the achievement of social development on the African continent.

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