Anne Marie Goetz Chief Advisor, Governance, Peace and Security, UNIFEM

Anne Marie Goetz is Chief Advisor, Governance, Peace and Security at UNIFEM.

Prior to joining UNIFEM in 2005, she was a Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.  She is a political scientist who has specialized in the study of gender and governance in development.  She has researched the conditions under which marginalized social groups, including women can become more effective in advancing social change agendas once they occupy public office. Professor Goetz has also worked on pro-poor and gender-sensitive approaches to public sector reforms, anti-corruption initiatives, and decentralization, and has also studied means of supporting political liberalization and state-building in fragile states and post-conflict situations.

Professor Goetz is the author of five books on the subjects of gender and politics in developing countries, and on accountability reforms - the latest book, co-authored with Rob Jenkins, is Reinventing Accountability:  Making Democracy Work for Human Development (Palgrave, 2005). Professor Goetz has engaged in a wide range of advisory work related to gender, democratization, and governance, including direct advisory work for developing country governments, for multilateral economic institutions and bilateral donors, and for NGOs.