Ms. Lidia Brito has been appointed the new UNESCO Regional Director for Southern Africa (ROSA) based in Harare Zimbabwe. She took up her position on 1st December 2022
Ms. Brito joins ROSA coming from UNESCO's Regional Bureau for Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean based in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Ms. Brito has vast experience IN science policy, development plans and monitoring of science policies and instruments, the forestry sector, traditional energy (biomass and coal), management in higher, technical and vocational education, ICTs for development, university professor, researcher, consultant and main manager at national, regional and international institutions, combining academic and practical aspects to promote sustainable development.
Between 2009 and 2014, she was UNESCO’s Director of Science Policy and Capacity-Building at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. She has worked extensively in the advancement of STI for sustainable development. She was the first Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Mozambique (2000-2005) and Vice-Chancellor of the Eduardo Mondlane University (1998 to 2000). From May 2014, she was the Director of the UNESCO Regional Office for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean and UNESCO Representative in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, based in Montevideo.