Ms. Barbara Adams
Senior Policy Advisor at the Global Policy Forum
Barbara Adams is Chair of the Board of Global Policy Forum, and serves as a Senior Policy Advisor. Barbara Adams was trained as an economist in the UK, worked as Executive Director of the Manitoba Council for International Affairs in Canada and has undertaken development programming in Uruguay. She served as Deputy Coordinator of the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) and head of its UN headquarters office through the period of the UN global conferences of the 1990s. From 2003–2008 she worked for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Barbara Adams has authored and co-authored many articles, reports and books on the UN and multilateral issues, including Accounting for Africa at the United Nations: A Guide for Non-Governmental Organizations; Putting Gender on the Agenda: A Guide to Participating in UN World Conferences; Climate Justice in a Changing World, co-authored with Gretchen Luchsinger, Reclaiming Multilateralism for People, Rights and Sustainable Development, Whose Development, Whose UN? and Fit for Whose Purpose?, co-authored with Jens Martens.