Ms. Roula Majdalani
Director, Sustainable Development Policies Division, ESCWA
Ms. Roula Majdalani is the Director of the Sustainable Development and Productivity Division (SDPD) in UN-ESCWA. Ms. Majdalani returned to SDPD in April 2010 first as Chief of the Productive Sectors Section and then as Director of SDPD in September 2010. In January 2008, she was appointed Chief of the Technical Cooperation Section (TCS) in the ESCWA Program Planning and Technical Cooperation Division (PPTCD). Ms. Majdalani also served in South Africa as a Political Observer in the UN Peace Building Mission. Prior to her career with the United Nations, she worked with Dar Al-Handasah Consultants (London), from 1985 to 1988 as an Urban Planner preparing surveys, sectoral studies and research activities for urban development projects in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and Morocco.