Aida Girma-Melaku

Girma-Melaku was born in Ethiopia and became a citizen of Italy. Girma-Melaku was educated at Southern New Hampshire University, where she obtained an M.Sc. in Development Economics after a B.Sc. in International Development. She also took a course at Harvard. Girma-Melaku was a UNICEF representative for fourteen years in Uganda, South Africa and Malawi. She remained associated with UNICEF as Deputy Representative of UNICEF in Mozambique and Somalia.^[2]

On 12 April 2018 she presented her credentials to Khawaja Muhammad Asif, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, as the new UNICEF representative.^[3]

Girma-Melaku speaks on different welfare projects and writes articles to highlight women's problems.^[4][5][6]