Paula Kantor
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Paula L. Kantor (May 7, 1969 - May 13, 2015) was a gender and economic development specialist who was killed in the 2015 Park Palace guesthouse attack.[1][2]
Kantor had been working for the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, as a Senior Scientist in Development and Gender at the time of the attack.[3] She was leading a project to improve the livelihoods of people living in wheat-growing areas of Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Pakistan.[4] Prior to that position she was the senior gender scientist at WorldFish from 2012 through 2015.[4] As part of that work, she trained and assisted NGOs in delivering gender programming to women fish retailers in Egypt.[4] Kantor was the director of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) from 2008 through 2010.[5]