Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen is a Danish lawyer and diplomat who, since 2022, is the Managing Director of ABA Global Action. From 2015 to 2021 she was CEO of the humanitarian organization

Plan International Plan International is a development and humanitarian organisation based in the United Kingdom that works in over 80 countries across Africa, the Americas, and Asia, focusing on children’s rights. In 2024, Plan International reached 43 million ...

Early life and education

Albrectsen holds a law degree from the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

Career

Albrectsen worked with the

United Nations Development Programme The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. The UNDP emphasizes on developing local capacity towar ...

(UNDP) from 1997 to 2004, in Indonesia and later as Director of the Administrator’s Office at UNDP Headquarters. She led country operations for

United Nations Population Fund The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is a United Nations System, UN agency aimed at improving reproductive health, reproductive and maternal health worldwide. Its work includes developing national healthcare strategies and protocols, incr ...

(UNFPA) in Turkey, Armenia,

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and Azerbaijan from 2004 until 2006. Albrectsen is the former UN Assistant Secretary General and Deputy Executive Director for Management at the

(UNFPA). From 2007 and 2009, Albrectsen led the Danish government’s humanitarian and civil society affairs work as the director of the relevant division in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Albrectsen published several articles in the past, as for example for ''Impakter'' in 2017.

Other activities

* Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2017)Board of Directors
Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data.

References

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