Blerta Aliko joined UNDP Algeria in the capacity of Resident Representative on 14 October 2019. She has a professional background on development and humanitarian issues including on gender equality and women’s empowerment.  She started her UN career in 1996 in UNDP Albania as a national staff and later joined UNICEF and subsequently UN Women working on child rights and women’s rights agenda. During the years, Blerta has been supporting humanitarian programming and post crisis recovery planning and coordination in Liberia, Kenya, Chad, Myanmar, Haiti, Yemen. In April 2016 she was posted in Egypt in the capacity of UN Women Deputy Regional Director for Arab States and UN Women Representative for Egypt. Blerta holds a masters’ degree in Business Administration from the IFM University of Geneva, Switzerland and graduated from the Faculty of Economy, University of Tirana in Albania. Blerta is married and mother of two children.