| Aida Girma-Melaku | |
| Office: | UNICEF representative in Pakistan |
| Term Start: | April 2018 |
| Birth Place: | Ethiopia |
| Profession: | UNO, UNICEF Pakistan |
Aida Girma-Melaku, born in Ethiopia and a naturalized citizen of Italy, is a writer and the representative of UNICEF in Pakistan.[1]
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]