BUILDING CAPACITIES FOR PEACEKEEPING AND WOMEN´S DIMENSIONS IN PEACE PROCESSES
Joint Conference  Chile - European Union - Denmark
Santiago, 4 - 5  November 2002
CURRICULUM VITAE

SHERRILL WHITTINGTON
Project Manager Gender and Peacekeeping, Department  Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), Head Quarters New York.

Formerly Head of Gender Unit in the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET).

Prior to that, she was with UNICEF Headquarters, and the Conference Secretariat for the Fourth World Conference on Women.

Ms Whittington also has a background with the Australian Defence Department and Parliament, specialist in South and South East Asian defence.
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