Lucia Scuro Somma
Senior Gender Affairs Officer, Gender Affairs Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC)
Sociologist, graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of the Republic with a Master's degree in Sociology from the State University of Campinas, Brazil. She has worked with UNFPA, as Coordinator of the Gender Information System of the National Women's Institute in the Ministry of Social Development; as a professor and researcher in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences; and in the Master's program in Sociology and the Diploma in Gender and Public Policy at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She has also worked in non-governmental organizations and in multidisciplinary spaces involving collaboration between public and private entities.
Since 2011, she has been a Social Affairs Officer in the Division for Gender Affairs at ECLAC, leading work on women's economic autonomy. She coordinates technical support to countries on care and gender equality policies and, among other issues, monitors progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development regarding gender equality.