Meet Our Speaker!
Dr. Andrea Bertone
Dr. Bertone has over 20 years of international development and research experience on gender integration, gender equality in education, human trafficking, female empowerment, and gender-based violence. She has managed projects, and conducted research about women and gender. She has also co-authored two girls’ mentoring guides and authored
Dr. Bertone has over 20 years of international development and research experience on gender integration, gender equality in education, human trafficking, female empowerment, and gender-based violence. She has managed projects, and conducted research about women and gender. She has also co-authored two girls’ mentoring guides and authored several peer-reviewed articles on human trafficking.
Dr. Bertone is the Director of FHI 360’s Gender Department, where she provides strategic programmatic and technical leadership, gender technical assistance across development sectors and geographic locations, and is overseeing the implementation of FHI 360’s Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Framework 2.0. She also is and Adjunct Professor here at GW where she has been teaching graduate courses on human trafficking, and gender and development since 2006.