Awa Dabo

Director and Deputy Head, PBSO/DPPA

Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations

Awa Dabo is a human rights lawyer with extensive experience in crisis recovery, peace building, transitional justice, humanitarian affairs, and development. Awa has held several positions within the UN, including currently as Director and Deputy Head of the UN Peacebuilding Support Office. Awa was previously working at the UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa, as Country Director for UNDP in Tanzania, and as Regional Programme Manager with UNDP’s Crisis Bureau.
Awa holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham (1996) and a BA in Law, Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Keele (1994).