Dr Elizabeth Pimentel de Çetin trained as an economist, and her work centres on public policy in relation to gender and livelihoods, including access to finance; strategies to combat gender-based violence; and sexual and reproductive rights. Eli began her professional life, first as the representative to the United Nation’s Economic and Social Council on behalf of a pro-choice civil rights organisation based in Washington D.C., and at the Inter-American Parliamentary Group on Population and Development in New York, the political arm of International Planned Parenthood Federation for Latin America and the Caribbean. After a period working in investment banking, she returned to policy research and advocacy at the Commonwealth Foundation and the Commonwealth Secretariat, working alongside civil society and parliamentarians and presenting her research to the women’s machineries of the Commonwealth, and to the United Nation’s Committee on the Status of Women. These projects have dealt specifically with cross-sector cooperation, sensitive to the gender-based barriers that disempower women and girls.
Recently, Eli has signed on to the U.K. Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit database as a researcher on Covid-19 and its impact on legally protected classes, focusing on poverty and food insecurity. She is a member of the Policy Advisory Group for U.K. Women’s Budget Group. Eli holds advanced degrees in Philosophy, Public Policy and Administration, and Economics.
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