Gabriela Ramos
Gabriela Ilian Ramos Patiño (born 8 April 1964) is a Mexican economist and international civil servant. Since 2020, she has served as UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences [1]. Prior to that, she was Special Councillor to the Secretary-General of the OECD from 2015 and OECD Chief of Staff and G20 Sherpa from 2009. She is known for championing inclusive growth[2][3] and gender[4], and helping craft and deliver international agreements at the OECD, G20 and UNESCO. Her work to promote gender equality earned her the 2017 and 2018 Forbes Excellence Award and she was also included in Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy in both 2018 and 2019.[5]
Early career
Gabriela Ramos holds an MA in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School[6] and is a Fulbright and Ford-MacArthur fellow.
After being promoted to Senior Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1989, she played an active role in the Coordinating Group that organized the first Ibero-American Summit in 1991. She also strengthened the Ministry’s network of contacts with academics, opinion leaders and universities.
She joined the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1995 as a Director, supporting the Ministry’s strategy to increase economic expertise and influence global economic debates. Ramos contributed to the integration of Mexico into the OECD, which it had joined in 1994. She represented Mexico in OECD flagship initiatives like the negotiation of the Anti-Bribery Convention.
As founding partner and CEO of Portico Consultancy Group (1998-1999) Ramos contributed to projects with the IFE (Institute of Federal Elections) to ensure Mexicans could vote abroad. She also coordinated an environmental campaign to prevent the building of a salt factory in a biosphere reserve (Laguna San Ignacio), a winter sanctuary of the eastern Pacific grey whale.
Her next major career move was to join the OECD Office for Mexico and Latin America in 1999 [7], working with stakeholders to advance benchmarking and evidence-based policymaking. She launched the OECD Forum in Mexico and supervised OECD reports on education and on health to advance institutional capacity building in the form of The Institute of Education Evaluation, the Seguro Popular (providing health coverage to half of the population) and the National Competition Framework.
OECD
Ramos was called to OECD headquarters in Paris in 2006, as Deputy Chief of Staff, and promoted to Chief of Staff in 2008. As Chief of Staff, she worked for the integration of new members, particularly from developing countries (9 since 2006, including Chile, Colombia and Costa Rica).[8]
She worked on different OECD initiatives, namely: OECD Inclusive Growth Initiative [1][9], OECD Global Competencies Framework, and New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) Initiative [2][10], among others.
As OECD G20 Sherpa, Ramos was known for “flying the flag for a focus on inequality”.[3][11] She helped leverage political support for reform of the international tax regime that culminated in 2021 with an agreement by 130 countries to impose a 15 percent global minimum [12] tax and other changes aimed to tackle tax havens. She was instrumental in aligning G20 members in agreement on a gender target to reduce the gap in labour force participation (25% by 2025), and a Youth Target. During the Japanese Presidency of the G20, she helped obtain the endorsement of the [13] OECD Principles of Artificial Intelligence and OECD work on the digital transformation.
At the request of the French Presidency of COP21, Ramos supervised the production of the “OECD Climate Finance Report” to assess the availability of finance under the 100 billion USD commitment by developed countries. The report stimulated debate on the need for objective data on the costs of tackling climate change.[14]
UNESCO
Gabriela Ramos left the OECD in 2020 to become Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO. In this role, she oversees the contributions of UNESCO to building inclusive and peaceful societies. Her agenda includes social inclusion and gender equality, advancing youth development through Youth as Researchers and other programmes; promotion of values through sports and the Fit for Life initiative; anti-racism and anti-discrimination; and the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) programme.
She piloted the negotiations that led to 193 UNESCO member countries signing the [15] Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in November 2021. [16][17][18]
Personal life
She was born in Michoacán, Mexico, one of three children of Carlos Ramos, engineer, poet, journalist, and Fidelia Patiño, international athlete. She is married to Ricardo Lopez, with whom she has two girls, Paula and Julia.
Awards and Honours
- Ordre du Mérite, France, 2013[19]
- Forbes Excellence Award 2017 and 2018
- Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy, 2018 and 2019.
- Fulbright and Ford-MacArthur fellow
- Member of the board of the Paris Peace Forum[20]
- Member of the Steering Group of the International Gender Champions Paris Hub
- Member of the Lancet Commission on Gender-Based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People, and Lancet Commission on COVID-19.[21]
References
- ↑ "Social and Human Sciences Sector - Who's Who". UNESCO. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ Lawrence, James (21 May 2021). "Unesco expert on how to tackle AI bias". Raconteur. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "Arab ministers and UNESCO officials discuss COVID response and recovery". Arab News. 22 December 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "Gender, Inclusivity and Technology with Speaker Gabriela Ramos (UNESCO)". The American University of Paris. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "The World's 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy". Apolitical. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "Harvard Club of France Harvard Women France: An evening with Gabriela Ramos, OECD Special Counsellor to the Secretary General, Chief of Staff". Harvard Club of France (in français). Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "Declaración del Secretario General de la OCDE - OECD". www.oecd.org. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ Network, The OECD Forum. "Gabriela Ramos". The OECD Forum Network. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "Inclusive Growth - Economic growth that is distributed fairly across society". www.oecd.org. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "New Approaches to Economic Challenges - New Approaches for Economic Challenges". www.oecd.org. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ Rimmer, Susan Harris. "Who's who in the G20 zoo? Focus on the sherpas". The Conversation. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ Partington, Richard (8 October 2021). "OECD deal imposes global minimum corporate tax of 15%". the Guardian. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "Artificial intelligence - OECD". www.oecd.org. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "Global climate action needs trusted finance data". Nature. 6 January 2021. pp. 7–7. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03646-x. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "UNESCO Draft Recommendation on Ethics of AI". MIAI. 24 September 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "193 countries adopt first-ever global agreement on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence". UN News. 25 November 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ Feng, Coco (25 November 2021). "Unesco unveils global guidelines for ethical use of AI". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ Ramos, Gabriela. "Artificial intelligence must not exacerbate inequality further". www.aljazeera.com (2 December 2021). Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "Décret du 14 novembre 2012 portant nomination". Légifrance. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "Peace Globe with OECD Chief of Staff, Gabriela Ramos | Paris Peace Forum 2019". Youtube. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ↑ "Gabriela Ramos". Lancet Commission on COVID-19. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
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