Chantal Line Carpenter, Chief UNCTAD New York  (Canada)

Chantal Line Carpentier has served as Chief, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) New York office of the Secretary-General since 2014. Previously, she facilitated the engagement of NGOs, women’s groups, and businesses in the Sustainable Development Goals negotiations and the United Nations Rio+20 Conference in her role as Major Groups Coordinator for the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Prior to joining the United Nations, she served as Head of the Environment, Economy and Trade Division of the North American Free Trade Agreement Commission for Environmental Cooperation, as Policy Analyst for the Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture, and as Postdoctoral fellow for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in the Brazilian Amazon. In 2016 and in 2020, she was chosen as one of the Ideagen “100 Individuals and Organization Empowering Women and Girls.