About Patricia Garcia
Over 20 years experience working in the world’s conflicts including Afghanistan, Sudan, South Sudan, Bosnia and Burma I have managed humanitarian aid and development programmes to assist refugees and IDPS. I have been engaged as Programme Manager and Director with international NGOs and UN agencies ( Oxfam, Peace Winds Japan, German Agro Action, Norwegian Church Aid UNOPS, UNHCR) and with Austcare and Act for Peace in Australia. I completed a short term consultancy with Concordis International as their Sudan Country Director.
I continue to be actively engaged in humanitarian advocacy and research and training in peacebuilding and human rights with a focus on women peace and security, conflict prevention and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda.
I continue to be actively engaged in humanitarian advocacy and research and training in peacebuilding and human rights with a focus on women peace and security, conflict prevention and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda.
As former UNAA Program Manager UN Sustainable Development Goals, I established the national SDGs program. Currently I am Coordinator of the IEP Ambassador Program. I am also Honorary Associate at the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney.My languages in addition to English are Spanish and French. In 2011 I received an Australian Federal Government award for services to the overseas humanitarian sector.
In 2014 I was selected as one of the subjects for the UNSW Australian Human Rights Centre Faculty of Law photographic exhibition project entitled “Positively Remarkable People Ending Violence Against Women” (www.positivelyremarkable.wordpress.com).
I was awarded the 2016 State Finalist Australian of the Year and have recently joined the group of inspirational speakers at Celebrity Speakers.
I was awarded the 2016 State Finalist Australian of the Year and have recently joined the group of inspirational speakers at Celebrity Speakers.
http://www.celebrityspeakers.com.au/patricia-garcia/
I received the Queen’s Birthday Honours Award of Officer of the General Division of the Order of Australia ( AO) on 13th June 2016. In 2017 I was awarded a Rotary Peace Fellowship and completed my professorial certificate at the Rotary Peace Centre at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok Thailand.
