Petra ten Hoope-Bender

Petra ten Hoope-Bender is the Technical Adviser for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at the UNFPA Office of Geneva. She is a Dutch midwife and has an International Organisations BA, former Secretary General of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), Executive Officer of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Director of the Dual Career and Staff Mobility programme at the United Nations. She coordinated the Lancet Series on Midwifery 2014 and was lead author of the international policy paper of this series. She co-authored the State of the World’s Midwifery reports 2011 and 2014, and is currently leading the SoWMy2021 development. She has practical, policy and programme experience in midwifery and sexual & reproductive health and rights, covering policy development, implementation and analysis, operational support to countries, organisational development, workforce assessment, advocacy and communications and capacity building..