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Ayaka Suzuki Bio
Ayaka Suzuki has been serving as Senior Political Affairs/Planning
Officer in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
since March 2005. Previously, she was Political Affairs Officer in the
Africa Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) at
United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was involved in the start-up
and daily management of the peacekeeping missions in Burundi (ONUB), the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) and Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL).
Prior to her position at DPKO, she served as Programme Director of Parliamentarians
for Global Action (PGA), an international organization of 1,200 democratically
elected legislators from over 100 countries. While at PGA, she directed and
implemented its Peace and Democracy and Empowerment of Women programmes.
Under the rubric of PGA's Peace and Democracy programme, she helped developed
a concept for Track 1½ diplomacy, focusing on the role of parliamentarians in
conflict management in countries such as Burundi. She also developed a project
on parliamentary oversight of the security sector with the Stockholm International
Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and worked on a number of capacity-building
activities aimed at strengthening the role of parliaments in emerging democracies in
Africa and Latin America with UNDP. She also facilitated a network of women parliamentarians
across the globe, enabling them to share their experience in pushing forward legislation that
improved the conditions of women in their countries, in accordance with the 1995 Beijing Platform
for Action. From 1999 to 2001, she served as a Board member of the Academic Council on the United
Nations System (ACUNS), which was headquartered at Yale University. She also worked at several policy
and advocacy organizations including International Peace Academy (IPA), Women's Environment and Development
Organization (WEDO) as well as the American Assembly. She obtained a Master's degree in International
Affairs from Columbia University, where she formulated her own specialization in "multi-dimensional
global security studies." She also has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science Magna cum
Laude from Barnard College, Columbia University.