Rebecca Reichmann Tavares, from Southern California, USA, has worked in the field of race relations and women’s rights. She is the representative of UN Women’s Office located in New Delhi, since July 2013, covering four countries of India, Bhutan, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. Earlier, from 2009 to 2013, she was the UN representative for Brazil and Regional Programme Director of UN Women’s Brazil & Southern Cone Office. Tavares has written many books, monographs and papers related to sociology of race relations in Brazil, rights and entitlements of women, and microfinance in Latin America.