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Nina Etyemezian

Associate Vice President of Human Rights, Education and Empowerment

Nina Etyemezian, Winrock’s associate vice president of Human Rights, Education and Empowerment, has more than 20 years of leadership experience in international development. During her career, she has worked for a wide array of nonprofit and for-profit organizations, and government and multi-lateral agencies. Nina has provided strategic planning, technical support and business growth consulting services to USAID implementing partners on a broad range of human capacity development programs. Previously, she was the director for program development and strategy with the international education division at RTI International, where she advised and supported efforts to strategically grow the division and expand its geographic footprint. Nina has lived in several countries in the Middle East and has worked across the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. She is a native Arabic speaker, is fluent in French and Armenian, and holds a master’s in International Education from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

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Winrock International has been selected by the U.S. Department of State to implement a $7.9 million project awarded by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons under the USDOS Program to End Modern Slavery. The project will focus on Bangladesh’s farming and fishing industries. Winrock Senior Director of Human Rights, Education and Empowerment […]

Nina Etyemezian Named Winrock’s Senior Director of Human Rights, Education & Empowerment

Jun 7 2022

Winrock International is pleased to announce that Nina Etyemezian has been named senior director of its Human Rights, Education & Empowerment (HREE) group. Over the past two decades, Nina has worked for a broad array of nonprofit and for-profit organizations, and government and multilateral agencies. Nina has provided strategic planning, technical support and business growth […]