Rokhaya Diawara is an Education Program Specialist and Global Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) lead at UNESCO Headquarter in Paris. Before taking up this role, she managed basic education including ECCE, Technical and vocational training and literacy portfolio at the UNESCO Abuja office, covering eight countries out of the 15 for west Africa after working at the UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa based in Dakar, Senegal, covering all sub-Saharan African countries, where she led the African Working Group on ECCE of the Association for Development of Education (ADEA) during 7 years on behalf of UNESCO as a chair of the entity. Rokhaya holds a master's in Education, Cultural Resources and Social Intervention, from the University Paris 13.