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Biography
Dr. Grace Fombad Was born in Cameroon to a family of six. She pursued her university studies in Bucharest, Romania, where she graduated with a Bachelor degree in general Medicine. She further obtains a master degree in public health from Charles Darwin University in Australia. While working In Ethiopia, she also continued her studies to obtain another master degree in Business Administration in Healthcare Management.
Career wise, she started working as a medical doctor in her home country, Cameroon where she put in 13 years before joining the UN in 2002. Since then she has worked in different Peace Keeping missions ranging from Timor Leste, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Nepal and finally transferred to the UN Economic Commission for Africa in 2007 where she has been working till date.
She is married and a mother of five children.