Tacko Ndiaye is a Programme Specialist in UNIFEM Africa Section in New York. She has extensive experience working with governments, national women's machineries, bilateral and multilateral organisations, women's networks, civil society, and parliamentarians to advance gender mainstreaming and women's rights in policies, programmes, budgets, institutions and statistics. Between 2004 and 2007, Tacko worked as an Economic Affairs Officer with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa where her responsibilities included the carrying out of socioeconomic studies on African development through the application of quantitative and qualitative methods such as the African Gender and Development Index. In that respect, she was involved in policy advocacy, capacity building and research on regional developmental challenges with a focus on gender issues. Before joining the UN, Tacko worked with various networks specialized in gender and macroeconomics. Between 2001 and 2003, she was a member of the Steering Committee of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). She also worked extensively with the Women in Development Network in Europe (WIDE), which specializes in policy advocacy in trade and development cooperation from a gender perspective.