Amal Abou Rafeh serves as the Chief of the Programme on Ageing Section at the United Nations Department of Economic andSocial Affairs in New York. In this role, she oversees the follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing, including coordinating the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing. Amal served on the Secretariat of the General Assembly Open-ended Working Group on Ageing from 2018 to 2024 and is currently a member of the Steering Group for the Titchfield City Group on Ageing-related Statistics and Age-disaggregated Data. She facilitates the work of the United Nations Inter-Agency Group on Ageing as its permanent co-Chair and contributes to the"Duties to the Future" Inter-Agency Group, which examines the concepts of future generations and intergenerational equity within the United Nations system.
Since joining the United Nations in 2001, Amal has worked in social policy, sustainable development, and demography. Her notable roles include serving on the Secretariats of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002) and the High-level Meeting on Youth (2011). Beyond the United Nations, she was a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Healthy Ageing and Longevity from 2020 to 2021. Prior to her United Nations career, Amal lectured on the social and demographic data analysis at the American University of Beirut.
Amal's contributions have been recognized with the 2022 Rosalie Wolf Memorial Award from the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse. She holds a Master of Science in Population Studies from the American University of Beirut and has received the prestigious Penrose Award. Originally from Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Amal is a proud mother to a son.
