Gry Tina Tinde

Gry Tina Marie Tinde (born 1964) is a former Special Adviser on gender issues to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (from 2004 to 2009), and currently a diversity advisor at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. (from 2009). At the UNHCR, she set up a fundraising program for refugees, Women Leading for Livelihoods. She has worked at the Council of the Baltic Sea States in Stockholm, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo, and with the UN and UNHCR in New York, Ex-Yugoslavia and Cambodia. She has a master's degree in anthropology and journalism from the University of Montana, a diploma from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium and a BA in political science, French and German from the University of Oslo.