Staff movement
ILO welcomes Kyana Bowen, National Project Coordinator, Trinidad and Tobago
Prior to joining the ILO, Kyana served as the Programme Officer – Humanitarian, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Resilience with the UN Women Multi Country Office – Caribbean for three years (2020 – 2022).
5 April 2023
© Kyana Bowen
Ms. Kyana Bowen joined the ILO Caribbean Office in April 2023 as National Project Coordinator for the SDG Fund Joint Programme, “Resilient Caribbean: Engaging and Training Youth, Strengthening Integrated Social Protection Sector Delivery".
Prior to joining the ILO, Kyana served as the Programme Officer – Humanitarian, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Resilience with the UN Women Multi Country Office – Caribbean for three years (2020 – 2022). In this role, Kyana was the UN Women Project Manager for the Enabling Gender-Responsive Disaster Recovery, Climate, and Environmental Resilience in the Caribbean (EnGenDER) Project, which was implemented across nine Caribbean countries.
Kyana’s work experience also includes humanitarian action, as before her tenure with UN Women, she held the position of Senior Programme and Policy Manager at the Department of Disaster Management and Emergencies within the Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 2016 to 2019 (three years). Kyana also worked with the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, from 2011 – 2016, with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (2014 – 2016) as Regional Planner, and the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (2011 – 2014) as Planning and Development Consultant. Both roles involved planning development for vulnerable/marginalized groups in disaster situations.
Ms. Bowen graduated from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus with a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning, as well as with an undergraduate degree in Social Work.
Prior to joining the ILO, Kyana served as the Programme Officer – Humanitarian, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Resilience with the UN Women Multi Country Office – Caribbean for three years (2020 – 2022). In this role, Kyana was the UN Women Project Manager for the Enabling Gender-Responsive Disaster Recovery, Climate, and Environmental Resilience in the Caribbean (EnGenDER) Project, which was implemented across nine Caribbean countries.
Kyana’s work experience also includes humanitarian action, as before her tenure with UN Women, she held the position of Senior Programme and Policy Manager at the Department of Disaster Management and Emergencies within the Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 2016 to 2019 (three years). Kyana also worked with the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, from 2011 – 2016, with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (2014 – 2016) as Regional Planner, and the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (2011 – 2014) as Planning and Development Consultant. Both roles involved planning development for vulnerable/marginalized groups in disaster situations.
Ms. Bowen graduated from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus with a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning, as well as with an undergraduate degree in Social Work.