Team

Lydia is Team Leader for Global Citizenship Education, within UNESCO’s Education Sector.  She has over 25 years experience promoting international understanding and cooperation in the areas of Gender Equality and, since 2013, Education. Currently coordinating the revision of UNESCO’s Recommendation concerning Education for international understanding, cooperation and peace and education relating to human rights and fundamental freedoms. Her other areas of work in this field include the prevention of violent extremism through education, cultural approaches to education. Bilingual, Ms Ruprecht is a Canadian national. She holds a D.E.A. in political sociology and a Maîtrise de sciences politiques from the Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I) and a Bsc in Political Science from the Université de Montréal (Canada).