Gita Honwana Welch is a freelance consultant in the field of international development aid and a former employee of the United Nations.
On the basis of her varied national and international functions, she has been and is a participant and speaker at various conferences and working meetings.
[1][4] In East Timor, Honwana Welch was Minister of Justice in the first transitional government under UN administration from 2000 to 2001.
From 2011 to 2013, she was Director of the UNDP Regional Service Centre for West and Central Africa in Dakar, Senegal.
From January to April 2018, she served as acting Country Director of UNDP in Ghana.