Dr. Andrea M. Bertone has over 20 years of international development and research experience on gender integration in health, education, and civil society; human trafficking; women's and girls' empowerment, male engagement, and gender-based violence. She has managed international development projects and conducted research about women and gender. She has co-authored two girls’ mentoring guides and authored several peer-reviewed articles on human trafficking. She is the director of FHI 360’s Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Hub, where she provides strategic programmatic and technical leadership on gender across development sectors and geographic locations, and oversees the implementation of the FHI 360 Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Framework 2.0. She also serves as adjunct professor at The George Washington University where she has been teaching graduate courses on human trafficking, and gender and development since 2006. Andrea holds a Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park where she conducted her dissertation on human trafficking in Thailand.