ASEM Forum on Human Rights of Older Persons: Present and Future

Tuesday 11 July-Wednesday 12 July 2023, Seoul, South Korea

DAY 1 | Tuesday 11 July

Keynote Speech: Sabing Henning (Chief, UNESCAP)​

Ms. Henning leads work on population and development, including research, capacity-building and intergovernmental support at UN-ESCAP. Substantive foci include ageing, migration, youth and overall population and development interactions.

From 2015 to 2018, she was Senior Population Affairs Officer, Office of the Director, Population Division, UN-DESA. From 2000 to 2015, she served in the Division's Population Estimates and Projections Section, the Population and Development Section, the Migration Section and the Population Policy Section. Ms. Henning has been involved in UN interagency work and coordination for over 17 years and has supported capacity-building of member States throughout Asia and the Pacific. She co-authored UN reports, such as the Asia-Pacific Report on Population Ageing 2022 and the Asia-Pacific Migration Report 2020, published in peer-reviewed journals, and serviced numerous intergovernmental meetings and high-level events at UN Headquarters and ESCAP. Currently, she leads the preparations for the Seventh Asian and Pacific Population Conference which will provide the Asia-Pacific input to the 30-year review of the Programme of Action of the ICPD.  

Ms. Henning has a Ph.D. in Geography with a doctoral-level certificate in Demography from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a graduate-level certificate in Strategic Management from Harvard University.