Tina has over 20 years’ experience working in the field of development and health.
She started her career with the UN in Bangkok at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in 1994. Tina joined UNAIDS in Geneva in 1998, where she engaged in policy development and designed programmes to support HIV responses at the country level. She also served as Special Assistant to the Executive Director from 2003-2005. She then moved to Indonesia as Programme Coordination Adviser (2005-2010) where she provided technical support to the Ministry of Health, the National AIDS Commission and civil society organizations and enabled Indonesia to access financial resources for HIV from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
As the Senior Investment and Efficiency Adviser with UNAIDS Country Office in Myanmar (2010-2017), Tina together with key partners and the Ministry of Health and Sports, succeeded in developing a new generation National Strategic Plan for HIV with significant cost savings. She also coordinated proposal development and resource mobilization processes and engaged in integrating HIV in Myanmar's Universal Health Access Vision 2030. Tina has been Country Director of Indonesia since 2017. She spent 2020 in Geneva leading the development of the Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026, End Inequalities, End AIDS, which uses an inequalities lens to close the gaps preventing progress to end AIDS and sets out bold new targets and polices to be reached by 2025 to propel new energy and commitment to ending AIDS. The UNAIDS Secretariat and its 11 Cosponsors worked to develop the new strategy, which received inputs from more than 10,000 stakeholders from 160 countries.
Tina has a Master’s Degree in Management. A dual citizen of Thailand and USA, she has lived in the US, Thailand, India, Canada, Switzerland, Indonesia and Myanmar. She is multilingual with fluency in English, Thai, Indonesian and conversational skills in French and Burmese. Tina is married and has one daughter.