Angel joined the United Nations system as Communications Associate for the Malaysia Country Team, where she served the United Nations Development Programme, and also UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO, OCHA and UNHDC. She formulated and implemented media strategies on international development issues, primarily the UNDP Country Office’s core programmes in democratic governance, energy and environment, HIV/AIDS, poverty reduction and South-South cooperation. In addition, the strategies also covered those of crisis prevention and recovery, gender issues, integrity and transparency, resource mobilization, and the Millennium Development Goals.
While serving the UNDP, Angel worked on several development projects for Afghanistan, which led to a move to Kabul to work for UNDP’s project partner, the Government of Afghanistan’s investment arm. She used media and communications to project the country as an investment destination and to increase Foreign Direct Investment to speed the economic reconstruction of a post-conflict country. In recognition of her work experiences, Angel was offered of a full, two-year scholarship from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
At the School, Angel sat on the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of Public Affairs, received the School’s Leadership Award, and worked for the School and the Asia Competitiveness Institute. She also represented the School to the Global Public Policy Network held in Sciences Po, Paris and was later appointed a University Ambassador. Her research thesis, authored exclusively for UNDP China’s South-South Cooperation desk, offered situational analysis and policy recommendations on the Chinese economic intervention in the sub-Saharan states.
Angel holds a Master in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and a Bachelor of Communication from Monash University, Australia, with specializations in Journalism and Psychology. She also had short stints at Dow Jones Newswires and Asian Wall Street Journal in Singapore, as well as the School of Social Science and Public Policy of King’s College London in the United Kingdom.
Her work on international economic development continues.
