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For other people named Elizabeth Reid, see Elizabeth Reid (disambiguation).

Elizabeth Anne ReidAO, FASSA, (born 3 July 1942) is an Australian development practitioner, feminist and academic with a distinguished career in and significant contribution to national and international public service.

She founded, established and worked with a number of pioneering and specialised United Nations institutions, government agencies and non-governmental organisations. Reid was appointed the world's first advisor on women's affairs to a head of government by the Australian LaborGovernment of Gough Whitlam in 1973.^[1][2]

Early life and education

Reid was born in Taree, New South Wales.

At 19 she began a Statistics Cadet and became a Program Officer for the Australian Bureau of Statistics and from 1964 to 1966 she was a computer programmer and training officer.^[3] She went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours a