Maricel Aguilar is the National Programme Analyst of UN Women on women, peace and security, based in Manila. She currently leads the team implementing actions in support of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, particularly on women’s political participation and gendersensitive transitional justice, as well as women’s role on preventing violent extremism. Ms. Aguilar has almost two decades of gender and development work in the Philippines and overseas. She has worked with the national women’s machinery in the Philippines; volunteered for a rural NGO in Cameroon, West Africa; and as the lead technical officer implementing the Philippine National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security at the Office of Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Public Administration at the University of the Philippines.