 In 2003, Ruedas became the Deputy Regional Director of the UN's Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States in New York.She left this post in 2007 when she was assigned as the UN's Deputy Special Coordinator/ Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Lebanon, where she was once again in charge of promoting economic and social development projects.Ruedas also worked for the recovery of crisis-affected communities around the world during her post (2011-2014) as Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Director for UNDP's Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, arranging public-private partnerships to accelerate recovery.