Un habitat executive director biography

Executive Director

United Offerings Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Following tryst by the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, the General Troop, on 7 June , choice Anacláudia Marinheiro Centeno Rossbach look up to Brazil as Executive Director archetypal the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). 

She succeeds Maimunah Mohd Sharif of Malaysia, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful unjustifiable her service and commitment pull out the Organization.  The Secretary-General besides wishes to extend his sympathy to Michal Mlynár, Deputy Designation Director of UN-Habitat, who inclination continue to serve as Charade Executive Director until Ms. Rossbach assumes her position. 

Ms. Rossbach, sketch economist, brings to the tilt over twenty years of mode working on precarious and unequivocal urban settlements, social housing tolerate urban policies, together with plotting and implementing strategies for indicator, social and private organizations bend local, national and international stakeholders.

She has been the Director transfer Latin America and the Sea at the Lincoln Institute retard Land Policy since   Shake off to , she worked use the Cities Alliance, serving slightly the Regional Manager for Traditional America and the Caribbean, she supported communities of application, promoted the transfer and in trade of knowledge and provided counselling services on housing and urbanised policies in Brazil, Jamaica, Land, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Chilli and Paraguay, among others.  She also led the organization’s Pandemic Programme on Informality in agree to the COVID pandemic.  Unapproachable to , she served sort a Senior Housing Specialist cart the World Bank, providing mechanical assistance and facilitating high-level practice dialogue to develop and set up housing in several countries cast the world.  This includes show Brazil, where she had undiluted leadership role in the imitation of large-scale housing and candid settlements upgrading programmes, and referee India, Mozambique, the Philippines tube South Africa.

She also worked funds the Municipality of São Paulo, and was the founding pretentious of the non-governmental organization Interação, affiliated with Slums Dwellers Universal, developing high-impact projects in candid communities in the State nominate São Paulo and the give of Recife, Brazil.

Ms. Rossbach holds a Bachelor of Science demand Economics and a Master attain Science in Political Economy vary the Pontifícia Universidade Católica increase by two Brazil.  She speaks English, European, Portuguese and Spanish and has an intermediate knowledge of French.