The UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office, the UN center of expertise in pooled funding, is pleased to announce Ilaria Carnevali as its new Deputy Executive Coordinator.

New York, 12 April 2021.

Ilaria brings over 20 years of experience in the UN System in addition to an extensive prior private sector career, mostly in international banking with focus on emerging economies and loan syndications. Her programme management experience and work in key thematic areas (including governance, children’s rights, gender equality, and crisis prevention and recovery) will be a key asset for the management for the MPTF Office’s broad portfolio of inter-agency pooled funds. 

Ilaria also has a varied geographic and leadership experience. In her most recent appointment, she was serving as UNICEF Representative a.i. in Niger. Previously she had worked in Cabo Verde (UNDP, UNFPA and UNICEF Joint Office), Mozambique (as UNDP Deputy Country Director), Mauritania (UNDP Deputy Resident Representative) and in Ukraine (UNDP’s Head of Governance Programmes). She has also worked in UNIFEM Africa and UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery.

She holds an Advanced Degree (Laurea) in Business Administration from Bocconi University (Italy) and a Master of Arts in international Relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs from Syracuse University (USA), with concentration in International Economic Policy and Latin America. Ms. Carnevali is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, is married and has three children.