Philippe Lazzarini

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Philippe Lazzarini (French: [filip lazaʁini], Italian: [fiˈlip laddzaˈriːni]; born 1964) is a Swiss humanitarian who served as Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 2020 to 2026. Born in Neuchâtel to Italian immigrants, Lazzarini holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne and a Bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Neuchâtel. Lazzarini started his international career in 1989 when he joined the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and served as delegate in multiple duty stations, including southern Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan, and the Gaza Strip. Lazzarini then led the ICRC operations in Bosnia, Angola, and Rwanda. He served as Deputy Head of the ICRC Communications Department. In September 1999, Lazzarini joined the Union Bancaire Privée bank in Geneva as head of the Marketing Department where he worked on corporate social responsibility and the bank's ethical investment agenda. In 2003, Lazzarini joined the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) as Area Coordinator in Mosul, Iraq. He then served as Head of Office for OCHA in Angola, Somalia, and the occupied Palestinian territory. In 2010, he became the Deputy Director of the Coordination and Response Division for OCHA in its headquarters in New York City. In 2013, he was appointed, under the leadership of Nicholas Kay, as the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Somalia.