CAROLINA AZEVEDO

Carolina brings 20 years of experience in strategic communications. Prior to joining Development Coordination Office (DCO) in March 2019 she coordinated UNDP´s communications in 25 country offices in Latin America and the Caribbean. She served as Spokeswoman and Chief of Strategic Communications and Public Information in the UN Mission in Colombia between 2016-2017. Carolina first joined the UN as the communications officer for UNODC Brazil and South Cone in 2006. She joined UNDP HQ in 2008 as communications specialist. Prior to the UN she was a senior foreign desk editor with Brazil’s TV Globo, also serving as news correspondent in Berlin, Germany. Carolina holds an MSc in Development Studies (LSE), an MBA from Brazil´s Fundação Getúlio Vargas, and a BA in Social Communications/ Journalism from Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro. She is Brazilian and is married with two children.