CAROLINA AZEVEDO

Ms. Azevedo brings more than 20 years of experience in strategic and crisis communications, digital transformation, and multilateral engagement across the United Nations. She currently serves as Chief of Communications and Results Reporting in the UN Development Coordination Office (DCO), where she leads system-wide efforts to strengthen strategic communications, information integrity, digital solutions, and results reporting across 130+ UN Country Teams. As a member of DCO’s senior management team, she drives the UN 2.0 agenda, helping position the Resident Coordinator system as a more data-driven, behavioral science, digitally enabled, and impact-focused pillar of UN support to countries.

Before joining DCO, Ms. Azevedo coordinated communications for UNDP’s 25 country offices in Latin America and the Caribbean, shaping regional narratives on sustainable development and crisis response. From 2016 to 2017, she served as Spokeswoman and Chief of Strategic Communications and Public Information for the UN Mission in Colombia, supporting the historic peace agreement with the FARC-EP.

Ms. Azevedo first joined the UN in 2006 as Communications Officer for UNODC Brazil and the Southern Cone, later moving to UNDP Headquarters in New York as a Communications Specialist. Prior to the UN, she worked as a senior foreign desk editor and international correspondent for TV Globo, including an assignment in Berlin.

She holds a Mid-Career Master in Public Policy from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs focused on Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics, an MBA from Fundação Getulio Vargas, and a BA in Journalism from Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro. She is married and has two children.