Chiara Dezzi Bardeschi is the UNESCO Desk in Kyiv’s Liaison Officer, since October 2022. She has over 22 years of professional experience with the Organization, mainly working in fragile states and emergency contexts. She has previously served as Executive Officer, Coordination and Partnership Officer at the Regional Office for Central Africa region (Yaoundé) (2018-2019, 2021-2022), Programme Coordinator of the Culture component of UNESCO’s flagship initiative ‘Li Beirut’ (Beirut, Lebanon 2020/21) and Senior Advisor and programme coordinator in several UNESCO Field Offices, among which Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Mozambique, Namibia, among others. For Iraq, she served as Culture Programme Specialist-Secretariat of the International Coordination Committee IRAQ (2004-2005). In 2006, she established the UNESCO Antenna Office in Juba, South Sudan, where she then served as a Liaison Officer. For UNESCO she has contributed to strategic papers in the field of heritage protection. She holds a P.hD. in cultural heritage, and as a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy) she deals with the protection of archaeological sites and their architectural preservation. She is also an author of several scientific publications.
