Maria-Francesca Spatolisano

Assistant Secretary General, Officer in Charge, Office of SG's Envoy on Technology

Maria-Francesca Spatolisano is the Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, UN DESA, since March 2019. At the beginning of February 2021, she was also appointed as the Officer-in-Charge of the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology in her personal capacity.

Ms. Spatolisano has 35 years of experience in public service including extensive senior leadership in multilateral affairs. She has served as the European Union Ambassador to the OECD and UNESCO, Monaco, and Andorra. She was a member of the EU Delegation to the United Nations, serving as the Head of its Economic and Trade Section, covering all issues related to trade, development and environmental policies in the Second Committee and ECOSOC; she also represented the EC to the Fifth Committee.