Paola Albrito is the Head of the United Nations Office for
Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Regional Office for Europe and has covered
disaster risk reduction activities in the European region since 2007. She
joined UNISDR in 2004 during the preparations for the World Conference on
Disaster Reduction in 2004 analyzing the national progress reports received
from national authorities in feeding the Conference with the Outcome Analysis
Document on the status on DRR implementation at the global level. She assisted
the inter-governmental Drafting Committee and Main Committee of the Conference
in charge of developing the Hyogo Declaration and the Hyogo Framework for
Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to
Disasters adopted by the United Nations General Assembly with
resolution 60/195 endorsed by the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held
in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, in January 2005.
In March 2005 she worked on Policy
Issues related topics particularly related to the follow-up to the Hyogo Framework
for Action, including development of guidelines related to indicators towards
assessing disaster risk reduction issues and how to mainstream disaster risk
reduction in sustainable development policy and programme.
Paola holds a Masters in International
Relations and Political Science, University of Turin, with research conducted
at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), London. She worked,
at the beginning of her career, at the United Nations Staff System College
(UNSSC) in Turin, Italy, where she supported UN country teams in developing
sustainable development policies. In 2000 she joined the UN Resident
Coordinator Office in Djibouti as Coordinator/Programme Analyst coordinating
the development of the Common Country Assessment and United Nations Development
Assistance Framework (programmes addressing sustainable development issues).
She also worked as an independent consultant with programme evaluations within
the International Labor Organization.
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