Ms. Katyna Argueta was appointed as Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Brazil in April 2019 and is the Director of the IPC-IG. Originally from Honduras, she started her career with the UNDP in 2003, first as a consultant to Honduras Country Office Representation and subsequently as HR Unit coordinator. She also worked as Deputy Country Director in Panama (2009-2012) and Haiti (2013-2015). Since 2016, she has acted as Country Director to UNDP in Mexico. A career diplomat holding an ambassador status, she has worked in the Ministry of Foreig Affairs of Honduras as alternate Representative of the Honduran Permanent Mission to the Organization of American States (OAS), General Director of Foreign Policy, Chief of Staff of the Minister, Second Secretary of the Honduran Embassy in Great Britain and Protocol Officer. In the private sector, she has held positions as director of public relations and communications, corporate planning manager and served as president of a financial institution. Ms. Argueta has a specialisation in management and administration and graduated from the Andrés Bello Diplomatic Academy, in Chile.

Charlotte holds a Master’s Degree in Poverty and Development from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the University College Maastricht, Netherlands. At the IPC-IG, Charlotte has been working on child- and gender-sensitive social protection in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), South Asia and Latin America. Since 2020, she has also been analysing and mapping the social protection responses to the Covid-19 crisis across the world and provided technical assistance to countries in the Global South. Before joining the Centre in September 2016, she worked as a Research Assistant for the Centre for Social Protection (CSP) at IDS as well as for the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) in Brazil and the Ministry for National Planning and Economic Policy (MIDEPLAN) in Costa Rica. Charlotte’s main research interest lies in the area of gender and social policies.

Luca holds a Master’s Degree in Law from Università degli Studi di Milano and a LL.M. in Food Law from LUISS School of Law. He previously worked as an intern at the International Chamber of Commerce in Rome, at the European Commission—DG AGRI— in Brussels. He is currently a consultant at the IPC-IG, and his main research areas include food and agriculture, sustainable development, poverty reduction and social protection.

Marina holds a BA in International Relations from São Paulo State University, a Master’s degree in Development Studies from Lund University, Sweden, and a Specialisation in Project Management from ESALQ/USP. Marina has experience with social projects, knowledge management, fundraising and e-learning. She completed an internship at the IPC-IG in the Project Management area in 2014 and is currently working at the Centre as a Knowledge Management Senior Assistant in the socialprotection.org team. Among other activities, she is involved with the TRANSFORM project.

Roberto is the Coordinator of the IPC-IG’s Publications Team. He holds a BA in International Business Administration, with further specialisation in Online Journalism, as well as a Master’s degree in Administration in Marketing and Communications. Before joining the IPC-IG/UNDP he has also accrued significant experience with other international organisations such as the World Health Organization, the Pan-American Health Organization, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the World Bank. His activities at the Centre include managing the Editorial and Desktop Publishing teams...

Fabiana is the Communications Officer at IPC-IG. She holds a masters´ degree in Corporate Communications and Public Relations by New York University (NYU). She has over 10 years of professional experience in media relations and corporate communications. Fabiana has already worked in the private sector, in the Government, and in the UN System, where she invested more than half of her professional life. She was a Communication Consultant at UNICEF HQ in New York in 2010, Communications Assistant at UNDP Brazil in 2014/2015 and at UNESCO in Brazil from 2015 to 2019. For three months, she was also a Communication Consultant at the WFP Centre of Excellence Against Hunger in Brazil.

Maria Teresa holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Brasilia (UnB), a Master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Vienna and a Specialisation in Public Policy from UnB. She has 20 years of professional experience in international technical cooperation with international organisations and federal government bodies. She worked as manager of the UNDP State Office in Bahia for three years, and since 2009 has held the position of Programme Officer responsible for the UNDP’s social policy and infrastructure projects in Brasília.

André holds a BA in Computer Information Systems, specialising in the Internet and distributed objects, from the University of Brasília. He is certified by Sun Microsystems, Inc. in Java Programming Technology and by the United Kingdom’s Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). At the IPC-IG, he performs such IT duties as network administration, hardware and software installation and troubleshooting, Internet/Intranet page design and end-user support. André is also the Focal Point for UNSECOORD, being responsible for maintaining a security plan for the IPC-IG.