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.

Mariana holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA/2017) from Cornell University, USA, a Master’s degree in Political Science (2009) from Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence, France and a BA in Journalism (2004) from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. She is currently working with the IPC-IG’s research team on several monitoring and evaluation projects. From 2009 to 2012 and from 2013 to 2015 Mariana worked with the IPC’s Communications unit as Knowledge Management Assistant and Communications Officer. In 2012, she served as a Communications Consultant for the World Food Programme Centre of Excellence against Hunger in Brasília.

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.

Fernanda joined the IPC-IG team in June 2021 to support in several knowledge management activities on the platform. Fernanda holds a master’s in International Cooperation and Development from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and a BA in International Relations from IESB in Brasília. Professionally, she has experience with project management, the UN system, data collection, and analyses, working in different organizations such as ProEpi NGO (Brazil), NATO (Italy), WHO (Switzerland and Egypt) and UNDP (Brazil).

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.

Lorena holds a BA in International Relations from UNESP, a postgraduate course from the Institute of International Relations (IREL), University of Brasília (UnB), focused on international cooperation and international relations in Latin America, and a course on Education, Poverty and Social Inequality, a partnership between UNB, Secretaria de Educação Continuada, Alfabetização, Diversidade e Inclusão (SECADI) and the Ministry of Education (MEC). She joined the Centre’s Programme Management and Operations team in July 2014 and in 2018 she assumed a position as project and operations analyst providing guidance and advisory in areas of human resources, procurement, travel, internship and UNV programmes.

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.