Project |01 Director of the United Nations and Chair UN Geospatial Network (40 UN Agencies)
Country Outreach, Technology and Innovation at the United Nations​ (1st May 2016 - )

Director position at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). As Chief Country Outreach, Technology and Innovation for the Environment at Division of Early Warning and Assessment - Science Division (DEWA), coordinating delivery of Data and Analytics, Digital Technologies and Strategic Foresight, including the publication of the Foresight Briefs (Compendium 2017-2022) and Foresight Briefs (Summary) and UNEP´s Global Environmental Data Strategy, and the "World Environment Situation Room" (offline presentation here) in the 6 Regions of North America, Latin American and the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, West Asia and Asia and the Pacific. Digital innovation with WESR Wangi - a Digital Companion for the Environment (demonstrating the potentiality of advanced Human Computer Interaction technology). Impact on the ground in Countries worldwide, particularly in the Global South, with UN Reform and Common Country Analysis and Data Strategy Use Cases. A key achievement was also the re-establishment and growth from 4 to 8 of the Network of GRID Centres (Global Resource Information Databases). Since 2019, Chair of the UN Geospatial Network, across 40 agencies and entities of the UN System, strengthening the coherence and coordination of global geospatial information management (The UN Geospatial Strategy Blueprint and UN Geospatial Landscape, the Geospatial for Humanity and Geospatial in Action for the SDGs, and Generic Geospatial Job Profiles, and the One UN Geospatial Situation Room, and global science policy interface GEOTalks, as key achievements).

On 22 July 2022, ECOSOC welcomed and adopted resolution E/RES/2022/24 entitled "Enhancing global geospatial information management arrangements". Two world Congresses: I World Geospatial Information Congress in China (2018), and II World Geospatial Information Congress in India (2022).