Director, SDG Lab, United Nations Office at Geneva
Nadia is the Director of the SDG Lab serving as the leader of the team. She is part of the Senior management team of UNOG and led the creation and setting up of the SDG Lab in 2016
She has a long career in international development with several years of field experience in bilateral cooperation and extensive experience in multilateral affairs within and outside of the UN system. Nadia started her career with Médecins Sans Frontières and the Swiss Red Cross before joining the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation where she served for several years in Eastern Africa working primarily in the field of public health.
She has extensive experience in working with a variety of different partners, including the private sector, especially in the field of public health where she spent many years in charge of programs to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
After serving with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, she joined the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs where she served as a Swiss diplomat for over 10 years, first as Deputy Head of Development Affairs at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN in New York, before leading on development affairs and the SDGs at the Swiss Mission to the UN in Geneva.
She holds Bachelor’s degree in Arts and a a Master’s degree in Contemporary History from University of Geneva and academic post graduate certificates from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Nadia is a Swiss-British citizen and speaks French, English, German, Spanish and Portuguese.