Filippo Grandi

Filippo Grandi
Filippo Grandi in 2019
11th United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Assumed office
1 January 2016
Secretary-
General		Ban Ki-moon
António Guterres
Preceded byAntónio Guterres
Succeeded byBarham Salih (designate)
Personal details
Born1957 (age 68–69)
Milan, Italy

Filippo Grandi (born 1957) is an Italian diplomat. Between 2010 and 2014, he was Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).[1]

On November 11, 2015, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced his plans to appoint Grandi as the next United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to take office in 2016.[2]

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