Secretary-General Appoints Ivana Živković of Croatia UNDP Assistant Administrator, Regional Director for Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States

SG/A/2151

9 September 2022

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Ivana Živković of Croatia as Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Ms. Živković succeeds Mirjana Spoljaric Egger of Switzerland who has been elected as the new President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for her commitment and dedicated service to the United Nations.

Ms. Živković is a senior Croatian diplomat, currently serving as the Director-General for Economic Affairs and Development Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia. She has held a number of positions in the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Croatia and had a leading role in setting up the framework for international development cooperation in Croatia.

She holds a master’s degree in international economics from the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb, and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Zagreb.

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