The UN Resident Coordinator's Office

The Resident Coordinator is the designated representative of the United Nations Secretary-General to Myanmar and is responsible for the coordination of UN activities in the country. Recognizing that the three global pillars of the UN, development, peace and security and human rights, are interlinked and mutually reinforcing, the UN System in Myanmar works under the leadership of the Resident Coordinator to ensure a harmonized approach to support Myanmar to achieve its priorities, in line with the 2030 Global Development Agenda – The Sustainable Development Goals – and internationally agreed treaties and standards.

The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar

The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator a.i. for Myanmar is Mr. Marcoluigi Corsi.

Mr. Marcoluigi Corsi was appointed as UNICEF Representative to Myanmar in December 2021, and assumed his role in Yangon in May 2022.

Prior to his appointment, he served as Deputy Regional Director for UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Region from February 2020. He also served as UNICEF Representative in Mozambique from September 2015 till January 2020, and in Bolivia from August 2011 till July 2015.

He had been twice UNICEF’s Deputy Representative in Indonesia from 2005 to 2011 and in Eritrea from 2002 till 2005. Before that, he served as Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of UNICEF programmes in Somalia and was responsible for programme monitoring and evaluation at a community-based planning and coordination unit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

An Italian national, Mr. Marcoluigi Corsi holds a master’s degree in international political sciences from the La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy.