ROME, SEPTEMBER 13 – Mauro Miedico, an Italian lawyer, is the new Director of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) at the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT).
Miedico, previously Deputy Director of the United Nations Counter Terrorism Centre, worked for 15 years at the Terrorism Prevention Branch of UNODC, including as its director (2016-2018). He has undertaken more than a hundred technical assistance missions and has chaired a large number of regional or sub-regional conferences and workshops, providing technical advice to dozens of countries on counter-terrorism issues.
He has been working with the United Nations since 1996, in the United States, Austria, Haiti, Serbia, Sierra Leone, and Colombia, holding different positions as Legal Advisor with the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and with the United Nations Office of Counter Terrorism (UNOCT). Mr. Miedico has particularly worked in the field of justice reform and as an advisor to a number of governments on criminal justice and on preventing and countering terrorism.
Mr. Mauro Miedico is an Italian attorney at law with post-graduate studies at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Italy, and at Ecole Nationale d’ Administration (ENA) in France. (@OnuItalia)
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