UK for UNHCR
Lydia Piddock currently serves as the Director of Strategy & Insights at UK for UNHCR since January 2021, bringing a wealth of experience from prior roles, including Head of UK Private Sector Partnerships and Private Sector Fundraising Officer at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, from August 2013 to January 2021. Earlier in their career, Lydia held the position of Corporate Relations Manager at UNICEF from April 2009 to August 2013, and worked as a Corporate Partnerships Executive and Fundraising Officer at CARE from October 2005 to March 2009. Lydia’s professional journey began as a Recruitment Consultant at MSB Resources in 2004. Educational background includes a degree from Kingston University, completed between 2001 and 2004.
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UK for UNHCR is the United Nations Refugee Agency’s national charity for the United Kingdom. Our corporate, trust and foundation partnerships, as well as the generosity of individual supporters, help UNHCR protect people forced to flee conflict, violence and persecution. Our work supports emergency relief operations as well as longer term care to help refugees rebuild their lives, such as healthcare, education and livelihoods programmes. UNHCR operates on more than 120 countries, including major humanitarian crises such as Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and South Sudan. With only 1% of UNHCR’s budget funded by the United Nations, partnerships and donations are critical to UNHCR’s humanitarian work across the world. UK for UNHCR is a registered charity (England & Wales) no. 1183415. ********* UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is the lead United Nations agency dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced people, asylum seekers and stateless persons.