Alessandra Vellucci

Ms. Alessandra Vellucci is the Director of United Nations Information Service in Geneva.

She has been with the United Nations since 1991, at first with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and then with the UN Department of Global Communications (DGC). She joined UNCTAD as an Associate Expert on Training, and then worked as Public Information Officer and Focal Point for Communications. Later she headed the training programme “TrainForTrade”, aimed at strengthening the skills of developing countries’ officials in the field of trade, sustainable development and port management.

In December 2010, she joined DGC as Chief of Press and External Relations of the Geneva UN Information Service, where she oversaw media accreditation and outreach activities for UN Geneva and served as Deputy Spokesperson for the Office.

From 2014 to 2016, she joined UNCTAD again as Head of the Intergovernmental Support Service, Executive Secretary of the Trade and Development Board and Officer-in-Charge of Information and Communications. As such she oversaw the intergovernmental negotiations and the promotion of UNCTAD XIV (Nairobi, July 2016).

In July 2016, she became Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, a position she still holds today. As such, she coordinates all media-related activities at the Palais des Nations, chairs the Geneva UN Communications Group, oversees the activities of UNTV, radio and social media, and supervises outreach events of UN Geneva and the Visitors’ Service. She is also the UN spokesperson in Geneva and holds a bi-weekly press briefing for journalists accredited to the Palais des Nations.

Ms Vellucci holds a Political Science Degree from the Italian University L.U.I.S.S., and a diploma in International Relations with a specialization in International Public Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID). Previously she attended a high-school of languages and is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Italian, her mother tongue.