Mohammad Fayyazi

Mr. Mohammad Fayyazi was appointed as the UNICEF Representative in Libya as of July 2024.

Mr. Fayyazi has been working for the UN system for the last 24 years. He started his career with UNHCR in 2000 and then joined UNICEF in 2005.

Before taking his current position as Representative in Libya, he was the Representative of UNICEF in Turkmenistan for the past three years.

Fayyazi was the Chief of Field Operations and Emergency Coordinator in UNICEF Lebanon (2019-2021), managing UNICEF presence in five field locations and the humanitarian response to multiple crises in the country. He held a similar role in Afghanistan from 2016 to 2019, overlooking 13 field offices and Emergency response to the conflict, drought and returnee’s crisis in the country.

Fayyazi served as Humanitarian Policy Advisor at Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS) in New York from 2012 to 2016, completing support missions and assignments in Eastern Ukraine, Myanmar, Northern Nigeria, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Kenya, Syria and South Sudan.

Fayyazi worked in Afghanistan as Programme Coordinator for the Central Region from 2010 to 2012. Before this, he was Child Protection Specialist in Western Darfur (El-Geneina, Sudan) from 2008 to 2010, and Child Protection Specialist in UNICEF Iran from 2005 to 2008.

Mohammad Fayyazi is a national of Iran and has a MA in Political Sociology from University of Tehran. He is fluent in English and Arabic.

He can be reached at [email protected].