UNICEF Representative to the Philippines (ad interim)

Behzad Noubary is UNICEF Representative to the Philippines ad interim beginning January 2025. He provides strategic leadership and coordinates UNICEF’s Programme of Cooperation with the Government of the Philippines.

Behzad joined UNICEF Philippines as Deputy Representative for Programmes in November 2020. Previously, he served as UNICEF Deputy Representative in Morocco. Since joining UNICEF in 2008, Behzad has held various assignments in New York, Gabon, DR Congo, and Yemen, bringing a wealth of experience and expertise in children’s rights and development across different regions and programmatic areas.

Prior to joining UNICEF, Behzad worked as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the US and served in the Peace Corps in Burkina Faso where he was a secondary-school mathematics teacher. He holds degrees from Columbia University, New York and Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Behzad is married and has two daughters.