Filippo Grandi

Filippo Grandi has been the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees since 2016. He served as commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees from 2010 to 2014, having been the organisation’s deputy commissioner general since 2005. Previously, Grandi served as deputy special representative of the UN secretary-general in Afghanistan, following a long career with non-governmental organisations and later with UNHCR in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Geneva.