Director, Office of Sustainable Development Goals, Head, UN Food Systems Coordination Hub.
Stefanos Fotiou is an international expert on environment and sustainable development with over 25 years of experience in the United Nations system, private sector and research organizations. He currently serves as Director in the Office of Sustainable Development Goals in FAO as well as Head of the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub hosted by FAO. In these roles, Stefanos provides strategic leadership and oversees implementation mechanism to support countries developing and implementing SDGs based agrifood transformations.
Prior to joining FAO, Stefanos served16 years in the UN Secretariat including6years as Director in the Environment and Development Division of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific as well as 10 years in the UNEP leading global and regional work on green economy and sustainable consumption and production.