Maria Francesca Spatolisano

Maria Francesca Spatolisano is a diplomat of Italian citizenship who has been serving as Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres since December 2018, succeeding Thomas Gass.^[1]

Maria Francesca Spatolisano
Speaking at the World Economic Forum's Global Technology Governance Summit 2021
Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs in the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office December 2018
Personal details
Education	University of Florence
Occupation	Diplomat

Early life and education

Spatolisano earned a Doctorate in Law from the University of Florence.^[1]

Career

A civil servant for the European Commission since 1985, Spatolisano was the European Union Ambassador to the OECD and UNESCO, Monaco and Andorra and was a member of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations.^[1][2]

When Chilean diplomat Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond was suspended from his role as the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology in 2021, Spatolisano ran his office alongside her other duties.^[3][4]