Marina Catena

Lieutenant Marina Catena engaged in the peacekeeping operation UNIFIL in Lebanon

Marina Catena is the Director of the United Nations World Food Programme[1] in Paris and Lieutenant of the Italian Army (Specialized Reserve).

Career

In 1987, she obtained the International Baccalaureate at the United World College of the Adriatic. She attended the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) in Rome where she graduated in Political Sciences (International Relations). In 1990 she became a flight attendant for Air France.

In 1989 she was among the first Italian students of the Erasmus Programme at Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg. In 1992 she started her career in Brussels at the European Commission with various positions including DG Development, Food aid and food security and ECHO, European Community Humanitarian Aid Office as public affairs officer. She worked on humanitarian communication and awareness campaigns in favour of children in the Balkan conflicts as well as Afghan women by conceiving and launching the worldwide campaign "A flower for the women of Kabul" (1996) in collaboration with Benetton’s photograph Oliviero Toscani.

In June 1999 she was appointed political adviser to the Minister Bernard Kouchner, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Kosovo (UNMIK) till 2001, in charge of external relations and outreach with the Kosovo war-thorn society. In October 2003, she was appointed special advisor of Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Bagdad (Iraq), and was in charge of projects for the empowerment of Iraqi women as well as development projects with the Italian troops for Mission "Ancient Babylon" (Nassyria).

In 2005 she became Lieutenant of the Italian Army (Specialized Reserve) and attended the Military Academy in Turin. In 2007 she served as Blue Helmet for the UNIFIL peace keeping mission in Lebanon with the Folgore Parachute Brigade as polad to the Chief Commander Sector West (Tebnine). She attended the École Militaire in Paris where she graduated from the Ecole supérieure des officiers de réserve spécialistes d’état-major (ESORSEM) in 2009. In June 2009, she joined the Office of the Italian Prime Minister for the organization of the G8 Summit in L'Aquila after the earthquake. In 2013 she was appointed ERASMUS Famous Alumni by the European Commission, an elite panel of European personalities who took part to the Erasmus Programme.

"805 million names" Press conference with Zlatan Ibrahimovic PHOTO JEAN-MARIE HERVIO / TEAMPICS / PSG

Since 1999, she is an official of the United Nations World Food Programme. Currently she is the Director of the United Nations World Food Program for France and the Principality of Monaco (HQ in Paris). In February 2015, she conceived, managed and launched the global awareness campaign "805 million names" with football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic and ad agency Forsman & Bodenfors that won several awards among which Cannes Lions Gold award (June 2015) and two Grand awards at CLIO Sports award (July 2015). The campaign was also desplayed on maxi screens at Times Square in New York on 25 June 2015.

Honors

Writings

References

  1. ↑ "Marina Catena: soldier and humanitarian". euronews. 5 September 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2011.

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