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26.07.2018 - UNESCO Office in Brasilia
UNESCO Director-General appoints new Director and Representative to the Organization in Brazil
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UNESCO Director-General, Ms. Audrey Azoulay, has appointed Ms. Marlova Jovchelovitch Noleto as Director of the UNESCO Office in Brasilia and UNESCO Representative to Brazil. Since May 2017, Ms. Noleto had been designated Officer-in-Charge of the UNESCO Office in Brasilia and UNESCO Representative a.i to Brazil, before being chosen, through a selection process, to officially take over the position she holds currently. The nomination was published last Friday, 20 July, 2018.
Ms. Noleto holds a Master’s degree in Social Work, from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (Brazil). She was both an Eisenhower fellow and a scholar of the Kellogg Foundation, having participated in a professional exchange programme in the United States on social and educational policies, social responsibility, philanthropy and poverty. Likewise, the International Federation of Social Workers sponsored Ms. Noleto for a specialization in Sweden to study welfare state policies. She also completed an executive training on public administration in the New York University Institute of Public Administration (USA).
For more than 10 years, Ms. Noleto taught Methodology and General Theory of Social Work at the Faculty of Social Work of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul.
Ms. Noleto was president of the highest deliberative body for social welfare in Brazil, namely the National Council for Social Welfare, which was responsible for granting philanthropic certificates in the areas of Education, Culture, Health and Social Assistance.
Prior to that, she chaired the Brazilian Confederation of Municipalities and worked both for the government of the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul and FEBEM (Brazilian government’s juvenile detention center). She was also on the Board of different social foundations, such as Maurício Sirotsky Sobrinho Foundation, Abrinq Foundation and Institute for the Development of Social Investment (IDIS).
In 1997, she joined the United Nations system through United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as programme officer for Public Policies and Rights.
In 1999, Ms. Noleto joined UNESCO Brasilia Office as Project Officer and, in 2002, she was designated coordinator for Social and Human Sciences. In 2012, she became Deputy Director for Programme, responsible for coordinating and implementing intersectoral activities covering the five programme areas of UNESCO – Education, Natural Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Culture and Communication and Information. |