Ms. Agi Veres has 24 years of experience in international development cooperation, UN leadership in the field, as well as at regional and global levels, including in middle-income countries, LDCs and crisis countries. Prior to her UN career, she worked in the private sector for five years.
She is currently serving as the Director of Partnerships and External Relations of UNDP in Geneva, where she is leading UNDP's strategic bilateral and multilateral partnerships and external engagement with International Geneva, development actors, organizational partners, and Member States.
Prior to her current role, she served as the Deputy Director of UNDP's Crisis Bureau a.i., serving as UNDP's emergency director, and as the Director of the UNDP Representation Office in Geneva (2021-2026). She also served UNDP as Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia (2019-2021), overseeing programming and country operations in 19 offices in the region, as well as heading UNDP's Istanbul Regional Centre; UNDP Resident Representative and Country Director in China (2015-2019); and UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Lesotho (2011-2015). Prior to her field positions, she was the Deputy Chief for Policy and Programme and Senior Programme Coordinator in UNDP's Bratislava Regional Centre (2006-2011), and worked in UNDP's Headquarters in New York, leading the Corporate Reporting and Business Analysis Team (2006-2006) and ITC Communications (2002-2005). Before joining UNDP, Ms. Veres worked in the private sector as a Management Consultant for Accenture (1997-2002) in New York and Hungary, in the field of organizational effectiveness and change management.
Ms. Veres is a native of Hungary and has a Master of Science degree in Business Administration from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences (Corvinus University).
