Caitlin Wiesen

Resident Representative (ad interim)

Ms. Wiesen has more than 30 years of experience in international development, working across a broad range of areas, including sustainable development, energy transitions, poverty reduction, anticipatory governance, innovation and strategic partnerships.

Throughout her career at UNDP, she has held a wide range of senior management and policy advisory positions. Most recently, she served as UNDP Resident Representative ad interim in India in 2024 and in Timor-Leste in 2023.

From 2017 to 2022, Ms. Wiesen served as UNDP Resident Representative in Viet Nam. Previously, she was Chief of Regional Policy and Programme for Asia and the Pacific from 2013 to 2017 and Regional Manager of the UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Centre from 2013 to 2014. She also served as UNDP Country Director in India from 2010 to 2013.

Ms. Wiesen has held several policy and strategic partnership roles in UNDP’s regional bureaux for Asia and the Pacific and Africa. Based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, she served as Regional Practice Leader and Programme Coordinator for Asia and the Pacific on human rights, gender inequality and the human development dimensions of HIV.

Earlier in her career, she was Senior Adviser on Poverty and Sustainable Human Development for Africa from 1993 to 1998 and Director of the Civil Society Division in UNDP’s Bureau for Strategic Partnerships from 1999 to 2002. Between 2003 and 2006, she served as Senior Adviser and Deputy Director for HIV and Development in the Bureau for Development Policy.

Ms. Wiesen has worked across Asia and the Pacific, Africa, North America and Europe. She holds a Master’s Degree in International Finance and Energy Policy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in the United States, and a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University.

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