Ms. Daniela Gasparikova (Slovakia) serves as UNDP Resident Representative to the Republic of Moldova since May 2023.
In her role, Ms. Gasparikova is the UNDP Administrator's representative at the country level, and head of the country office, being ultimately responsible for the quality and sustainability of UNDP interventions, including corporate policies and procedures.
Daniela has 20 years of experience working for UNDP both in Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. Prior to this appointment, Daniela served as the UNDP Resident Representative in Montenegro (2019-2023) and the UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Mongolia (2016-2019).
She also served as the RBM, Monitoring and Evaluation Team Leader in UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub (2011-2016) and led the UNDP Country Programs’ implementation in five Central European Countries out of the UNDP Regional Centre in Bratislava, Slovakia (2005-2010).
In all leadership positions she has avidly advocated for and pursued gender equality and women empowerment, climate change mitigation/adaptation, human capital development and digitalisation as central to the UNDP’s work. Daniela started her development professional career as a Program Officer for Social Inclusion with UNDP Regional Centre in Bratislava, Slovakia.
She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations and Master’s degree in Pedagogy of Modern Linguistics, both from Comenius University in Slovakia.
She speaks English, French, Russian, and Montenegrin/Serbian.
Ms. Andrea Cuzyova (Slovakia) serves as UNDP Deputy Resident Representative to the Republic of Moldova since July 2019.
In her role, Ms. Cuzyova steers strategic planning, programme formulation and partnership engagement in UNDP.
Prior to this appointment, Andrea was the Head of Secretariat of the Regional UN Sustainable Development Group for Asia-Pacific located in UNDP Regional Hub in Bangkok, Thailand, until July 2019. She also served as Deputy Resident Representative a.i. in UNDP Sri Lanka (February 2019 - June 2019), Head of Resident Coordinator’s Office in Bangladesh (January 2012 - July 2014), Head of Resident Coordinator’s Office in Kyrgyzstan (January 2008 - January 2012). In UNDP Headquarters in NY, she held the function of the Policy Specialist in UNDP Bureau for Development Policy (January 2006 - January 2008). Andrea was also the Knowledge Management Officer in the UNDP Regional Hub in Bratislava, Slovakia (2001-2005).
Andrea holds M.A. in European Integration from the University of Limerick in Ireland and M.A. in Russian and English Studies from Comenius University in Slovakia.
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