Livio Sarandrea

Global Adviser on Business and Human Rights

Livio joined the ROLSHR Team as a Global Adviser on Business and Human Rights, based in Geneva. He will guide UNDP’s initiative on Business and Human Rights (B+HR) currently operational in 30 countries in five regions.

Prior to this role, he served from January 2015 to March 2023 in UNDP’s Bangkok Regional Hub as Crisis Prevention, Human Rights and Rule of Law Specialist. In this position, between 2015 and 2018, he supported Country Offices in Asia Pacific in implementing policies and programmess on Rule of Law, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention. In this function, Livio also coordinated the work of 11 Peace and Development Advisers and other field-based conflict prevention specialists. 
In 2017, Livio conceived, mobilized resources for, and managed UNDP’s first project on Business and Human Rights: B+HR Asia. From 2019, he has been guiding the scaling up of this project into a global initiative. 

Livio started his international career in Bosnia and Herzegovina where he served from 1997 to 2003, first as Human Rights Officer and Senior Human Rights Officer for the OSCE and then as Chief of Regional Human Rights Office for UNMIBH, the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission.  

From 2003 to 2010, he worked for the OSCE Mission to Serbia as Senior Coordinator for Judicial and Legal Reform and Deputy Head of Rule of Law and Human Rights Department. 

Livio Joined UNDP in 2011 where he worked until 2014 in a Country Office in Mozambique as Chief Technical Adviser embedded in the Ministry of Justice and the National Human Rights Commission.  

Livio is from Italy and holds a Law Degree with specialization in International Law from La Sapienza University, Rome. He is married and has three children.
 

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