Director, UNITAR Hiroshima Office for Asia and the Pacific

hiroshima@unitar.org

+81 82 511 2424

+81 82 211 0511

Nassrine Azimi has a post-graduate degree in urban studies from the School of Architecture of the University of Geneva. She is also a graduate in political science from the University of Lausanne and in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and has completed a programme of communication and journalism at Stanford University. At UNITAR, Ms. Azimi has been the Coordinator of environmental training programmes, Deputy to the Executive Director, and Chief of the New York Office of UNITAR, respectively. She directs the publications for the UNITAR-IPS-JIIA conference series in peacekeeping, under which she has edited six books. In 2003, Ms. Azimi was invited as a visiting scholar to the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. In May 2003 the Board of Trustees and the Executive Director of UNITAR approved Ms. Azimi as the first Director of the UNITAR Hiroshima Office for Asia and the Pacific.