Carlotta Sami

Carlotta Sami, was born in Milan in 1970. Since January 2014, she has been the spokesperson for Southern Europe at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) .

Previously she was director general at the Italian branch of Amnesty International and for ten years worked with Save the Children in humanitarian operations in different crisis spots. She started her career in the humanitarian sector in 1998 in the Palestinian Occupied Territories, where, between Bethlehem and Hebron, she was coordinating relief programs in refugee camps.

Carlotta Sami has a PhD in General Theory of Law and graduated in Law. She’s married with a daughter, Matilde, 6.