Speaker

Ms. Corinne Fleischer, a national of Switzerland, was appointed the WFP Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa in December 2020. Prior to this, Ms. Fleischer acted as Representative and Country Director for WFP in Syria since May 2018. Her previous assignments were in Rome at WFP’s Headquarters, where she served as Director of Supply Chain from 2015, and as Director of Procurement from 2013 to 2015. Ms. Fleischer joined WFP in 1999 as the Procurement Manager in Ethiopia. From 2001 to 2008, she worked in WFP’s Regional Bureau Bangkok , first as a Procurement Officer then as Chief of Donor Relations. In 2008, she moved to WFP Sudan as the Emergency Coordinator for Greater Darfur and from 2010 served as WFP’s Deputy Regional Director. Prior to her career with WFP, Ms. Fleischer ran her own business in East Africa, carrying out architectural projects for various diplomatic missions. An M.A. graduate from the University of Geneva, Ms. Fleischer started her career with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Sudan. She is fluent in French, German and English and possesses an intermediate level of Arabic.