Standing Committees Chairs and Vice-Chairs
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Edwin Titi-Lartey
Standing Committee Chair
Edwin Titi-Lartey
Standing Committee Chair - Social Security/OHS
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Katja Haslinger
Standing Committee Vice-Chair
Katja Haslinger
Standing Committee Vice-Chair - Social Security/OHS
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Paola Franceschelli
Standing Committee Vice-Chair
Paola Franceschelli
Standing Committee Vice-Chair - Social Security/OHS
Paola Franceschelli - In 2018 I joined the FAO Union for General Service Staff (UGSS) at a difficult time for our organization and was elected as Executive Secretary. In this role, I have supported GS colleagues in various initiatives and Staff-Management meetings. Being closer to the Union’s work made me more knowledgeable and passionate about it. Participating in the FICSA Councils has provided new motivation, given the global dimension of the work that I am so interested in.
Last February I was elected Co-Chair of the Standing Committee on Social Security. I am most interested in all matters discussed there, in particular the UN Global Mental Health Strategy and its implementation across the UN system. I joined FAO in 2004 after having worked in the financial markets for 8 years, in Rome and Paris, as money broker. I have travelled extensively, learned several languages and have been involved in political movements and NGOs.
Since my interest in different cultures and people is predominant, I have attended a 3-year course in Counselling, which pulled together several subjects I love: anthropology, psychology, history, dance and the Arts. At the end of the course I practiced my counselling skills as a volunteer for different NGOs supporting human rights. I have spent 16 years in FAO working in the same environment related to genetic resources, first in the Secretariat of the Commission on Genetic Resources and then in the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. I still enjoy these matters thoroughly because of the policy dimension that characterizes the Governing Bodies of both the International Treaty and the Commission.
