International Media Contacts

Regional spokespersons

Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Middle East and North Africa

Responsibility	Name	Email	Office phone	Mobile	Twitter handle
Regional Spokesperson for East, Horn and Great Lakes	Dana HUGHES	[email protected]	+254 20 422 422 2120	+254 733 440 536
Regional Spokesperson for West and Central Africa	Romain DESCLOUS	[email protected]	+221 33 859 70 50 ext.2130	+221 786 396 385	@UNHCRWestAfrica
Regional Spokesperson for Southern Africa	Hélène CAUX	[email protected]	+27(0)12 762 7406		@helenecaux

Responsibility	Name	Email	Office phone	Mobile	Twitter handle
Regional Spokesperson for Central America and Mexico	Sibylla BRODZINSKY	[email protected]		+1 202 640 0245	@Sibylla21
Regional Spokesperson for South America	Olga SARRADO	[email protected]		+507 6640 0185	@OlgaSarradoMur
Regional Spokesperson for USA and the Caribbean	Chris BOIAN	[email protected]	+1 202 243 7634	+1 202 489-6884	@ChrisBoian

Responsibility	Name	Email	Office phone	Mobile	Twitter handle
Regional Spokesperson for Asia and the Pacific	Catherine STUBBERFIELD	[email protected]	+66 2 407 3090	+66 65 929 8062	@catherineunhcr
Communications Officer - Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific	Kasita ROCHANAKORN	[email protected]	+66 2 407 3089	+66 64 932 0803	@KasitaRoch

Responsibility	Name	Email	Office phone	Mobile	Twitter handle
Regional Spokesperson for Southern Europe	Carlotta SAMI	[email protected]	+39 06 802 123 16	+39 335 679 47 46	@UNHCRItalia @CarlottaSami
Regional Spokesperson for Northern Europe (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden)	Elisabeth Arnsdorf HASLUND	[email protected]	+45 45 33 65 16	+45 21 42 55 64	@MsHaslund
Regional Spokesperson for Central Europe	Zoran STEVANOVIC	[email protected]	+36 1 336 3079	+36 305 309 633	@zoranmedia
Regional Spokesperson for South Eastern Europe	Neven CRVENKOVIC	[email protected]	+387 (0)33 290 470	+387 (0)61 611 082	@NC_UNHCR
Regional Spokesperson for EU Affairs	Maeve PATTERSON	[email protected]	+32 2 627 5980	+32 470 99 54 35	@mpat79

Responsibility	Name	Email	Office phone	Mobile	Twitter handle
Senior Communication Advisor and Spokesperson - Regional Bureau for the Middle East and North Africa	Rula AMIN	[email protected]	+962 (0)6 510 04 60 Ext.2108	+962 (0)790 04 58 49	@RulaAmin
Senior Communications Officer - Regional Bureau for the Middle East and North Africa	Andreas KIRCHHOF	[email protected]		+962 791 825 473	@andreaskirchh

Responsibility	Name	Email	Office phone	Mobile	Twitter handle
Burkina Faso	Moussa BOUGMA	[email protected]	+226 253 405 22		@UNHCR_BF
Burundi	Bernard NTWARI	[email protected]	+257 22 22 32 45 ext.2112	+257 78 310 564 +257 79 204 364
Cameroon	Xavier BOURGOIS	[email protected]		+237 690 049 996	@RefugeesCmr
CAR	Stella Fatime	[email protected]		+236 755 58 464	@UNHCR_CAR
Chad	Simplice KPANDJI	[email protected]		+235 68 59 3060	@UnhcrTchad
Côte d'Ivoire	Daouda GUIROU	[email protected]	+225 22 52 76 76	+225 0643 0761	@UNHCRCIV
Democratic Republic of Congo	Johannes VAN GEMUND	[email protected]		+243 817 009 484
Democratic Republic of Congo	Alexandra Stenbock-Fermor	[email protected]		+243 8 222 53 121
Democratic Republic of Congo	Fabien Fevre	[email protected]		+243825443419
Republic of Congo	Mohamed Ag ASSORY	[email protected]	+242 05 596 40 22	+242 05 596 40 22
Djibouti	Vanessa PANALIGAN	[email protected]	+253 213 522 ext.2108	+253 77 23 01 80	@UNHCRDjibouti
Ethiopie	Kisut GEBREEGZIABHER Chris MELZER Juliette STEVENSON	[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]	+251 116 612 822	+251 911 208 901 +251 97 819 9207 +251 944 109 031	@Kisut_g
Ghana	Patience FOLLEY	[email protected]			@UNHCRGhana
Kenya	Eujin BYUN	[email protected]		+254 798 487 988	@eujin2
Malawi	Rumbani Msiska	[email protected]	+265 1 772 155	+265 999 911 830
Mali	Chadi OUANES	[email protected]	+223 20 290 518	+223 75 997 247	@UNHCRMali
Niger	Jean-Sébastien Josset	[email protected]		+227 90 76 69 77	@UNHCRNiger
Nigeria	Roland SCHOENBAUER	[email protected]		+234 90 10 66 46 95	@R_Schoenbauer
Nigeria	Gabriel Damilare Adeyemo	[email protected]		+234 901 066 0496	@UNHCRNigeria
Rwanda					@RefugeesRwanda
Senegal	Gosia Courtay	[email protected]		+221 765 337 429
South Sudan	Vi TRAN Aoife MCDONNELL	[email protected] [email protected]		+211 92 998 6365 +211 92 265 4116	@UNHCRSouthSudan
Sudan	Sophia JESSEN Giulia RAFFAELLI	[email protected] [email protected]		+249 900 921 267 +249 91 216 7016	@UNHCRinSudan
Tanzania	Faya Foko MILLIMOUNO	[email protected]	+255 22 26 02 708 10	+255 784 730 427
Togo	Sefako SOSSA	[email protected]
Uganda
Zambia	Kelvin SHIMO	[email protected]	+260 211 265 873 x6	+260 979 585 832

Responsibility	Name	Email	Office phone	Mobile	Twitter handle
Argentina (covering Southern Latin America)	Analía KIM	[email protected]	+54 11 4014-1600	+54 911 4089-0846	@anitakim_AK
Brazil	Luiz Fernando GODINHO	[email protected]	+55 61 304 457 44 +55 61 304 457 01	+55 61 818 709 78	@LuizFGodinho
Canada	Melanie Gallant Gisèle NYEMBWE	[email protected] [email protected]	+1 613 232 0909 ext. 225	+1 613 850 1268 +1 613 986 4300	@giselenyembwe
Colombia	Rocìo CASTAÑEDA	[email protected]		+57 314 411 54 31	@rociocas99
Costa Rica	Jean Pierre MORA	[email protected]	+506 2242 0714	+506 6364 9354	@jeanpierremora
Ecuador	Ilaria RAPIDO	[email protected]		+593 98 430 8666	@IlariaRapidoR
El Salvador	Oscar RAMIREZ	[email protected]		+503 2209 3585	@oramirezsal
Guatemala	Zasha Millan	[email protected]			@ZashaMillan
Honduras	Pamela VILLARS	[email protected]		+504 2270 7155	@pamevillars
Panama	Angela FLOREZ	[email protected]		+507 693 00 655	@angieflorez_
Peru	Regina DE LA PORTILLA	[email protected]		+51 959 908 967	@ReDeLaP
USA New-York	Dana SLEIMAN	[email protected]	+1 212 963 6211	+ 1 347 541 1790	@DanaSleiman
USA Washington (Spanish language media)	Andrea MUCINO-SANCHEZ	[email protected]	+1 202 751 9000		@andyymucino
Venezuela	Luca NICOSIA	[email protected]		+58 (0) 4145140394	@ACNUR_Venezuela

Responsibility	Name	Email	Office phone	Mobile	Twitter handle
Afghanistan	Mohammad Nader FARHAD	[email protected]	+93 20 220 0381	+93 791 99 00 18
Australia	Jade HERRON	[email protected]	+61 2 6281 9107	+61 424 545 569
Bangladesh (Cox's Bazaar)	Louise DONOVAN	[email protected]		+880 18 4732 7279
Bangladesh (Cox's Bazaar)	Areez RAHMAN	[email protected]		+880 1706 572 715
Bangladesh	Joseph TRIPURA	[email protected]unhcr.org		+880 1713 090 375
China	ZHANG Siran	[email protected]	+86 10 6532 0975	+86 13 80 121 96 03
China	XU nan	[email protected]	+86 10 6532 0975	+86 13 91 00 57 802
India	Kiri ATRI	[email protected]	+91 11 435 30 444 (2102)	+91 95 60 46 11 69	@KiriAtri
Indonesia	Mitra Salima SURYONO	[email protected]	+62 21 2964 3602	+62 811 136 1046	@Mitrasalima
Iran	Farha BHOYROO	[email protected]	+98 21 89349 112	+98 912 132 7183	@FarhaBhoyroo
Japan	Yuki MORIYA	[email protected]	+81 334 992 042	+81 90 1709 7620	@UNHCR_Tokyo
Myanmar	Reuben LIM Wende Stephanie FERRY	[email protected] [email protected]
Myanmar	Yin Yin MYINT	[email protected]		+95 943 12 18 30
Korea, Republic of	Heinn SHIN	[email protected]	+82 2 773 7012	+82 10 2033 0565	@heinn81
Malaysia	Yante ISMAIL	[email protected]	+603 21 17 14 40	+601 3 352 6286	@yanteism
Nepal	Deepesh DAS SHRETA	[email protected]	+977 1 441 2521 +977 1 441 4724	+977 98 51 0819 31
Pakistan	Qaiser Khan AFRIDI	[email protected]	+92 51 260 08 60-76	+92 (0) 300 501 8696	@qaiserafridi
Philippines	Althea GONZALES	[email protected]	+63 2 403 2336	+63 917 844 3180	@unhcrph
Thailand	Jennifer HARRISON	[email protected]		+66 822 908 831	@MsJenniferH

Responsibility	Name	Email	Office phone	Mobile	Twitter handle
Albania	Artur MARKU	[email protected]	+355 42 276 600/ext.612	+355 69 600 64 76
Armenia	Anahit HAYRAPETYAN	[email protected]	+374 10 54 5936/105	+374 91 41 61 27
Austria	Ruth SCHOEFFL	[email protected]	+43/1 26060 5307	+43/699 1459 5307	@CorneliaRuth
Azerbaijan	Elsevar AGHAYEV	[email protected]	+994 12 492 1443	+994 50 214 6037	@Elsevar_Aghayev
Belgium	Frederik BORDON	[email protected]	+32(0)2 627 5932	+32(0) 476 420 134	@UNHCRBelgie @UNHCRBelgique
Bosnia & Herzegovina	Neven CRVENKOVIC	[email protected]	+387 (0)33 290 370	+387 (0)61 611 082	@NC_UNHCR
Bulgaria	Borislav GROZDANOV	[email protected]	+359 2 980 24 50	+359 878 865 431
Croatia	Jan KAPIC	[email protected]	+385 137 134 15	+385 911 150 115
Cyprus	Emilia STROVOLIDOU	[email protected]	+37 223 590 43	+357 9983 2614
Denmark	Elisabeth Arnsdorf HASLUND	[email protected]	+45 45 33 65 16	+45 21 42 55 64	@MsHaslund
France and Monaco	Céline SCHMITT	[email protected]	+33 1 44 43 48 55	+33 6 23 16 11 78
Georgia	Nino KAJAIA	[email protected]	+995 322 386 202 ext2071	+995 595 11 54 64	@UNHCRGeorgia
Germany	Chris MELZER	[email protected]	+ 49 30 202 202 10	+49 151 706 660 13	@ChrisMelzer_NYC
Germany	Martin RENTSCH	[email protected]	+49 30 202 202 15	+49 151 706 660 15	@MartinRentsch
Greece	Stella NANOU	[email protected]	+30 216 200 7800	+30 694 458 6037
Greece	Peter KESSLER	[email protected]	+30 21 6200 7813	+30 695 185 46 61	@cpeterkessler
Hungary	Erno SIMON	[email protected]	+36 1 336 33 45	+36 30 657 03 23	@Embrrrr
Ireland	Jody CLARKE	[email protected]	+353 1 631 4614	+353 87 989 3461	@jodyhclarke
Italy	Federico FOSSI	[email protected]	+39 34 908 434 61	+39 349 084 3461
Italy	Barbara MOLINARIO	[email protected]	+39 06 802 123 33	+39 33 85 46 29 32
Kosovo	Shpend HALILI	[email protected]	+ 383 38 241 509	+ 377 45 286 862	@ShpendHalili
Lithuania	Renata KULES	[email protected]	+ 370 5210 7416		@RenataKules
Luxembourg	Frederik BORDON	[email protected]	+32(0)2 627 5932	+32(0) 476 420 134
FYRo Macedonia	Ljubinka BRASHNARSKA	[email protected]	+389 231 186 41 ext. 202	+389 722 693 46	@brashnarska
Malta	Fabrizio ELLUL	[email protected]	+356 22 489 401	+356 99 69 00 81
Montenegro	Aleksandra Celar PEROVIC	[email protected]	+382 (0) 20 447 429	+382 (0) 69 060 118
Netherlands	Femke JOORDENS	[email protected]	+31 70 250 18 07	+31 6 23 84 55 60	@unhcrnederland
Poland	Rafał KOSTRZYNSKI	[email protected]	+48 22 390 3860	+48 788 22 40 10	@UNHCRPoland
Romania	Gabriela LEU	[email protected]	+40 21 201 7898	+40 722 212097
Russian Federation	Dinara GALAKHOVA	[email protected]	+7 495 660 0859	+7 903 721 7560	@UNHCRussia
Serbia	Mirjana IVANOVIC-MILENKOVSKI	[email protected]	+381 11 308 2100/103	+ 381 63 275 154
Spain	Maria Jesus VEGA	[email protected]	+34 91 556 35 03	+34 670 661 263	@ACNURspain
Spain	Rosa OTERO	[email protected]	+34 91 556 35 03 x22	+34 670 661 263	@RosaOteroG
Sweden	Elisabeth Arnsdorf HASLUND	[email protected]	+45 45 33 65 16	+45 21 42 55 64	@MsHaslund
Switzerland and Liechtenstein	Charlotte WALSER	[email protected]	+41 31 309 60 93	+41 31 309 60 93
Turkey	Selin UNAL	[email protected]	+90 312 409 7065	+90 530 2827862	@selinunal79
United Kingdom	Matthew SALTMARSH	saltmars[email protected]	+44(0)203 761 8091	+44(0)7880 230 985	@MattSaltmarsh
Ukraine	Victoria ANDRIEVSKA	[email protected]	+380 44 288 9424 (ext. 128)	+380 50 413 8404	@UNHCRUkraine

Responsibility	Name	Email	Office phone	Mobile	Twitter handle
Algeria	Russell FRASER	[email protected]		+213 661 278 876	@fraserunhcr
Egypt	Ragnhild EK	[email protected]		+20 120 042 1996
Egypt	Christine BESHAY	[email protected]	+2 022 728 56 00	+2 012 835 798 32	@UNHCREgypt
Jordan	Lilly CARLISLE	[email protected]	+962 65 30 27 73		@LillyCarlisle
Iraq	Firas AL-KHATEEB	[email protected]		+964 780 918 9700	@UNHCRIraq
Israel	Sharon HAREL	[email protected]	+972 (0)3 637 6504	+972 (0)52 3240 118
Jordan	Mohammad HAWARI (Arabic)	[email protected]		+962 79 89 56 781	@malhawari
Lebanon	Lisa ABOU KHALED	[email protected]	+961 1 849 201, ext: 2134	+961 71 880 070	@lisa_ak @UNHCRLebanon
Libya	Tarik ARGAZ	[email protected]	+216 299 612 95	+218 919 10 02 16 07	@UNHCRLibya
Libya	Caroline Gluck	[email protected]		M/WhatsApp +218 91 000 7195 (Tripoli) M/WhatsApp +216 299 255 06 (Tunis)
Mauritania	Viola Eleonora BRUTTOMESSO	[email protected]		+222 4278 2305	@Banfsajya
Morocco	Malgorzata BRATKRAJC	[email protected]	+212 537 75 79 92	+212 661 95 85 63	@UnhcrMorocco
North Lebanon	Khaled KABBARA	[email protected]		+961 70 100 740
East Lebanon, Bekaa	Tatiana AUDI	[email protected]		+961 71 910 335
Syria	Mysa KHALAF	[email protected]	+963 11 218 12 147	+963 9933 57 860
Tunisia	Chiara CAVALCANTI	[email protected]	+216 719 633 83	+216 505 043 73	@cavalcantichi
Yemen	Duniya ASLAM KHAN	[email protected]		+92 334 7961 323

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Shabia Mantoo

William Spindler

Boris Cheshirkov

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