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Ms. Barbara Piazza-Georgi has joined the Arab States as UNFPA Representative for the occupied Palestinian territory country office. Ms. Piazza-Georgi resumed her duties on 1 April 2009.

Prior to this assignment, Ms. Piazza-Georgi served as UNFPA Representative in Burundi from October 2006. During that time, the UNFPA office in Burundi helped conduct the first post crisis population census, and became the first UNFPA recipient of the UN Peacebuilding Fund for a large-scale \"Youth in Peace building\" project.

Ms. Piazza-Georgi has worked with UNDP in a number of countries, for the World Bank, and in UN country team coordination. She has also taught economics at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, and conducted two major quantitative research studies.

She holds degrees in Development Economics, Political Science and International Relation.