ABOUT THE THEME
GUEST SPEAKER
Mr. Matija Kovač
Head of the United Nations Philippines Resident Coordinator's Office
Mr. Matija Kovač has joined UN Philippines in 2023 from North
Macedonia, where he served as the Head of RC Office since
early 2020. He also supported RCOs in Sudan (2021) and
Kyrgyzstan (2022) in the same capacity. Before joining the UN
RC System, he was with the UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) where he worked in the areas of
humanitarian financing, coordination and resource mobilization
in Somalia, Sudan, Ukraine and with the Central Emergency
Response Fund (CERF) in New York. Prior to OCHA he worked for
the UN in Sudan, had various short-term assignments in the
fields of development and humanitarian response, and had
worked in the private sector in Switzerland and Kenya. He is
Slovenian, holds a Diploma in Political Science and Master’s
degrees in International Affairs and in International Law.
(Taken directly from
United Nations Philippines Website.)