Daniela Cicchella is the Representative a.i. of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Ankara, Türkiye.
After joining the UN Refugee Agency in Türkiye in 1995, she worked in different management positions in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, with three assignments at Headquarters in Geneva and several field deployments. Her most recent positions have included Assistant Representative in Jordan (2013-2018) where she managed the protection response during the Syrian emergency, and the Division of External Relations at UNHCR Headquarters in charge of Communicating with Communities (2018-2020), before her assignment as UNHCR Deputy Representative in 2020.
Daniela Cicchella, a qualified attorney to the Supreme Court of Justice in Italy, holds an LLM in Sociology of Law/Criminology (Spain/UK) and an MA in Legal Theory/Anthropology (Belgium/France).