Paolo Artini has worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) since 1993. He has worked in several countries including Kuwait, Mauritania and Ethiopia. He has also spent long periods in the Balkans, including Sarajevo, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in Italy, where he led the UNHRC’s Protection Department. Before being appointed as the HCR’s representative to France in 2018, he was the deputy representative for the HCR to Turkey and was a regional representative of Western Europe.

Paolo Artini graduated from the University of Pavia with a degree in law and has a degree in development studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.