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Krista Pikkat
UNESCO
Director, Culture and Emergencies
Biography
Krista Pikkat is the Director of Culture and Emergencies at UNESCO’s Culture sector. In this capacity, she also serves as the Secretary of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two Protocols (1954, 1999), the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property and the 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.
Previously, Ms. Pikkat held the positions of Director of the UNESCO Office in Almaty (Kazakhstan) covering Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and Head of the UNESCO Office in Tashkent (Uzbekistan).
Before moving to the field, Ms Pikkat has served the Organization in different capacities at the Headquarters, including at the Sector for External Relations and Cooperation, the Cabinet of the Director-General and the Bureau for Strategic Planning.
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