Charlotte Petri Gornitzka

Charlotte Petri Gornitzka is a Swedish management consultant and public administrator who served as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and as deputy executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) from 2018 to 2023.

[1][2] She previously chaired the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD from 2016 until 2018.

She holds a master's degree from Stockholm University College of Music Education (SMI) as well as a degree in Business and Marketing studies from IHM Business School.

[citation needed] From 1998-2002, Petri Gornitzka served as Under Secretary-General and Director of Communications for the Swedish Red Cross.

During that time, she became the initiator of “Swedish Leadership for Sustainable Development”, a network of some twenty leading Swedish companies, three expert organizations and SIDA, working for sustainable development with the objective to reduce poverty.