Lodovico Folin Calabi is the UNESCO Representative in Palestine. From 2012 until 2014, he was UNESCO Representative in Libya and Head of the UNESCO Project Office in Tripoli. He has worked with UNESCO since 2003; until 2011 at the World Heritage Centre, then at the Executive Office of the Assistant Director-General, where he coordinated the World-Heritage-related training and research centers established under UNESCO’s auspices in China, Bahrain, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, and Spain, among other duties. Trained in international corporate law, Mr. Folin Calabi holds a PhD in urban history and is a regular lecturer for the master course in World Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development at the University of Torino, Italy, and at the International Training Centre of ILO, hosted by the UN System Staff College campus.