Michael Croft

A native of Nova Scotia, Canada, Michael Croft began his work with UNESCO in 1998 within Headquarters, undertaking various consultancies with the Office of the Director-General before his appointment in 2000 as a Project Officer with the Division of Educational Policies and Strategies dealing with countries in transition. In early 2005, Michael left Paris to begin eleven years of programme management assignments in crisis contexts, concluding in Libya as the UNESCO Representative from 2014 to 2016. In October 2016, Michael returned to UNESCO Headquarters as the Coordinator for Crisis Preparedness and Response (CPR), developing the Organization’s first Strategic Framework for its work in crisis and fragility. Following the Framework’s completion, he was appointed in July 2017 as the Organization’s representative in Viet Nam. In August 2021, he began a new assignment as the UNESCO Representative in Nepal. Michael is married to Eva Ng’inja-Croft, a lawyer and UNICEF Communications Consultant. They are enjoying discovering their new home, Kathmandu, together with their two young children.