Natalia Kawana
Natalia Kawana is an Associate Learning Officer at UNSSC, as part of the Knowledge Centre for Leadership and Management. She supports several Leadership and Management learning programmes aimed at emerging leaders. She has an extensive teaching, training, communications and digital background, having previously worked as Digital Engagement Manager at the software start-up Newired, and as Project Manager for FullBrand, a spinoff from Armando Testa group. She has also collaborated with Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, where she wrote articles about European digitalization and media freedom in the Caucasus and the Balkan regions, and was an intern at UNESCO, in Paris, where she produced learning resources for freshwater education in the PALOP countries. She holds a dual MS degree in International and European Studies from Trento University (Trento, Italy) and Metropolitan University (Prague), a bachelor's degree in international relations from Malmö University (Malmö, Sweden) and a bachelor's degree in Classical Singing from the UNESP (São Paulo, Brazil). She is fluent in Portuguese, Italian, English and Danish and is currently learning French. When she's not working, she can be found climbing rock walls and frozen waterfalls in the Italian Alps, or singing opera.
