Natalia Kawana

Natalia Kawana is an Associate Learning Officer at the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC). She coordinates several leadership and management learning programmes aimed at executive and emerging leaders, including project management, assessments and coaching.

She has over 10 years of experience in teaching, training, communications and digital adoption, having previously worked as Digital Engagement Manager at the software start-up Newired, where she learned how to apply Agile methodologies in her daily work. She previously worked as Project Manager for FullBrand, a spinoff from Armando Testa group, and as an English and Portuguese instructor in different countries. She has also worked as an intern at UNESCO, in Paris, where she produced learning resources for freshwater education in the PALOP countries (African Countries of Portuguese Official Language).

Natalia holds a dual Master of Science degree in International and European Studies from Trento University (Trento, Italy) and Metropolitan University (Prague, Czech Republic), a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Malmö University (Malmö Sweden) and a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Singing from the UNESP (São Paulo, Brazil). In addition, she is a certified Project Manager Professional (PMP®), LEGO Serious Play®facilitator and DiSC® assessment practitioner.

She is fluent in Portuguese, Italian, English and Danish and is currently learning French.

Outside work, Natalia is an opera singer and accomplished alpinist. She is one of the 11 female mountaineers of the Club of 6000, a Brazilian club which unites mountaineers with at least 10 summits over 6000m in the Andes range.