Christophe Pasquier, GEM PGE 2004, joins UNICEF as Resource Mobilization Manager for Sanitation and Water for All

International beginnings  

Christophe began his career with several experiences abroad. He worked for a few years in Vietnam and Cambodia before heading to Burkina Faso to work for Air France on an international corporate volunteer program contract (VIE).

He then made his way back to France and joined the CMA CGM headquarters in Marseille before moving to Paris to take on a role as International Budget Officer for Bolloré Africa Logistics. 

A pivot point: the humanitarian field 

In 2012, he made a career shift into the humanitarian field, joined Handicap International in Lyon, and relocated to Washington DC with the company a few years later. In 2017, he was appointed Deputy Director of US Institutional Funding where he was in charge of new business development for USAID and the State Department.

After more than 9 years with Handicap International, in May 2021 he was recruited by the United Nations in New York City to be Resource Mobilization Manager for Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), a UNICEF integrated fund. 

SWA is the United Nations-hosted global multi-stakeholder partnership of governments and their partners from civil society, the private sector, United Nations agencies, research and learning institutions, development banks and the donor community, for achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 6 - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

The mission of the SWA partnership is to eliminate inequalities in realizing the human rights to water and sanitation – by raising political will, ensuring good governance, and helping to optimize financing. The partnership focuses on the hardest to reach and most vulnerable individuals, communities, countries and regions, and puts women and girls at the center, not just as passive recipients, but as dynamic agents of change. SWA works by harnessing the collective power of its partners, to support government-led, multi-stakeholder action at national, regional, and global levels