Emanuela Goerick is the Head of the UN OHCHR Talent Management and Career Support Unit. She holds a master’s degree in Organizational Psychology from the University of Trier, a Mediation certification from Harvard Law School, a professional coach accreditation from the Internation Coach Federation (ICF) and most recently a postgraduate certification in data science in Human Resources management from the University of Cambridge. 

Emanuela has more than 15 years of Human Resources management experience both in the public and private sectors in New York (USA), Munich (Germany), Budapest (Hungary), Bogota (Colombia), Nicosia (Cyprus) and Geneva (Switzerland). She focuses on providing strategic guidance to all her UN clients at headquarters and in the field. She facilitates retreats, internal and external outreach, manages in-house coaching groups to enhance excellence in management practices and supports innovation and change with internal and external stakeholders in talent management for OHCHR. In 2017 she won the Peacekeeper of the year award of the German Center for Peace Operations and in 2021 she won the Secretary-General award.