Speakers

Ms. Dominique Hyde is the Director of External Relations at UNHCR, responsible for partnerships with governments, civil society, UN agencies, and the private sector, as well as communications and advocacy, in support of the UN Refugee Agency’s protection and assistance programmes. She began her career working for the Canadian Government (Senate, House of Commons and Ministry of Foreign Affairs). She later joined IOM in Haiti. From 1997 to 2010, she worked for WFP where she held different positions in Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Iraq, Italy and Nepal. In September 2010, she joined UNICEF as Representative for Jordan and in late 2013, she moved to New York as the Deputy Director of the Public Partnership Division. In 2017, she joined WHO as the Director for Strategic Engagement at their HQ in Switzerland, before joining UNHCR as the Director of External Relations in January 2019. Dominique has an M.A. in International Relations from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, Master Courses in Economics at the London School of Economics, and a B.A. in Communications from the University of Ottawa, Canada.