Francine Ann Pickup

Francine Pickup is the Deputy Director in UNDP's Bureau for Policy and Programme Support since 2022. Prior to her appointment, Francine was Resident Representative (RR) in Serbia, RR a.i./ Country Director in India, and Deputy Country Director in Indonesia. Before that, she was the Strategic Planning Advisor in the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, and led the UN's Inter-Agency Information and Analysis Unit under the Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary-General in Iraq.

Francine joined the UN in 2002, working with OCHA in Lebanon, Palestine and New York, as well as the office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Process and the FAO in Palestine, and the ILO in Central Asia. She has worked with several development organizations including Amnesty International, Oxfam and the World Bank.

Francine is a graduate of Cambridge University in Social Anthropology, and received her Masters in Development Studies and PhD from the London School of Economics.