Ms. Kristine Blokhus, a Norwegian national, has been the UNFPA Representative in Uganda since September 2025.She has over 20 years of experience in international development and humanitarian response. She was previously UNFPA Representative in Bangladesh, where she led UNFPA’s development and humanitarian efforts, including in the Rohingya refugee response, focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender-based violence, adolescent and youth empowerment, and population data for development.
Prior to this, she served as UNFPA Representative to the State of Palestine for three years, overseeing development and humanitarian work across the West Bank and Gaza. She previously worked as Deputy Representative at the UNFPA office in Nepal. She has also held leadership roles with UNFPA and UNDP country offices in South and South-East Asia, Central America and the Caribbean, the Balkans, and within UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS in New York.
Before joining the UN, she worked at the International Planned Parenthood Federation and in research roles in academia and international development consulting firms in the UK and Norway. Ms. Blokhus holds a Master’s Degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and a double bachelor’s degree in Political Science and French from the University of Warwick. She speaks English, French, and Spanish, in addition to her native Norwegian.
