Juan-Carlos Brandt, a national of Venezuela, is the Chief of Advocacy and Special Events in the United Nations' Department of Public Information. He is responsible for the Creative Community Outreach Initiative and the Messengers of Peace and Goodwill Ambassadors Programme.
Before his current responsibilities, Mr. Brandt managed the relationship between 1600 representatives of Civil Society and the Organization's information department as Chief of the Non Governmental Organizations' Section (NGOs).
Prior to this, Mr. Brandt served as Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Australia and the South Pacific, based in Sydney.
Mr. Brandt joined the United Nations in 1984 in the UN Information Centre in Washington, D.C. In 1988, and for the next 10 years, he served as a spokesman for 3 Secretaries-General of the United Nations. Javier Pérez de Cuellar; Boutros Boutros-Ghali; and Kofi Annan.
Before joining the United Nations, Mr. Brandt was the Director of the New York-based Venezuelan Government Tourist and Information Centre for the United States and Canada, and the Press Counsellor for the Permanent Mission of Venezuela to the United Nations.
Prior to that position he worked in his country's communications and advertising industry, both in the private and public sectors.
Mr. Brandt graduated from the Catholic University in Caracas, where he earned a degree in Communications and Journalism.
Born in England, Mr. Brandt is married and has six children.
