Filiep Decorte is currently the Chief (oic) of UN-Habitat’s Programme Development Branch and acting Emergency Director.
During his career, Filiep has predominantly focused on urban initiatives in conflict- and crisis-affected countries, specializing in urban planning, land, and housing issues. He globally focuses on migration, displacement, land and conflict and the humanitarian, development and peace nexus. He is Chair of the Global Alliance for Urban Crises. He has worked for UN-Habitat for more than twenty years in different capacities, including long-term assignments in Haiti, the occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, and Morocco. He also acted as coordinator for UN-Habitat’s Global Disaster Management Program. He was trained as a civil engineer, architect, and urban and regional planner with advanced master’s degrees from the Universities of Ghent and Leuven in Belgium.