Dom Scalpelli

Dom Scalpelli has over 33 years of solid experience in operational management, leadership and fundraising, in both development and humanitarian settings. 

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Dom is currently Resident Representative for the United Nations World Food Programme in Bangladesh. He has been WFP Representative in Myanmar and Malawi; Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar; Founding Chair of the UN Nutrition Network in Myanmar; Director ad interim and Deputy Director of WFP Government Donor Relations in Rome; UN Resident Coordinator a.i. and FAO Representative a.i. for prolonged periods in Malawi; and in various roles in wartime and post-war Mozambique, in wartime Angola, in São Tomé e Príncipe, and Chief of Office in WFP’s Operations Department in Rome.

Dom has also served in various short-term senior positions in WFP, namely, WFP’s Coordinator for the UN Food Systems Summit; Director in the Resource Management Department; Country Director a.i. in Mozambique; and Director a.i. for WFP’s tsunami response in Japan. Before WFP, Dom worked for a couple of years in AIDAB (then Australia’s international development aid agency) in Canberra, Australia, and as a post-graduate tutor and supervisor at the University of Melbourne.

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Dom is an Australian national, born in Melbourne in 1966, and has dual Italian nationality through his parents, who both emigrated to Australia from Italy in the 1950s. He is married to Elizabeth Shick, American, and an award-winning author of “The Golden Land.” Together they have two daughters, Rebecca and Amanda, both born in Rome, Italy. Dom graduated from the University of Melbourne in Australia with a Master’s Degree in Engineering Science (Development Technologies) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering. He is fluent in Portuguese and Italian and has a working knowledge of French. Dom is an avid fan of world music, walking, volunteering part-time at the Martha’s Vineyard Food Pantry in the USA, and cooking, having learned to cook Italian food from a young age from his mother.