NAME Atefeh Riazi POSITION Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer ORGANIZATION United Nations New York City PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Prior to her appointment to the UN, Atefeh Riazi served as CIO for diverse organizations including Ogilvy & Mather, the global advertising agency, the New York City Housing Authority, and the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Her achievements at the MTA included replacing the token system with the MetroCard payment method. She was a finalist for the 2018 MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award. EDUCATION BA (Electrical Engineering), State University of New York, at Stony Brook.