Ulrika Modéer

Eva Maria Ulrika Modéer (born 2 October 1969) is a Swedish civil servant who was United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Director of the External Relations and Advocacy Bureau at the assistant secretary-general level from 2018 until 2024. She was a senior official in the system of the United Nations (UN), along with Åsa Regnér.

Education Modéer graduated from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, with a B.A. in international relations. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Göteborg's Faculty of Social Sciences in 2019.

Diplomatic career Modeer served as a United Nations Volunteer in Guatemala in the late 1990s, when the country had just emerged from Guatemalan Civil War and the signing of the Agreement on Firm and Lasting Peace. Later, she mostly worked with Caritas Sverige, Diakonia, and Sida on international development concerns between 1994 and 2014. She led a team in the Green Party's parliamentary organisation from 2011 to 2014, and from 2014 to 2018, she served as Isabella Lövin's state secretary in the Foreign Ministry under the Löfven administration. Prior to her appointment as Sweden's State Secretary for Climate Change and International Development Cooperation, she played a key role in transforming the nation's approach to international development cooperation in order to facilitate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.

On 20 August 2018, Modéer took up her position as the Assistant Administrator of the UNDP and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy.

In the presence of Shri B.L. Verma and Modéer, the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDoNER) and UNDP signed an MoU on 22 August 2023, under which UNDP would offer MDoNER technical support on accelerating progress toward the SDGs, monitoring, evaluation, and capacity building; supporting aspirational districts and blocks; and supporting the adoption of emerging technologies in governance and scaling up best practices.

Personal life Modéer was born on 2 October 1969, is married, and has three kids.