Delphine Schantz, a national of France, is the Regional Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Prior to her joining the Regional Office in Bangkok, she served as the Director of the UNODC Liaison Office in New York. In this capacity, she represented UNODC at intergovernmental and inter-agency meetings held at United Nations Headquarters in New York and promoted policy dialogue pertaining to UNODC mandates and strategies.

Until January 2021, she was Chief of the Africa Section, Senior Legal Officer and Coordinator for terrorist financing-related issues within the Counter Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED). This included being responsible for CTED’s policy response on the issue countering the financing of terrorism, as well as carrying out visit assessments of Member States’ counter terrorism frameworks on behalf of the Security Council Counter Terrorism Committee (CTC).

Before joining CTED in September 2011, Ms. Schantz was the Programme Manager of the Global Programme against Money Laundering, Proceeds of Crime and the Financing of Terrorism (GPML) of UNODC. In that capacity, she provided technical assistance to Member States of the United Nations in building effective anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) national systems as well as in reinforcing regional and international cooperation.

Ms. Schantz is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg and holds a master’s degree in international law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.