The following senior staff appointment was announced on 23 December 2016, by then Secretary-General-designate, António Guterres:
I am pleased to announce that I will be appointing Mr. Fabrizio Hochschild of Chile as my Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination in the Executive Office.
Reporting to the Chef de Cabinet, Mr. Hochschild will work closely with other members of my team to support me in ensuring coherence across the political, peacekeeping, development, humanitarian, human rights and rule of law portfolios.
Mr. Fabrizio Hochschild is currently serving as Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), to which post he was appointed in July 2016. He previously served as Deputy to the Secretary-General's Special Adviser for the Summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants.  From 2013 to 2016, he was the UN Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Colombia. From 2010 to 2012, he served as the Director of the Field Personnel Division in the United Nations Department of Field Support, New York; and from 2005 to 2009, as Chief of Field Operations and Technical Cooperation in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva.
Mr. Hochschild began his United Nations career in 1988 with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Sudan.  He served in subsequent postings with UNHCR, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and in peacekeeping.  He was posted in Jerusalem (1990-1991), in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1991-1992), in Geneva (1993-1996), in New York (1998-1999), in Timor-Leste (2000), in Serbia (2001-2003) and in the United Republic of Tanzania (2003-2005).
Born in 1963, he is married and has three children. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford in the UK.