The UNIDO ITPO Heads Meeting took place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on 10th May 2023, notably at the presence of UNIDO Deputy Director General Fatou Haidara and ITPO Coordinator Weixi Gong, and attended by several Heads and representatives of UNIDO ITPOs across the globe - from ITPO Italy, Head Diana Battaggia, Chief Technical Advisor Dino Fortunato, and Investment Promotion Expert Andrea Carapellese.

The meeting was frutiful to develop strategies to advance investment and technology promotion as well as cross-institutional partnerships worldwide, towards the achievement of UNIDO's mandate of accelerating Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development through Progress by Innovation.