Former UNFPA Representative a.i. in Afghanistan, he started his collaboration with UNFPA in 1996, joining the organization in 1999 as Programme Officer in the Latin American and Caribbean Division at Headquarters, which included assignments to Guatemala and Haiti. In 2004, he took up the position of Deputy Director for the English- and Dutch-Speaking Caribbean, Jamaica. He subsequently assumed the UNFPA Representative positions in Bolivia, Egypt, Brazil, Ukraine (and Country Director for Belarus), leading the respective UNFPA teams and acting as UN Resident Coordinator (a.i.) in Bolivia between 2012 and 2013. Mr. Nadal brings more than 25 years of experience working as part of the UN system to advance the ICPD, the Agenda 2030, and responding to emergencies and humanitarian crises. Prior to joining UNFPA, he was in the private sector,  providing consulting services to private and public organizations on EU-sponsored regional development initiatives in Spain.