Petar Dimitrov
UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency, Associate Innovation Officer
Petar Dimitrov is an Associate Innovation Officer at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. He has about ten years of humanitarian experience supporting forcibly displaced communities, working in refugee camps and immigration detention centres and with trauma survivors. At UNHCR's Innovation Section, he leads a global initiative to harness the power of gaming to improve the lives of refugees. He says that in the humanitarian world he advocates for the power of games, while in the games industry he looks for ways to bring refugees into it. At Games Gathering 2025 in Kyiv, he gave the talk "How Can Gaming Help Refugees: A UNHCR Initiative".
