EXPERT GROUP MEETING

POST-2015 MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

MODERATORS AND PARTICIPANTS

SHA ZUKANG – Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs

Sha Zukang became USG for Economic and Social Affairs on 1 July 2007. Prior to heading the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, he was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of China to the UN Office at Geneva. He has served the UN as Chairman of the Preparatory Committee and Chairman of the Committee of the Whole, Conference on Trade and Development 11th session (2003– 2004) and as member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (1994–1999). His postings in diplomatic missions have included , Colombo, New Delhi, New York and Geneva.

JOMO KWAME SUNDARAM – Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)

Jomo Kwame Sundaram has been ASG for Economic Development at DESA since January 2005. Prior to that appointment, he taught at Harvard, Yale, Science University of Malaysia, National University of Malaysia, University of Malaya and Cornell. He was the Founder-Director of the Institute of Social Analysis, Founder- Chair of IDEAs and has served on the Board of the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development (Geneva). Mr. Jomo has served as (Honorary) Research Coordinator for the G-24 Intergovernmental Group on International Monetary Affairs and Development since December 2006.

OLAV KJORVEN – Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Olav Kjorven has been ASG of the UNDP since February 2007. He is also Director of its Bureau for Development Policy. Prior to assuming his position at the United Nations, he served as the State Secretary for International Development for the Government of Norway. He was political advisor to the Minister of International Development and Human Rights (1992–2000) and worked as Environmental Specialist at the World Bank (1992 – 1997).

RICHARD JOLLY - Institute of Development Studies

Sir Richard is Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the , where he was Director in the 1970s. He is a Council member of the Overseas Development Institute and has been a Trustee of OXFAM, Chairman of the UN Association of the , and President of the British Association of Former UN Civil Servants. From 1982-1996, he held the following United Nations posts: Assistant Secretary General, serving as Deputy Executive Director responsible for worldwide UNICEF programmes; senior adviser to the UNDP Administrator and coordinator of the widely-acclaimed Human Development Report (1996-2000). Since leaving the UN, he has been working on a multi-volume intellectual history of UN contributions to ideas and policy in the economic and social arena published as UN Ideas That Changed the World (see www.unhistory.org ). He was knighted by the Queen in 2001 for his services to international development.

ROB VOS - UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)

Rob Vos joined the United Nations in 2005 as Director of Development Policy and Analysis Division, DESA heading the main economic development research division of the UN Secretariat and responsible for two of its flagship publications: The World Economic Situation and Prospects and The World Economic and Social Survey . He heads the Secretariat of the UN Committee for Development Policy and is Coordinator of the Secretary-General’s MDG Gap Task Force. Before joining the UN, he was Professor of Finance and Development, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague; Professor of Development , Free University Amsterdam; and Deputy Rector, ISS (1999–2002). As a senior economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, he co-founded the Inter-American Institute for Social Development (INDES) and initiated the programme on improving surveys of living conditions in Latin America (MECOVI). He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in and outside Europe and has worked as a policy advisor and consultant to governments in Latin America, Africa and Asia. His academic and advisory work and publications cover a broad range of development issues, including trade policy, inequality and poverty; financing for development; poverty and social policy analysis; and macroeconomic and general equilibrium modeling for development policy.

AMR NOUR – UN Regional Commissions Office, (UNRCO) New York

Mr. Nour is currently Director of the UNRCO in New York responsible for providing strategic policy advice on a broad array of development issues on the global agenda with a bearing on the Regional Commission’s programme of work, and also leading inter-regional coordination and collaboration efforts among the Commissions. He was formerly a research and evaluation officer at the United Nations conducting in-depth programmatic audits, including system-wide technical cooperation efforts in the field, in addition to management evaluations focusing on results-based management and reform of budgetary processes in the UN system. Prior to joining the UN, Mr. Nour worked for the Egyptian Government on foreign policy. Among others, his portfolio included the political economy of energy, trade-related issues and negotiations, as well as the sustainable development agenda. In that capacity, he participated in the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio and other multilateral global conferences. He represented his government in a number of ECOSOC functional commissions and was elected Vice-Chair of the UN Committee for Programme and Coordination (CPC), and

2 provided detailed coverage on political issues, including those in the Security Council. He carries a Master’s degree in from Syracuse University, USA, a Master’s in Political Science from the University of Paris I /Sorbonne, and law and engineering degrees from Cairo University.

SELIM JAHAN, UN Development Programme (UNDP)

Dr. Jahan has been Director of Poverty Practice, UNDP, since September 2007. Prior UNDP appointments were Cluster Leader, Strategies and Policies for Poverty Reduction (2006) and Senior Adviser, Employment for Poverty Reduction (2001- 2006) in the Poverty Group, Bureau for Development Policy (BDP), UNDP. He served as Deputy Director, Human Development Report Office (HDRO) and was Core Team member that authored nine global Human Development Reports (1993- 2001). Before joining UNDP in 1992, Dr. Jahan was Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Research Unit, University of Dhaka (1984-92); Economic Adviser, Planning Commission, Government of Bangladesh (1989-90); Visiting Scholar, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, USA (1992); and Lecturer, Department of Economics, McGill University, Montreal (1983-84). He has worked as Adviser and Consultant to various international organizations, including ILO, UNDP, UNESCO, and the World Bank (1980s–early 1990s). Dr. Jahan holds a Ph.D. in Economics from McGill University and has published widely in various national and international academic journals on such issues as modeling for MDG-based national development strategies, inclusive growth and inequality, employment for poverty reduction and economic governance.

MOHAMED TAAMOUTI - Morocco

Mohamed Taamouti has been Director of Statistics in Morocco since 2008. He graduated in statistics from the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics in Morocco and holds a Ph.D. in econometrics from the University of Montreal. Prior to joining the Statistical Office, he was a professor of economics. As a researcher, he has published many papers in scientific journals, including Econometrica and Journal of Econometrics. He was a member of the Canadian Economics Association and has worked as a consultant for many national and international institutions, including FAO, UNDP, UNIDO and the World Bank.

PHILIP ALSTON – New York University (NYU)

Throughout his career Philip Alston has strongly focused on children’s rights and international human rights and their link to international development. Having received his Doctor of Law from the University of California at Berkeley, he was appointed John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at NYU in 2005. He has held several UN posts, such as Human Rights Officer at the United Nations Centre for Human Rights and, at a later stage, Special Rapporteur of the Centre, as well as Senior Legal Adviser on Children’s Rights at UNICEF. He also served as Special

3 Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Millennium Development Goals.

JOSÉ ANTONIO OCAMPO – Colombia University

Professor Ocampo is Director, Economic and Political Development Program, School of International and Public Affairs and of the Committee on Global Thought at . Posts at the United Nations and in his native Colombia have included USG for Economic and Social Affairs; Executive Secretary,UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); and Minister of Finance, Colombia. Among other distinctions, he is the recipient of the 2008 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought and the 1988 Alejandro Angel Escobar National Science Award of Colombia. He has published extensively on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic and social development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history. His latest books are Growth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach , with Lance Taylor and Codrina Rada (2009), Time for a Visible Hand: Lessons from the 2008 World Financial Crisis , Stephany Griffith-Jones and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds. (2010), and The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics (2011), Jaime Ros, ed.. He holds a BA in Economics and Sociology from University of Notre Dame and Ph.D. in Economics from .

DEEPAK NAYYAR – Jawaharlal Nehru University

Deepak Nayyar is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, New York. Earlier, he taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi (2000–2005), and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Secretary in the Ministry of Finance (1989–1991). He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford where he obtained a Ph.D. in Economics. He is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His research interests are primarily international economics, and and he has published on a wide range of subjects, including trade policies, industrialization strategies, macroeconomic stabilization, structural adjustment, economic liberalization, trade theory, macro policies, international migration and the multilateral trading system.

4 MIGUEL SZÉKELY – Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

Dr. Székely is Director of the Institute for Innovation in Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey. He has served his government in the following capacities: Under Secretary for Middle Education under the Felipe Calderon Administration (2006- January 2010); Under Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Ministry of Social Development, under the V. Fox Administration (2002-2006); and Chief of Regional Development, Office of the President of Mexico (2001). He has done economics research at the Inter American Development Bank (1996-2001) and the Economics Department at El Colegio de México (1989 and 1993). He has a Ph.D. in Economics and a Master’s in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford, as well as a Master’s in Public Policy and a BA in Economics from ITAM, Mexico. He has lectured on Development Economics for Latin America at El Colegio de México, ITAM, and at the University of Oxford. A specialist in education and social policy for Mexico and Latin America, he has researched widely on issues of inequality, poverty and education and published extensively in academic journals.

BINAYAK SEN – Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)

Binayak Sen is Research Director, BIDS. He holds an MA in Economics from the Moscow (Lomonosov) State University (1982) and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (1985). As a Senior Economist with the World Bank (2004-2009), his work centered on development problems in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. He has been a Member of the Panel of Economists of the Sixth 5-Year Plan of Bangladesh (2010-11), Member of the Public Expenditure Review Commission (2002-04), Lead Consultant for the preparation of the Interim PRSP (2001-03), author of The Bangladesh Human Development Report (2001) and Bangladesh Chronic Poverty Report (2006) and Associate Editor of The Bangladesh Development Studies Journal —the leading journal on development economics in Bangladesh. Major areas of research and writing include chronic poverty, income inequality, human development, inclusive growth, social protection, and political economy of development. He is the recipient of the 2011 Mercantile Bank Bangladesh award in the field of development for his contribution to research on the development problems of Bangladesh.

RICHARD MORGAN – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Richard Morgan is Director of Policy at UNICEF, responsible for organizational standards and practice in the areas of gender, children's rights, child and youth participation and communication for development. He also leads UNICEF's work on child statistics and advocacy for child-focused social and economic policies. Earlier, he worked in Africa for more than two decades as a development planner, rural development specialist, social sector advisor and humanitarian programme manager. He was a civil servant with the Government of Botswana at central and local government levels, before joining UNICEF. He has a BA in Economics, Politics and

5 Philosophy from Oxford University and a Master’s degree in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia.

ROLPH VAN DER HOEVEN – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

Rolph van der Hoeven is Professor of Employment and Development Economics at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University (EUR) in The Hague and member of the Committee on Development Cooperation of the Dutch Government. He serves on the board of a number of international institutions and journals. He has been Director of ILO’s Policy Coherence Group and Manager of the Technical Secretariat of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization in Geneva. His other posts have included Chief Economist (UNICEF, New York) and policy analyst (ILO in Ethiopia and Zambia). He holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics from the Free University and a M.Sc. in Econometrics from the Municipal University, both in Amsterdam. His work concentrates on employment, inequality and economic reform issues, and focuses mainly on problems related to basic needs, structural adjustment, and globalization and poverty alleviation on which he has widely published.

VUSI GUMEDE – University of Johannesburg

Professor Gumede is an associate professor of development studies at the University of Johannesburg. Earlier, he worked for the South African government in various capacities for nearly 12 years. He is also an editor for The Journal of African Studies and Development , a lecturer on public policy at the Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of Witwatersrand, and serves in numerous organizations. He has post-graduate qualifications in economics and policy studies, including a Ph.D. in Economics (2003). He researches and publishes on macroeconomics, human development, public policy, developmental state and political economy.

CARLA ABOUZAHR – World Health Organization – WHO (formerly)

Ms. Abouzahr worked at WHO in Geneva for over 20 years until her retirement in mid 2010, where she was Coordinator for Statistics, Monitoring and Analysis and responsible for its annual flagship publication, World Health Statistics, among others. She developed the WHO Global Health Observatory, an initiative designed to promote the application of quality standards for health indicators and metadata across the Organization. She led the start-up phase of the Health Metrics Network (HMN), a global partnership to strengthen health information systems in countries. Her many years of experience in health-related monitoring and evaluation were focused on the challenges of tracking maternal mortality, on which she has written widely. She has also been involved in programme evaluation and in enhancing country monitoring and evaluation capacities, with particular attention to strengthening civil registration and vital statistics systems. She has represented WHO at numerous international meetings, including the UN Statistical Commission and the interagency and expert group on

6 MDG monitoring. Her academic qualifications in statistics and social sciences are from the London School of Economics and Political Science and in health systems management and public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Since retirement, Carla has provided consultancy support to UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Queensland in Australia.

JAN PRONK - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

Jan Pronk is currently a professor of Theory and Practice of International Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (The Hague). Prior appointments have included Ministerial posts with the Dutch government and a three- time Member of Parliament. His political career encompasses such posts as Minister for Development Cooperation and Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and Education. In addition to his work at the national level, he served as Deputy Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (Geneva) and as Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (Sudan). Since 2008, he is President of the Society for International Development based in Rome.

PAULA CABALLERO – Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombia

Paula Caballero is Director of Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia and a renowned international expert in the area of environment. Her earlier work included UNDP Regional Technical Adviser in the Energy and Environment Group (EEG-BDP); Assistant Executive Director and Senior Policy Advisor for the Advisory Committee on Protection of the Sea (ACOPS) in the United Kingdom; and Academic Director in the area of environment for the Law Department at the 'Universidad de los Andes'. She is a recognized lead international negotiator in climate change, sustainable development and multilateral environmental agreements in general. Ms. Caballero holds a BA from Brown University, USA and a Master's degree in International Relations from the 'Universidad Javeriana'.

GEORGIOS KOSTAKOS – Global Sustainability (GSP)

Mr. Kostakos holds an MA and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) and a Mechanical Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens (Greece). Since late 2010, he has done extensive work in climate change for the UN, in senior advisory roles on the Secretary- General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP) and the Climate Change Support Team (CCST), and on the Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB). Earlier, he was part of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat; the Strategic Planning Unit of the Executive Office of the Secretary-General; the Department of Safety and Security; the Department of Political Affairs; and on UN field missions in South Africa, Mexico, Haiti and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Outside the UN, he has been an associate of the Hellenic Foundation

7 for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and the University of Athens. Either as a practitioner or academic, he has been dealing with issues of global sustainability, climate change, UN system coordination, UN reform and policy planning, political affairs, conflict resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding.

HOMI KHARAS – Brookings Institution

Homi Kharas is a Senior Fellow and Deputy Director in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution (Washington D.C.). He was formerly Chief Economist for the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific region and Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, responsible for the Bank’s advice on structural and economic policies, fiscal issues, debt, trade, governance and financial markets. He has recently served as a Non-Resident Fellow of the OECD Development Center and a member of the National Economic Advisory Council to the Malaysian Prime Minister. He was a member of the Working Group for the Commission on Growth and Development, chaired by Professor A. Michael Spence. He was a Senior Partner with Jeff Sachs and Associates, advising governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on transition (1990–91). His research interests center on global trends and the middle class, East Asian growth and development, and international aid for the poorest countries. He holds a Ph. D. in economics from Harvard University.

JAN VANDEMOORTELE - (former) UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator to Pakistan

Jan Vandemoortele was Director of the Poverty Group at UNDP, New York from 2001-05, where he was the co-architect of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), on which he has published widely. He served in various other capacities with the UN for over 30 years, both at headquarters and in the field – with UNICEF, UNDP, ILO and on loan to the World Bank. His last position was UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator to Pakistan. He left the organization in late 2008 and is now an independent researcher, writer and lecturer. He holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics and is a regular speaker at international conferences and universities. He is a Belgian citizen and member of various advisory groups, including those of the UN Secretary-General and the Dutch State Secretary for development cooperation.

JAROMIR CEKOTA – UN Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)

Mr. Cekota has a background in economics. His early professional experience included academic research and teaching in Canada. Prior to his move to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in 2003, he worked for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He was born in Prague in 1950.

8 FREDERICO NETO – United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (UN/ESCWA)

Federico Neto is Director of the Social Development Division of UN/ESCWA in Beirut. During 20 years service in the UN system, he has acquired broad working experience in the economic, social and environmental fields. Dr. Neto was previously Chief of the Urban Economy and Finance Branch at UN-HABITAT (Nairobi). He began his UN career at DESA in New York, covering several sustainable development issues, including water resource management and climate change. He was a member of the Secretariat of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and was responsible for several chapters of The World Economic and Social Survey . He is author of many articles in several areas of international development policy. Dr. Neto holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Master’s degree in Urban Economics from University College London.

GILLES ALFANDARI – World Bank

Gilles Alfandari is Senior Economist, International Policy and Partnerships Group, in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM) of the World Bank. His main role is to engage with UN economic agencies, G20, and APEC to coordinate World Bank collaboration on economic development issues. In previous World Bank assignments, he was Senior Country Economist for Burkina Faso, where he led a multi-sectoral report on growth, competitiveness and diversification; he helped redefine World Bank policies and instruments to engage earlier with Low Income Countries under Stress (LICUS), promoting budget support operations in fragile and post-conflict states and a better interaction between development, diplomacy and security practitioners; and contributed to implementing several billion dollars of debt relief under the Enhanced HIPC Initiative. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1999, he worked at the Institute of International Finance (IIF) where he covered EU accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe for member investment banks.

STEPHEN PURSEY – International Labour Organization (ILO)

Stephen Pursey is Director of the Policy Integration Department and Senior Adviser to the Director-General of the ILO. He has worked on issues such as international policy coherence, measuring decent work, the impact of globalization on poverty reduction and decent work, multinational enterprises and social policy, freedom of association and the right to bargain collectively, sustainable development and trade and investment issues. Most recently, he was a member of the senior team responsible for preparing the Global Jobs Pact adopted by the June 2009 International Labour Conference and subsequently for ILO contributions to the G20 process. He led the ILO team that organized the 2010 IMF/ILO Oslo Conference on The Challenges of Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion.

9 SARASWATHI MENON - UN Women

Saraswathi Menon is Director of the Policy Division of UN Women – the new UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women. She was formerly Director of the Evaluation Office, UNDP and the elected Chair of the UN Evaluations Group that brings together the heads of evaluation of all UN organizations. She was a member of the team of authors who wrote the first six Human Development Reports . Subsequent UNDP posts included Deputy Chief of the Regional Programme in the Regional Bureau of Asia and the Pacific; UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Nepal (1999-2000); and UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Mongolia (2000-2003). Prior to joining UNDP, she taught sociology in Madras University (India). She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) with a dissertation on caste and land control in Thanjavur district during the 19th century. Her interests lie in multi-dimensional issues of poverty.

CRAIG MOKHIBER - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Craig Mokhiber heads the Development and Economic and Social Issues Branch, OHCHR (Geneva). A lawyer and specialist in international human rights law, policy and methodology, he has served the UN in numerous capacities since 1992 as Chief, Human Rights and Development Team on early human rights-based approaches to development and sensitive poverty definitions; Deputy Director, New York Office, during UN human rights reform processes leading up to the World Summit and establishment of the Human Rights Council; and Chairman of the UN Task Force for Action Two and the UN Democracy Fund consultative group. As Senior UN Human Rights Advisor in both the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in Afghanistan, he led the team of human rights specialists attached to the High Level Mission on Darfur and has participated in human rights missions in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe. He has lectured, taught, and authored several publications on human rights themes. Before joining the UN, he was an NGO activist, human rights advocate, and lawyer in private practice.

HENK-JAN BRINKMAN – Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO)

Henk-Jan Brinkman has been Chief, Policy, Planning and Application Branch of PBSO of the UN Secretariat since June 2010. Previously, he held various posts in the World Food Programme in both Rome and New York. He was advisor to Secretary- General Kofi Annan and Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette on economic, social and environmental issues (2001–2006), and has worked in UN/DESA (1989- 2001). He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in economics from the University of Groningen () and a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research (New York). He has written on such topics as the socio-economic factors behind violent conflicts, the impact of high food prices on nutritional status, economic

10 adjustment in Africa and human stature as a measure of the standard of living. He is the lead author of WFP’s World Hunger Series – Hunger and Markets (Earthscan, 2009), and author of Explaining Prices in the Global Economy: A Post-Keynesian Model (Edward Elgar, 1999). He is a Dutch citizen.

HELENA MOLIN-VALDES – United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Ms. Molin Valdés has been Acting Director of UNISDR since April 2011 and Coordinator of the global Making Cities Resilient campaign. An architect by training, she joined the United Nations in 1992 and worked in Costa Rica heading up the only regional office then of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). Subsequently, she held high-level positions with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) (Washington, DC and Costa Rica) and UNISDR (Geneva). She led UNISDR's work towards the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg and was critical in supporting member states in the development of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. She was part of the joint UNISDR-World Bank team that set up the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery in 2006/2007. Before joining the UN, she headed a Swedish NGO that worked with development projects in Central America (Nicaragua-based), and worked in Sweden’s private sector.

JUAN ANTONIO CASAS-ZAMORA – International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Juan Antonio Casas-Zamora is Director of Programme Coordination and Support of the IAEA Technical Cooperation Department, having formerly served in the same department as Director of the Latin America Regional Division (January 2006 – July 2011). Mr. Casas is a national of Costa Rica and a medical doctor and public health specialist who was previously UNICEF country representative in Honduras and PAHO/WHO Country Representative in Belize, Guatemala and Panama as well as Human Health and Development Division Director in the PAHO/WHO Regional Office for the Americas. Prior to joining the IAEA, Mr. Casas was Deputy Liaison Officer to the European Union in the WHO Brussels office.

SUSANNA WOLF –

UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (OHRLLS)

Susanna Wolf is Senior Programme Officer, Office of the High Representative for LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS (OHRLLS) heading the LDC Unit, since 2009. Following a a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the Federal Armed Forces (Hamburg) in

11 1996, she became a research fellow at the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn where she researched European aid and trade relations as well as the role of Information and Computer Technology (ICT) for development. In 2003/2004, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Ghana conducting research on export and investment behavior of private enterprises. She was an Economic Affairs Officer at the Economic Commission for Africa (2004-2009) and contributed to various reports and research on public service delivery.

FRANCOIS FARAH – United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Francois Farah is UNFPA Representative for Romania and Country Director for FYR of Macedonia, Moldova and Serbia. He joined the UN in 1994 and held the following senior posts: Chief, Social Development Division, UN/ESCWA; Chief, UNFPA’s Population and Development Branch (New York); and UNFPA Representative for India, Pakistan and Uganda, and UNFPA Country Director for Cameroon, Bhutan and Afghanistan. Prior to that, Mr. Farah worked for six years with Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in different senior capacities. In Lebanon, he was an Associate Professor in several universities for eight years. Mr. Farah obtained his Doctorate in Social Demography at the French Sorbonne Rene-Descartes, Paris V (1979). He has written and published a number of studies, papers and articles on population, migrations, reproductive health, social policy, census and social surveys, gender, youth and community development. He was born in Lebanon and later became a naturalized Canadian citizen.

GARY FOWLIE – International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Gary Fowlie is head of the Liaison office of the ITU — the UN specialized agency for information and communication technology. Prior to joining the ITU in 2000, he worked for Microsoft and the global consulting firm of Hill and Knowlton. He was responsible for communications and member state relations for the UN World Summit on the Information Society and was Chief of Media Liaison at UN headquarters (2005–2009). Mr. Fowlie is a graduate of the universities of Alberta and Alabama and the London School of Economics and is an economist and journalist.

CHARLES KENNY – Center for Global Development (CDG)

Charles Kenny is a senior fellow at the CDG, covering topics centered on the next round of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the demand side of development, the role of technology in quality of life improvements, and governance and anti- corruption in aid. He has published articles, chapters and books on issues such as progress towards the MDGs, what we know of the causes of economic growth, the link between economic growth and broader development, the causes of improvements in global health, the link between economic growth and happiness, the end of the Malthusian trap, the role of communications technologies in development, the ‘digital divide,’ and corruption. He is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy journal and a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. Mr. Kenny was previously at the

12 World Bank, where he worked with the Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa Region, coordinating work on governance and anti-corruption in infrastructure and natural resources, and managing a number of investment and technical assistance projects focusing on telecommunications and the Internet.

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