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Expert Group Meeting Post-2015 Millennium 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, United Nations 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 London, 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 University of Sussex, 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 United Kingdom, 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 Economics, 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 Public Administration 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 Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. 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
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