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                Economic and Social Council                                      Distr.: General
                                                                                 6 October 2021

                                                                                 Original: English

2022 session
23 July 2021–22 July 2022
Agenda item 4
Elections, nominations, confirmations and appointments

                Appointment of 24 members of the Committee for
                Development Policy
                Note by the Secretary-General

                1.    In accordance with Economic and Social Council resolutions 1998/46 and
                1998/47, the Secretary-General has the honour to nominate 24 experts, whose names
                and titles are listed below, for appointment, in their personal capacity, as members of
                the Committee for Development Policy for a three-year term beginning on 1 January
                2022 and expiring on 31 December 2024 (see annex I).
                2.   In making these nominations, the Secretary-General has taken into account the
                Committee’s need to have a diversity of development experience, comprising
                ecologists, economists and social scientists, as well as geographical balance, gender
                balance and a balance between continuity and change in the membership of the
                Committee. Biographical information on the persons nominated is set out in annex II.

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Annex I
                 Nominees for appointment to the Committee for
                 Development Policy

                 Adriana Abdenur (Brazil),* Professor at the Institute of International Relations at
                 the Pontifical Catholic University
                 Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan (Kenya), Social Entrepreneur and Founder of the Horn
                 of Africa Development Initiative
                 Sabina Alkire (United States of America), Director of the Oxford Poverty and
                 Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford
                 Debapriya Bhattacharya (Bangladesh),* Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for
                 Policy Dialogue
                 Sofia Borges (Timor-Leste), Senior Vice President and Head of the New York
                 Office of the United Nations Foundation
                 Ha-Joon Chang (Republic of Korea),* Professor, Faculty of Economics, and
                 Professor, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge
                 Stefan Dercon (Belgium), Professor of Economic Policy, and Director of the
                 Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
                 Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (Japan),* Professor of International Affairs, The New School
                 Ahmed Galal (Egypt), Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Middle East and North
                 Africa Health Policy Forum
                 Arunabha Ghosh (India),* Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Council on
                 Energy, Environment and Water
                 Trudi Hartzenberg (South Africa),* Executive Director of the Trade Law Centre
                 Anne-Laure Kiechel (France), Founder of Global Sovereign Advisory
                 Carlos Lopes (Guinea-Bissau), Professor in the Nelson Mandela School of Public
                 Governance at the University of Cape Town, visiting professor a t Sciences Po,
                 Paris, and associate fellow in the Africa Programme and Chatham House
                 Amina Mama (Nigeria),* Chair of the Department of Gender, Sexuality and
                 Women’s Studies at the University of California, Davis, Director of the Feminist
                 Research Institute, and Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
                 Jacqueline Musiitwa (Zambia),* Founder and Managing Partner of Hoja Law
                 Group
                 Keith Nurse (Trinidad and Tobago),* Principal/President, Sir Arthur Lewis
                 Community College, Saint Lucia
                 José Antonio Ocampo Gaviria (Colombia),* Professor at the School of
                 International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, United States of America
                 Annalisa Prizzon (Italy), Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute
                 Liliana Rojas-Suarez (Peru), Director, Latin America Initiative, and Senior
                 Fellow, Center for Global Development

             * Nominated for re-appointment as a member of the Committee.

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           Taffere Tesfachew (Ethiopia),* Senior Advisor, Tony Blair Institute for Global
           Change and former Director, Division for Africa, Least Developed Countries and
           Special Programmes at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
           Kori Udovicki (Serbia),* Head of the Center for Advanced Economic Studies
           Rolph van der Hoeven (Netherlands),* Professor of Employment and
           Development Economics at the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus
           University, The Hague
           Natalya Volchkova (Russian Federation),* Senior Lecturer, New Economic
           School; Vice-Rector, Russian Foreign Trade Academy
           Xufeng Zhu (China), Professor and Executive Associate Dean of the School of
           Public Policy and Management, and Executive Director of the Institute for
           Sustainable Development Goals, Tsinghua University.

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Annex II
                 Biographical information on the nominees for appointment to the
                 Committee for Development Policy **

                 Adriana Abdenur (Brazil)
                 Researcher and policy expert at Instituto Igarapé, in Rio de Janeiro, where she
                 coordinates the Peacebuilding Division and leads Conflict Prevention and Resolution
                 initiatives in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Founding coordinator of the
                 BRICS Policy Center. Served as a Fulbright Scholar and fellow of the India China
                 Institute. Taught development and international affairs at the New School University,
                 Columbia University, and Fundação Getúlio Vargas. She also worked as a policy
                 consultant for numerous United Nations organizations, as well as the World Bank and
                 the Inter-American Development Bank. She has published widely on South-South
                 cooperation, the BRICS and global governance, and the nexus between development
                 and security. She holds an MA and Ph.D. in Sociology (International D evelopment)
                 from Princeton University.

                 Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan (Kenya)
                 Founder of the Horn of Africa Development Initiative (HODI), a non -profit that is
                 part of the GlobalGiving community. Founded in 2003, HODI works to foster peace
                 and education in northern Kenya. Born to parents from warring tribes in Marsabit,
                 Kenya, Fatuma has a deep commitment to peace. She is a lawyer, and the recipient of
                 the Stuttgart Peace Prize. She holds a Degree in Bachelor of Laws from Moi
                 University in Kenya.

                 Sabina Alkire (United States of America)
                 Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), an
                 economic research centre within the Oxford Department of International
                 Development at the University of Oxford, England, which was established in 2007.
                 She is a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association. She has
                 worked with organizations such as the Commission on the Measurement of Economic
                 Performance and Social Progress, the United Nations Development Programme
                 Human Development Report Office, the European Commission and the United
                 Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Department for International
                 Development. Alkire and fellow OPHI Research Associate James Foster developed
                 the Alkire-Foster Method, a widely used method of measuring multidimensional
                 poverty. She holds a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.

                 Debapriya Bhattacharya (Bangladesh)
                 Macro-economist and public policy analyst. Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for
                 Policy Dialogue (CPD), a think-tank in Bangladesh, a Non-Resident Fellow at the
                 Center for Global Development (CGD). Former Ambassador and Permanent
                 Representative of Bangladesh to the World Trade Organization (WTO), United
                 Nations office, and other international organizations in Geneva and Vienna (2007–
                 2009) and concurrently accredited to the Holy See in the Vatican. As Ambassador and
                 Permanent Representative of Bangladesh, he led the delegation to various forums on
                 the WTO Doha Round. Other former positions include serving as Pr esident of the
                 UNCTAD governing board as well as the coordinator of the LDC Group in the United
                 Nations System in Geneva and Special Adviser on LDCs to the Secretary -General,
                 Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), and Senior Research
            ** The present annex is being issued without formal editing.

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           Fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). Senior Fulbright
           Fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD), Washington, D.C. Held a
           number of visiting positions including in UN U-INTECH (Maastricht), the University
           of Manchester and the Institute of Developing Economics (IDE) (Tokyo) and was an
           Associate Fellow at the Asia Society, New York. Holds an MSc (Economics) with
           distinction and PhD (Economics) from the Plekhanov Institute of National Economy,
           Moscow. He undertook his post-doctoral research at Queen Elizabeth House, in
           Oxford.

           Sofia Borges (Timor-Leste)
           UN Foundation’s Senior Vice President and Head of the New York Office. Prior to
           joining the UN Foundation, she held the position of Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the
           President of the seventy-second session of the United Nations General Assembly and
           served in the Cabinet of the President of the seventy-first session of the United
           Nations General Assembly as Special Adviser on Strategic Engagement and
           Transparency. She also held various positions at the Permanent Mission of Timor -
           Leste to the United Nations, including six years as Ambassador and Permanent
           Representative. She represented Timor-Leste through a critical peacekeeping to
           peacebuilding period, including its removal from the agenda of the United Nations
           Security Council. She holds degrees in Anthropology, Political Science, and Law
           from the Australian National University, Canberra, and Northern Territory University,
           Darwin.

           Ha-Joon Chang (South Korea)
           Former Assistant Director of Development Studies, Faculty of Economics and
           Politics, University of Cambridge. Project Leader on “Industrial Organisation and
           Industrial Policy”, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centre for
           Business Research, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge.
           Project Coordinator on “Development of East and South-East Asia and a New
           Development Strategy – Role of the Government”, United Nations Conference on
           Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Project Director on “Institutions and Economic
           Development – Theory, History, and Contemporary Experiences”, World Institute for
           Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). Professorial Research Associate,
           School of Oriental and African Studies, University of Londo n. Visiting Professor at
           various universities, and consultant to United Nations and multilateral financial
           organizations. He holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Economics and Politics,
           University of Cambridge.

           Stefan Dercon (Belgium)
           Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the
           Economics Department, and a Fellow of Jesus College. He is also Director of the
           Centre for the Study of African Economies and is the Development Policy Advisor to
           the Foreign Secretary at the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
           Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Between 2011 and 2017, he was
           Chief Economist of the Department of International Development (DFID), providing
           strategic advice, and responsible for ensuring the use of evidence in decision-making.
           Before joining the University of Oxford, he held positions at the University of Addis
           Ababa (Ethiopia), the Catholic University of Leuven, and WIDER (Helsinki), part of
           the United Nations University. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of
           Oxford.

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                 Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (Japan)
                 Professor of International Affairs, The New School. Development economist
                 specializing in human development, human rights and the political economy of
                 development. Her co-authored book Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (with
                 T. Lawson-Remer and S. Randolph) received the Grawemeyer Prize for Changing
                 World Order in Human Rights Scholarship from the American Political Science
                 Association. Other recent publications include: Millennium Development Goals:
                 Ideas, Interests, Influence (2017); Human Rights and the Capability Approach: An
                 Interdisciplinary Conversation (ed. with P. Vizard and D. Elson). Currently Chair of
                 the University of Oslo Panel on Global Governance for Health. She served on the
                 Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines and Innovation and the
                 Lancet Commission on Global Governance for Health. She was lead author and
                 Director of the UNDP Human Development Reports from 1995 to 2004.

                 Ahmed Galal (Egypt)
                 Former Minister of Finance in Egypt (2013-2014). He currently chairs the Board of
                 Trustees of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Health Policy Forum and is an
                 active board member of several local, regional and international non -governmental
                 organizations (NGOs). Until December 2016, he was the managing director, for
                 10 years, of the Economic Research Forum. Before that, he worked for the World
                 Bank for 18 years, conducting research and providing policy advice to Governments
                 of several countries around the world. He also served as Executive Director and
                 Director of Research of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES). He
                 authored and co-authored more than a dozen books, including on the Middle East,
                 and holds a PhD in economics from Boston University.

                 Arunabha Ghosh (India)
                 Public policy professional, adviser, author, columnist, and institution builder. As the
                 founder-Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water
                 (CEEW), he has led CEEW to the top ranks as one of Asia’s leading policy research
                 institutions and among the world’s 20 best climate think tanks. He is the Co -Chair of
                 the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Clean Air and is a member
                 of the international high-level panel of the Environment of Peace initiative. He was
                 actively involved in conceptualizing and designing the International Solar Alliance
                 and is a founding board member of the Clean Energy Access Network. Arunabha
                 advises governments, industry, civil society and international organizations around
                 the world. In 2015, he was invited by France, as a personnalité d’avenir, to advise on
                 the COP21 climate negotiations; and advised extensively on hydrofluorocarbons
                 (HFC) negotiations for the Kigali Amendment. In 2018, Dr. Ghosh was nominated to
                 the UN’s Committee for Development Policy. In 2020, the Government of India
                 appointed him as the Co-Chair of the energy, environment and climate change track
                 for India’s forthcoming Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP202 0). His
                 monthly columns are widely read, he is regularly interviewed on national and
                 international television, and has hosted or featured in documentaries on water, energy
                 and climate change. His 2019 TED Talk on air quality (Mission 80-80-80) has crossed
                 over 240,000 views. He is the co-author/editor of four books, dozens of papers, and
                 with experience in 45 countries, he previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, UNDP
                 (New York) and WTO (Geneva). He holds a D.Phil. from Oxford and topped
                 Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

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           Trudi Hartzenberg (South Africa)
           Executive Director the Trade Law Centre (TRALAC), which focuses on building
           policy and institutional capacity in Africa to enhance trade policy and governance.
           She is an economist working in the areas of trade and industrial policy, regional
           integration, competition policy and investment. Taught economics at the University
           of Natal in South Africa, and at the University of Cape Town. She has published in
           the areas of international trade, regional integration, investment, industrial policy and
           competition law and policy, and small business development, and has worked as a
           consultant with regional and multilateral institutions such as the International
           Monetary Fund, World Bank, African Development Bank, World Trade Organization,
           SADC, SACU and the Africa Economic Research Consortium. She has worked
           extensively with governments in the field of competition law and policy and as a
           consultant to law firms and private companies. She has been engaged to conduct a ten
           and fifteen-year review of South Africa’s competition policy. She holds a Master’s in
           Economics from the University of Natal, South Africa. She currently serves on the
           World Trade Organization Chairs Advisory Board.

           Anne-Laure Kiechel (France)
           Founder of Global Head of Global Sovereign Advisory (GSA), an independent entity
           providing holistic advice to States and State-owned enterprises on public policy and
           financial matters. GSA currently advises more than twenty countries around the wor ld
           on strategic matters including macro-fiscal framework/policy mix, economic strategy,
           public sector perimeter and financing strategy/debt restructurings, as well as reform
           design/implementation/evaluation. GSA is an entreprise à mission (equivalent to
           B-Corp under French law) since 2020. Anne-Laure has more than 20 years of
           experience in Debt Capital Markets and Sovereign Advisory at both government and
           state-owned enterprise level. She served as Advisor to the Greek Prime Minister
           Alexis Tsipras (2016–2019). She graduated from HEC and Sankt-Gallen and holds a
           degree in Mathematics.

           Carlos Lopes (Guinea-Bissau)
           Professor in the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of
           Cape Town, visiting professor at Sciences Po, Paris and associate fellow in the Africa
           Programme and Chatham House. He has occupied several leadership positions across
           the United Nations system, including policy director for Secretary -General Kofi
           Annan and executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commissio n for
           Africa. He has authored or edited more than 20 books and feature articles in Project
           Syndicate, CNN, Le Monde, Financial Times, China Daily, The Guardian, New
           African and Jeune Afrique. He is a member of the African Union reform team led by
           President of Rwanda Paul Kagame and doubles as the organization High
           Representative for Partnerships with Europe as well as a member of the Global
           Commission for Economy and Climate, African Academy of Sciences and Lisbon
           Academy of Sciences and the Boards of the African Leadership Institute and Geneva
           Graduate Institute. He took a PhD in history from the Panthéon -Sorbonne University
           in Paris and has a research master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of
           International and Development Studies in Geneva. He has hon orary doctorates from
           Hawassa University in Ethiopia, Universidade Cândido Mendes in Rio de Janeiro,
           Brazil, and Politecnica University in Maputo, Mozambique.

           Amina Mama (Nigeria)
           Chair of the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the University
           of California, Davis, Director of the Feminist Research Institute, and Professor of

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                 Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, USA. Previous positions include board of
                 directors of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.
                 Researcher and scholar, she has lived and worked in Nigeria, South Africa, the United
                 Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United
                 States of America. She spent 10 years (1999–2009) leading the establishment of the
                 University of Cape Town’s African Gender Institute as a continental resource
                 dedicated to developing transformative scholarship bringing feminist theory and
                 activism together. She published widely and is the founding editor of the continental
                 journal of gender studies “Feminist Africa”. Committed to strengthening activism and
                 activist research in African contexts, her research interests include culture and
                 subjectivity, politics and policy, women’s movements, and militarism. She holds a
                 Doctor of Philosophy in Occupation and Applied Psychology from Birkbeck College,
                 University of London.

                 Jacqueline Musiitwa (Zambia)
                 Trade and investment attorney with over 16 years’ experience. She founded Hoja Law
                 Group, a legal consultancy that represents Governments in improving the business
                 enabling environment and clients interested in expanding across Africa. She
                 previously served in various leadership capacities including as Chief Advisor of
                 Corporate Relations for Africa and Venture at Rio Tinto, Executive Director of
                 Financial Sector Deepening Uganda, Legal Counsel and Assistant to the Chief
                 Executive Officer of the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank
                 (TDB Group), Advisor to the Director-General of the World Trade Organization,
                 Chief Legal and Investor Relations at Baobab. Jacqueline has been an Adjunct
                 Professor of Law at universities in the United States of America and Rwanda and
                 spends her spare time researching China’s compliance with international law as a
                 Research Associate at the China Law Development Project at Oxford University. She
                 is a thought leader on technology and ethics, international development and corporate
                 governance and has been published in the Financial Times, Project Syndicate and
                 other publications. She is personally involved in various initiatives focused on
                 COVID-19 resilience and recovery, promoting mentoring and access to quality
                 education and entrepreneurship. She sits on the boards of IDEO.org and International
                 Rescue Committee UK and previously sat on the boards of Bank of Zambia, Prime
                 Insurance (Rwanda) and Microcred Zimbabwe.

                 Keith Nurse (Trinidad and Tobago)
                 Principal/President of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in Saint Lucia. He
                 has recently worked as Senior Economist and Advisor on Structural Policies and
                 Innovation at the OECD Development Centre in Paris. He has worked also at the
                 University of the West Indies as the World Trade Organization Chair. He serves on
                 the Bureau of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy. He serves also
                 as a member of the Hemispheric Programme Advisory Committee of the
                 Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture. He is a former member of
                 the Economic Development Advisory Board, Government of the Republic of Trinidad
                 and Tobago. Dr. Nurse has worked as a researcher and consultant to governments and
                 international and regional organizations around the world and has published on a wide
                 array of issue areas such as trade policy and services, industrial policy and innovation
                 governance, creative industries, tourism, migration and diasporas, gender and
                 economic restructuring, climate action and sustainable development.

                 José Antonio Ocampo Gaviria (Colombia)
                 Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs and director of the
                 Economic and Political Development Concentration. He is also co-President of the

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           Initiative for Policy Dialogue and Member of the Committee on Global Thought at
           Columbia University. He has occupied numerous positions at the United Nations and
           in his native Colombia, including United Nations Under-Secretary-General for
           Economic and Social Affairs, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic
           Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Minister of Finance,
           Minister of Agriculture and Director of the National Planning Office of Colombia, as
           well as Member of the Board of Banco de la República, Colombia’s central bank. In
           2015–2016, he was also the head of Colombia’s Rural Development Commission. He
           has received numerous academic distinctions, including the 2012 Jaume Vicens Vives
           award of the Spanish Association of Economic History for the best book on Spanish
           or Latin American economic history, the 2008 Leontief Prize for Advancing the
           Frontiers of Economic Thought and the 1988 Alejandro Ángel Escobar Nati onal
           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.

           Annalisa Prizzon (Italy)
           Senior Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a global affairs
           think tank. She has extensively researched and published on the architecture of
           development cooperation, external debt, development finance and multilateral
           development banks in peer-reviewed journals, edited books and research reports. She
           regularly advises strategy departments in bilateral development agencies and
           multilateral development banks in these areas. She worked in several countries in
           Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, the Pacific and Latin America. Before joining
           ODI, she was an economist and policy analyst in academic institutions and
           international organizations (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
           (OECD) Development Centre and World Bank Group). She is a Council member of
           the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Development Study
           Association (DSA) and was a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future
           Council on Infrastructure. She holds a PhD in Economics and Publ ic Finance from
           the University of Pavia, Italy, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Notre
           Dame, United States of America.

           Liliana Rojas-Suarez (Peru)
           Director of the Latin America Initiative and a senior fellow at the Center for Global
           Development with expertise on Latin America, financial regulation, digital financial
           inclusion, Basel II and III, and the development impact of global financial flows. She
           also chairs the Latin American Committee on Macroeconomic and Financial Issues
           (CLAAF) and is Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs
           at Columbia University, New York. From March 1998 to October 2000, she served as
           managing director and chief economist for Latin America at Deutsche Bank. Before
           joining Deutsche Bank, Rojas-Suarez was the principal advisor in the Office of Chief
           Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. Between 1984 and 1994 she
           held various positions at the International Monetary Fund, most recently as deputy
           chief of the Capital Markets and Financial Studies Division of the Research
           Department. She has published widely in the areas of macroeconomic policy,
           international economics and financial markets in a large number of academic and
           other journals. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Western Ontario.

           Taffere Tesfachew (Ethiopia)
           Senior Advisor to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI). He is a former
           Director of the Division for Africa, Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Special
           Programmes at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

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                 (UNCTAD). In this capacity, he managed the work of UNCTAD on Africa and least
                 developed countries (LDCs) and was responsible for preparation of two major annual
                 reports published by UNCTAD, namely, the Economic Development in Africa Report
                 and the Least Developed Countries Report. He has over 30 years of work experience
                 in national and international development issues, particularly trade and development
                 and the related areas of investment, industrial policy, technology, enterprise
                 development and regional integration. He holds a BA and MA degree in Economics
                 from the University of Lancaster, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
                 Ireland, and an MPhil and a PhD in Economics from the Institute of Developm ent
                 Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He has published on a range of
                 topics, including: “Technological Learning and Industrialization in Ethiopia”; “The
                 role of policy in promoting enterprise learning during early industrialization”;
                 “Learning to catch-up in Africa”; “Special Economic Zones and export-led growth:
                 an industrial policy imperative”, among others.

                 Kori Udovicki (Serbia)
                 Head of the Center for Advanced Economic Studies (CEVES) in Belgrade,
                 independent think-and-do-tank devoted to advancing Serbia’s economic recovery,
                 democratic consolidation and convergence with the European Union. Former
                 positions include Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration and
                 Local Self-Government of Serbia, Minister of Energy and Mines of Serbia, Director
                 of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent
                 States (CIS), Governor of the National Bank of Serbia, and Economist at the
                 International Monetary Fund. She holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University.

                 Rolph van der Hoeven (Netherlands)
                 Professor of Employment and Development Economics (Emeritus) at the
                 International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University, Netherlands. From
                 2005 to 2008, he was the Director for Policy Coherence at the International Labour
                 Organization (ILO) in Geneva. Has worked for over 30 years in various countries for
                 UNICEF and the ILO, where he, inter alia, was policy analyst for the ILO in Zambia
                 and Ethiopia, Chief Economist with UNICEF in New York, manager of the
                 interdepartmental project on Employment and Structural Adjustment at the ILO, and
                 manager of the Technical Secretariat of the World Commission on the Social
                 Dimension of Globalization. He is widely published on employment, poverty,
                 inequality and economic reform issues and has a PhD in Economics from the Free
                 University of Amsterdam.

                 Natalya Volchkova (Russia)
                 Senior Lecturer and Director at the Center for Economic and Financial Research, New
                 Economic School, and Vice-Rector at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Moscow.
                 Former positions include visiting scholar at the Stockholm Institute of Transition
                 Economics, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and
                 Lecturer in International Economics at the International College of Economics and
                 Finance, Moscow. In terms of civic and international affairs activities, she is involved
                 as a Member in the Expert Council of Accounting Chamber of Russia, Council on
                 Research Activities of Central Bank of Russia and the Council for Global Problem
                 Solving. She is the author of various publications and books on economic issues and
                 has been awarded VISBY Scholarship for Senior Researchers (Sweden), and the
                 Fulbright Scholarship for Visiting Scholars (United States of America). She holds a
                 PhD in Economics from the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute in Moscow.

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           Xufeng Zhu (China)
           Professor and Executive Associate Dean at the School of Public Policy and
           Management (SPPM) and Executive Director of the Institute for Sustain able
           Development Goals, Tsinghua University (TUSDG), Deputy Director of the Science
           & Technology Development and Governance Center, Tsinghua University (TUSTDG),
           and Director of the Think Tank Research Center of the SPPM. His research interests
           include public policy theories, science and technology policy, sustainable
           development and environment policy, and public governance in transitional China.
           He served as Professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University.
           He serves as Adjunct Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He serves as
           Regional Editor of Asian Journal of Political Sciences, Associate Editor of Journal of
           Comparative Policy Analysis, and has editorial board memberships in ten other
           international journals. He also serves as Co-Chair of the SDG Working Committee of
           the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA). He
           has won various national academic awards in China, including the National
           Distinguished Young Scholars of China (2016), and others. H e was the winner of
           “Best Comparative Policy Paper Award for 2012” of the American Society for Public
           Administration (ASPA) and the “Naschold Award for Excellence in Scholarship in
           Public Management”. He was also selected as Harvard Yenching Scholar by the
           Harvard Yenching Institute in 2008. He holds a bachelor’s degree in environment
           engineering and a doctor’s degree in public management from Tsinghua University.

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