Time:Monday, 19 April 2021 10:00 am Beijing time

Meeting ID:687 8627 9801  

Password:yVi9DY

Topic:Development Finance Flow During COVID- Landscape

Speaker：Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya

Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya, a macroeconomist and public policy analyst, is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka, where he was its first Executive Director. Earlier he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to WTO and UN Offices in Geneva and Vienna, President of UNCTAD Governing Board, Special Advisor on LDCs to the Secretary General of UNCTAD, Coordinator of LDC Group of countries in the UN System in Geneva.Studied in Dhaka, Moscow and Oxford; visiting positions held include at the Center for Global Development, Washington DC.Member, United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP).  Undertook assignments on behalf of international and bilateral development agencies in various developing countries. Member of various high-level national consultation committees and commissions. Serves as Convenor, Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh.Member of governing bodies of several leading institutions (including BRAC International) and editorial boards of reputed journals (including Oxford Development Studies).Chairs Southern Voice international network of think tanks and LDC IV Monitor alliance. Led the pioneering multi-country study on shaping the 2030 Agenda, data deficits of SDG monitoring, and early signals of SDG implementation. Team Leader of the Southern Voice Report on the State of SDGs. Leading a number of studies focussed on designing incentives for graduating Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

Moderater:

Prof. Xu Xiuli, Dean of College of International Development and Global Agriculture, China Agricultural University

Prof. Zhang Chuanhong, College of Humanities and Development Studies/College of International Development and Global Agriculture, China Agricultural University