The Committee for Development Policy (CDP; Spanish: ''Comité de Políticas de Desarrollo'', CPD) is a subsidiary body of the

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(ECOSOC). The task of the CDP is to provide independent advice to the Council on development policy issues. The Committee is also responsible for deciding which countries can be considered least developed countries (LDCs). The Committee has 24 members, nominated in their personal capacity by the United Nations Secretary-General and appointed by ECOSOC for a period of three years. Th
Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy
in the

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, Economic Analysis and Policy Division, provides substantive and administrative assistance to the Committee.

Membership

The last three-year term began on 1 January 2019. Members for the period from 2019 to 2021 are: * Adriana Abdenur (Brazil) * Debapriya Bhattacharya (Bangladesh) *

Winnie Byanyima Winifred Byanyima (born 13 January 1959), is a Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician, human rights activist, feminist and diplomat. She is the executive director of UNAIDS, effective November 2019. From May 2013 until November 2019, she ser ...

(Uganda) *

Ha-Joon Chang Ha-Joon Chang (; ; born 7 October 1963) is a South Korean institutional economist, specialising in development economics. Chang is the author of several widely discussed policy books, most notably ''Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strateg ...

(Republic of Korea) * Diane Elson (United Kingdom) *

Marc Fleurbaey Marc Fleurbaey (born 11 October 1961) is a French researcher specialized in normative economics and social choice theory. He has been researcher and professor in the United Kingdom, France and the United States since 1994. He is currently profes ...

(France) *

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (サキコ・フクダ・パー、福田咲子) (born 1950) is a development economist who has gained recognition for her work with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and for her writing in publications including ...

(Japan) * Kevin Gallagher (United States) * Arunabha Ghosh (India) * Sen Gong (China) * Trudi Hartzenberg (South Africa) *

Rashid Hassan Rashid Mekki Hassan is the Professor and Director at the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) at the University of Pretoria. He specialises in natural resource and environmental economics, agricultural economics, and op ...

(Sudan) * Stephan Klasen (Germany) * Amina Mama (Nigeria) *

Mariana Mazzucato Mariana Francesca Mazzucato (born June 16, 1968) is an economist with dual Italian–American citizenship. She is a professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London and founding director of the UCL Institute ...

(Italy) *

Leticia Merino Leticia (derived from the Latin greeting ''laetitia'' meaning ''joy'', ''gladness'', ''delight'') may refer to: People ;Given name * Saint Leticia, a venerated virgin martyr, saint * Queen Letizia of Spain (born 1972), queen consort of Spain * ...

(Mexico) *

Jacqueline Musiitwa Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa is an international lawyer and expert in African commercial affairs, who served as the executive director of ''Financial Sector Deepening Uganda'', a Ugandan non-profit that aims to facilitate the availability of afford ...

(Zambia) *

Keith Nurse Keith may refer to: People and fictional characters * Keith (given name), includes a list of people and fictional characters * Keith (surname) * Keith (singer), American singer James Keefer (born 1949) * Baron Keith, a line of Scottish barons i ...

(Trinidad and Tobago) *

José Antonio Ocampo José Antonio Ocampo Gaviria (born 20 December 1952) is a Colombian writer, economist and academic who was the professor of professional practice in international and public affairs and director of the Economic and Political Development Concentra ...

(Colombia) *

Meg Taylor Dame Meg Taylor is a Papua New Guinean politician who served as Secretary General to the Pacific Islands Forum from 2014 to 2021. She was previously an athlete, lawyer and diplomat. Life and career She received her LL.B degree from Melbourne Un ...

(Papua New Guinea) * Taffere Tesfachew (Ethiopia) *

Rolph van der Hoeven Rolph Eric van der Hoeven (born 23 June 1948) is emeritus professor on employment and development economics at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and was appointed in 2009 as a member of the Committee on Development Coo ...

(Netherlands) * Kori Udovicki (Serbia) *

Natalya Volchkova Natalya (russian: Наталья) is the Russian form of the female given name Natalia. The name Natasha (russian: link=no, Наташа), being originally a diminutive form of Natalya, became an independent name outside the Russian-speaking state ...

(Russian Federation)

References

External links

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