Haiyan Qian (钱海燕) (September 14, 1955 – February 18, 2013) was the Director of the Division for Public Administration & Development Management (DPADM),

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Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA).

Life

She received her Bachelor of Arts in

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and her Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government,

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. For the last 33 years, Haiyan has dedicated her career to global public policy, governance and public administration. Since joining the

Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), formerly the Department of Development Support & Management Services (DDSMS), Ms. Qian has served in various capacities. From 1994 to 1997, she served as a Senior Economic Affairs Officer in the then Public Finance and Private Sector Branch of the Division for Governance, Public Administration and Finance. In this capacity, she carried out analytical work on economic restructuring and peace time redeployment of military resources. From 1998 to 2002, she served as the Chief of Technical Cooperation Cluster, Chief of Information and Networking Unit, and Chief Manager of the United Nations Public Administration Network (UNPAN) in the then Division for Public Economics and Public Administration (DPEPA). She was instrumental in the development of UNPAN which started out as a United Nations Development Account Project. In 2003 and 2004, she served as the Chief of the Public Administration Networking Unit and Chief Manager of UNPAN, Division for Public Administration & Development Management (DPADM),

Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). From 2005 to 2009, Ms. Qian served as Chief of the e-Government Branch (formerly known as Knowledge Management Branch), until she was appointed Director of DPADM. Prior to that, she worked for other

agencies, such as the Centre for Science and Technology for Development, before it merged with UN DDSMS, and the

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Centre on Environmentally Sound Technology in Japan. Before joining the

, Ms. Qian worked for the Chinese Government in the area of science and technology for development and served in the Chinese Permanent Mission to the

based in New York twice, covering the United Nations Second Committee on Social and Economic Affairs. UN Perspective: Governments Today - Interview with Ms. Haiyan Qian - FutureGov Speaker at

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; and the Sixth Ministerial eGovernment Conference, entitled "Borderless eGovernment Services for Europeans", on 17–18 November 2011, City of Poznań.

References

External links

"In Memory of Ms. Haiyan Qian"

"Speeches by Haiyan Qian"
''United Nations'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Qian, Haiyan 2013 deaths Chinese officials of the United Nations Diplomats of the People's Republic of China 1955 births Harvard Kennedy School alumni People from Beijing