1983, BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Oxford; 1985, MA in Area Studies, Economics and Regional Planning, University of London; studies in Development Economics and Policy, German Development Institute, Berlin; 1997, World Bank Executive Development Programme, Harvard. 1986-88, Technical Adviser, GTZ, Pakistan/Germany; 1988-91, Policy Adviser, Office for Corporate Strategy and Development Policy, GTZ; 1991-95, Programme Coordinator, IUCN, Southern Africa; 1995-98, Senior Policy Adviser, Global Policy Unit, IUCN, Washington DC; 1998, Chief Technical Adviser, Mekong River Commission, GTZ, Viet Nam; 1998-2001, Secretary-General, World Commission on Dams, South Africa; 2001-06, Director-General, IUCN-World Conservation Union, Switzerland; 2006-16, UN Undersecretary-General and Executive Director, UNEP; 2016-17, Director, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford; since 2017, Administrator, UN Development Programme.
NEW YORK / JOHANNESBURG – Aujourd'hui, « l’argent mobile » – un service permettant aux gens d'envoyer, de recevoir et garder en réserve de l’argent sur un téléphone portable – permet à un...
As the world seems to wake-up to new challenges on a daily basis – from devastating wildfires in Australia, to the unpredictable global spread of a new coronavirus – it may be human to fe...
Last week I had the opportunity to visit Bhutan for the first time, a trip I’ve been looking forward to for many years. The country’s quest to buck the global trend of measuring human dev...
“The Garden of Eden is no more”, Sir David Attenborough told Davos 2019 as he delivered his verdict on the destruction that humanity has inflicted on the natural world. Sir David also off...
This week in Davos brings together leading thinkers on a range of topics of global significance, including two not often mentioned in the same breath: the Sustainable Development Goals (S...
JOHANNESBOURG/NEW YORK – La digitalisation de la finance – transformation associée à la révolution numérique et visant l’écosystème financier dans son ensemble – peut permettre une accélé...
The current refugee crisis is the most significant since the second world war. This discussion is loud and complex, and thin on facts. Here we present some conclusions drawn from visualiz...
Last December in Paris, world leaders came together to agree on a set of goals and pathways for decarbonizing the global economy and increasing our capacity to adapt to climate change. It...
Many of us live in a world where real darkness has become a novelty. The city-dwellers of the world - more than 54% of the global population, according to the UN’s Department of Social an...
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