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General Debate
Chair:
  • H.E. Mr. Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava, Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe to the UN and Vice President of ECOSOC

Introduction of the SG Report on ECOSOC Main Theme and Note by SG on Theme of Thematic Dicscussion:
  • Mr. Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs

Presentation of the report of the Committee on Development Policy:
  • Mr. José Antonio Ocampo, Director of the Economic and Political Development Concentration at SIPA, Columbia University, USA and Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP)
Biographies
Mr. José Antonio Ocampo
Chairperson of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP)
Mr. José Antonio Ocampo

Chairperson of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP)

José Antonio Ocampo is director of the Economic and Political Development Concentration in the School of International and Public Affairs, Member of the Committee on Global Thought and co-President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. He is also the Chair of the Committee for Development Policy, an expert committee of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). In 2012–2013 he chaired the panel created by the IMF Board to review the activities of the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office; in 2008–2010, he served as co-director of the UNDP/OAS Project on “Agenda for a Citizens’ Democracy in Latin America”; and in 2009 a Member of the Commission of Experts of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System.

Prior to his appointment, Ocampo served in a number of positions in the United Nations and the Government of Colombia, most notably as United Nations Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs; Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Chairman of the Board of Banco del República (Central Bank of Colombia); Director of the National Planning Department (Minister of Planning); Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, and Executive Director of FEDESARROLLO.

Ocampo has published extensively on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic and social development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history.

Ocampo received his BA in economics and sociology from the University of Notre Dame in 1972 and his PhD in economics from Yale University in 1976. He served as Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes and of Economic History at the National University of Colombia, and Visiting Fellow at Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Yale. He has received a number of personal honors and distinctions, including the 2012 Jaume Vicens Vives Prize 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 Angel Escobar” National Science Award of Colombia.

Mr. Wu Hongbo
UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
Mr. Wu Hongbo

UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs

Mr. Wu Hongbo was appointed United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs on 1 August 2012. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Wu served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Federal Republic of Germany. Among his various diplomatic assignments, Mr. Wu served as China’s Ambassador to the Philippines.

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Afghanistan
Algeria
Australia
China
Committee for Development Policy (CDP)
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Czech Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Guatemala
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Iran
Israel
Japan
Liberia
Major Group: Business and Industry
Major Group: Children and Youth
Major Group: Women
Mali
New Zealand
Palau
Paraguay
Republic of Korea
Russian Federation
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Singapore
Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities
Swaziland
United Nations