Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, March 21: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has chosen Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh to a new high-level advisory group on effective multilateralism.
Jayati Ghosh (66) is a University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor. She was previously a professor of economics and the chairperson of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of Social Sciences. She is also a member of the UN’s Economic and Social Affairs High-Level Advisory Board.
Former Liberian President and Nobel Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven will co-chair the Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, which Guterres announced on Friday.
Ghosh has been appointed to the 12-member board, which will be assisted in its work by the United Nations University’s Centre for Policy Research, which will work closely with the Secretary-Executive General’s Office.
Ghosh was appointed to a high-level advisory board by Guterres in January last year, along with 19 other thinkers and personalities from around the world, to provide recommendations to the UN Secretary-General on how to respond to current and future socio-economic challenges in the post-COVID-19 world.
