NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BANGLADESH PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Debapriya Bhattacharya, the new Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Concurrently with his new post in Geneva, Mr. Bhattacharya has been accredited to the United Nations agencies in Vienna and will serve as Bangladesh’s Ambassador to the Vatican.

Prior to his appointment in Geneva, Mr. Bhattacharya, a macro-economist and civil society activist, had been serving as the Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue, a leading think tank in South Asia. He had earlier worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. He was also a visiting Fellow at the United Nations University-Institute of New Technology and the Department of Economics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He has conducted joint research with the Institute of Developing Economies in Tokyo and the Institute of Development Planning and Management in Manchester. He has undertaken assignments for a number of United Nations and other international organizations, and for bilateral development agencies from the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden. He has regularly participated in high-level consultative bodies of the Government of Bangladesh and represented the country in international fora.

Born in 1956, Mr. Bhattacharya obtained his Ph.D. and M. Sc. in economics at Plekhanov Institute of National Economy in Moscow. He was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. He was also a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the Centre for Global Development in Washington D.C. He has written a large number of books, monographs, articles and policy briefs. He is married with a daughter.


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