NEW YORK: India's Ajay Chhibber has been appointed Assistant Administrator of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Director of its regional bureau for Asia and the Pacific, the world body has announced. Chibber, a World Bank official who worked at the Planning Commission and was also a lecturer in economics at the University of Delhi, replaces Hafiz Pasha and will hold the rank of Assistant Secretary General.
Chhibber, an aluminus of Delhi School of Economics, has been working with the World Bank for over 25 years, covering both research and policy issues, and has worked across Asia. He is currently the Country Director for Vietnam, where he manages more than one billion dollars in lending. He was staff director on the World Development Report in 1997 and served as a senior economist at the World Bank.
Before joining the World Bank, Chhibber was a consultant researcher for Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Food Policy Research Institute. Ins Alberdi of Spain has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
Alberdi, who succeeds Noeleen Heyzer, was selected by UNDP Administrator Ad Melkert in consultation with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UNIFEM Consultative Committee, the agency said. Alberdi has had a long career dealing with issues related to gender, development and politics. From 2003 to 2007 she was a deputy in the Madrid Assembly, and before that she has worked for the European Union, the Spanish Sociological Research Centre and the Inter-American Development Bank.-
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