MEDIA ADVISORY
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What: Roundtable Conference on Human Development Report
Where: National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
H-12, Islamabad, Pakistan, Conference Room # 1
When: Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Time: 11 am-1:00 pm followed by lunch
Who: Mr. Khalid Malik, Director Human Development Office, UNDP, New York
Dr. Ashfaque H. Khan, Dean NUST Business School
Mr. Toshihiro Tanaka, Country Director UNDP
Dr. Vaqar Ahmed, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)
Details: The Roundtable Conference will focus on three themes, namely Investing in People, Reducing Poverty & Measuring Progress, and Enhancing Social Justice/Equality and Sustainability. Mr. Khalid Malik will talk about the state of human development and the themes for future Human Development reports. The inputs from this event will help inform the content of the next year HDR (2012) which is titled “A Changing World; Human Progress and the Rise of the Global South” as well as the HDR 2013: “Beyond 2015: Accelerating Human Progress and Defining Goals”.
Jointly organized by: The National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Please join us for lunch
About Mr. Khalid Malik, Director Human Development Report Office: is a development economist with extensive leadership, research and advocacy experience. He was appointed Director of the UNDP Human Development Report in June 2011. Born in Pakistan, he studied economics at the universities of Punjab, Cambridge, Essex, and Oxford. Mr. Malik has had a long, distinguished career with the UN. Prior to joining the Human Development Report Office served as Special Advisor on New Development Partnerships (2010-2011); UN Resident Coordinator in China (2003-2010); Director, Evaluation Office (1997-2003); and UN Representative in Uzbekistan (1993-1997). Earlier he worked as a senior economist and programme manager in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and on science and technology matters.
Before joining the UN, Mr. Malik taught and conducted research at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (1975) and at Pembroke College, Oxford (1974-75). He has been an invited speaker at the Club of Rome, the Boao Forum (Asia’s Davos), and many other leading international forums on a range of topics, including China’s a growth, climate change and the environment, and global security. He co-hosted the annual International Finance Forum with one of China’s leaders, Cheng Siwei, Vice Chairman of the 10th People’s Congress.
Mr. Malik has written widely on development issues. He co-edited a review of the Lessons Learned in Crisis and Post-Conflict Situations (2002) and Capacity for Development: New Solutions to Old Problems (2002), and was the lead author of the 2004 UNDP Development Effectiveness Report. His latest book - Why China Has Grown So Fast for So Long - is to be published shortly. Mr. Malik is on the Advisory Board of the Oxford Centre of China Studies and received an honorary doctorate from Nanchang University. In 2009, Mr. Malik was selected by the government of China as one of ten “champions” - and the only foreigner - to be honored for their contributions to the protection of the environment in China.
About Human Development Reports: The annual Human Development Report is an editorially independent publication of the United Nations Development Programme. For free downloads of the 2011 Human Development Report in ten languages, plus additional reference materials on its indices and specific regional implications, please visit: http://hdr.undp.org.
About UNDP: UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. On the ground in 177 countries and territories, we offer global perspective and local insight to help empower lives and build resilient nations. Please visit: http://www.undp.org.pk
For further information and media assistance, please contact,
Mehreen Saeed, Communication Analyst, Head Communications Unit, UNDP Pakistan
4rth Floor Serena Office Complex, Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel: +92-51-8355650, Cell 0300 535 8225 or Email: mehreen.saeed@undp.org
Website: http://www.undp.org.pk
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