Indian Development Economist Jayati Ghosh has been recently appointed to a new high-level advisory board on effective multilateralism by the United Nations General Antonio Guterres.
On Friday 18 March, the UN chief Guterres made the major announcement regarding the set up of the fresh Advisory Board on effective multilateralism which is an alliance of various countries studying on a common objective.
The board will be co-chaired by former Swedish PM Stefan Lofven, former Liberian President and Nobel laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Jayati Ghosh is selected for the board of 12 members which will get assistance in their functioning by the Centre for Policy Research of UN University in close association with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.
Other members of the Advisory Board on multilateralism include Nepalese climate activist Poonam Ghimire, Kenya-based writer and researcher Nanjala Nyabola, president of the China Institute of International Studies Xu Bu, Rwanda's former finance and economic planning minister Donald Kaberuka.
The list of members of the board also includes Senior Minister of Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, CEO of US-based think tank New America Anne-Marie Slaughter.
66-year-old Indian renowned economist Ghosh is serving as a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States.
Before moving to the US, Ghosh worked as a professor of economics in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) of Delhi. She was the chairperson of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences in JNU.
The core areas of study of Ghosh include gender and development, macroeconomic policies international economics and employment patterns in developing countries.
Ghosh is an active member of the United Nations high-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs. She was appointed on January 2021 by Guterres for the board along with 19 other renowned personalities and thinkers across the world.
Her work was to give recommendations for the United Nations Secretary-General in responding to the present and future socio-economic problems after the global covid pandemic.
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