MBA, École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Paris; diploma, Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP), Paris; PhD in Economics, University of Paris. Since 1980, with the United Nations: Economist, United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, New York, involved in the negotiations on the United Nations Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations; with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), working on issues related to international capital flows and developing country debt, and then foreign direct investment and transnational corporations; several years as team leader, World Investment Report, UNCTAD; currently, Director, Division on Technology and Logistics, UNCTAD, and Head of the Secretariat of UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development; responsible for activities in the area of innovation and technology for development, and transport and trade facilitation.
