Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya
Distinguished Fellow,
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD);
Bangladesh
Dr. Bhattacharya, a macro-economist and public policy analyst, is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in Dhaka, where he was the first Executive Director. He has been appointed by the Interim Government of Bangladesh as the Chair of the committee for the preparation of the “White Paper on the State of Bangladesh’s Economy”. He is a member of, among others, the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) and the Supervisory Board of BRAC International.
He is a former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and UN Offices of Geneva and Vienna. He had been the Special Advisor on LDCs to the Secretary General of UNCTAD, President of the UNCTAD Governing Board, and the Coordinator of the LDC Group of countries in the UN System in Geneva. He is the founding Chair of two global initiatives, viz. LDC Monitor and Southern Voice. He is the Convenor of Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh.
Dr Debapriya holds a Master’s and PhD in Economics from Plekhanov Institute of National Economics, Moscow. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Oxford and a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD), Washington DC.
His books include Southern Perspectives on the Post-2015 International Development Agenda (2016); Bangladesh’s Graduation from the Least Developed Countries Group – Pitfalls and Promises (2018); COVID-19 and Bangladesh: Inclusion, Disaggregation and Transition (2024); Effective Development Cooperation: New Evidence from the Global South (forthcoming), all published by Routledge.