Kamal Malhotra is the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam.  He is also concurrently the United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator for Malaysia, as well as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Representative for Malaysia.  He took up these positions in late October 2008. 

Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Malhotra was Senior Adviser and Cluster Leader, Inclusive Globalization in UNDP’s Bureau for Development Policy in New York.  In that capacity, his portfolio had overall responsibility for UNDP’s development policy work on trade, intellectual property and investment as well as its policy work on the global dimensions of debt, capital flows, development finance and migration and development.

Mr. Malhotra has degrees from the University of Delhi in economics, from the Indian Institute of Management in business management with specializations in economics and finance and from Columbia University, New York, USA, in international affairs with a specialization in economic and political development.  He has lived and worked in many different parts of the world including in Southeast Asia for approximately 10 years prior to his most recent assignment. 

His publications include 5 books (lead-author, co-author or co-editor), over 15 chapters in books and over 75 papers and journal and other articles on development policy issues and the multilateral system.  He was the lead author and coordinator of the UNDP co-sponsored publication “Making Global Trade Work for People”, (Earthscan, London and USA, 2003) and the coordinator of the UNDP led publication “Making Globalization Work for the Least Developed Countries” (UNDP, 2008).

October 2008