United Nations Resident Coordinator for Malaysia &
UNDP Resident Representative for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam
Kamal Malhotra is the United Nations Resident Coordinator for Malaysia. He is concurrently the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam, as well as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Representative for Malaysia. He took up these positions in late October 2008.
Immediately 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, he had responsibility for UNDP’s development policy work on trade, intellectual property, the global dimensions of debt, capital flows, development finance, and migration and development.
Prior to his work with UNDP, which he joined in August 1999, Mr. Malhotra spent over 15 years working on development policy issues. This included six years in the Philippines (1982-1988), seven years as Director of the Overseas and Aboriginal Program at Oxfam Australia (1988-1995), and four years as co-founder and Co-Director of focus on the Global South, a policy research and advocacy organization based at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (1995-1999). Prior to working on development issues, Mr. Malhotra spent three years as a management consultant based in India.
Mr. Malhotra has an undergraduate degree from the University of Delhi in economics (honours, first class), and post-graduate degrees from both 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.
Mr. Malhotra is widely published. His publications include five 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), now reproduced in seven major languages, and the coordinator of the UNDP led publication “Making Globalization Work for the Least Developed Countries” (UNDP, 2008).
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