East and North-East Asia Policy Dialogue on the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2022

Dr. Baasanjav Ganbold is the Head of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) East and North-East Asia Office based in Incheon, Republic of Korea. Prior to joining ESCAP in 2019, Dr. Ganbold worked extensively for the government of Mongolia as a career diplomat, serving as Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (2013-2018) and Vietnam (2004-2008), and more recently as the Ambassador-at-large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Sustainable Development. Earlier he served as the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Director-General of the Departments of Public Affairs and Asia and the Pacific respectively, and in the Embassy of Mongolia in Pyongyang, DPR of Korea. He earned his BA in International Relations from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia, MA in Political Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, and Ph.D. in Law from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea.

Lin Zhuo has worked as the Associate Economic Affairs Officer in the Macroeconomic Policy and Financing for Development Division at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) since 2020. She has been part of the drafting team for the Survey. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Before joining ESCAP, she worked for the UN in New York. Before joining UN, she worked for various financial institutions in Hong Kong. Lin obtained her master's in investment management from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Dr. Chuanhong Zhang is Associate Professor at College of Humanities and Development Studies and Director of Center for International Development Cooperation Studies at College of International Development and Global Agriculture (CIDGA), China Agricultural University. Dr. Zhang also serves as the Secretary of China International Development Research Network (CIDRN). She was an academic visitor of the China Centre at University of Oxford (2011-2012) and a visiting scholar of the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis (2017-2018). Her research interests cover both China’s domestic transformation and international development cooperation, specifically on China’s poverty reduction, China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation, Gender and Development, etc.

Dr. Seungcheol Lee is an Economist at the Macroeconomics Team of the Economic Research Institute, Bank of Korea. Before taking his current position in 2022, he has served as an economist for the Research Department, Financial Market Department, and Economic Statistics Department in the Bank of Korea, and also for the Department of International Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His main research field is macroeconomics, specializing in heterogeneous agent model. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University College London.

Dr. Masahiro Kawai is Representative Director and Director-General of the Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia (ERINA). Dr. Kawai began his professional career as a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He then taught as an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Economy of The Johns Hopkins University, and as a Professor of Economics at the Institute of Social Science of the University of Tokyo. He also served as: Chief Economist for the World Bank’s East Asia and the Pacific Region; Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs of Japan’s Ministry of Finance; President of the Policy Research Institute of Japan’s Finance Ministry; Special Advisor to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) President in charge of regional economic cooperation and integration; and Dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI).