Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya is a macro-economist and public policy analyst. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in Dhaka, where he also served as the first Executive Director. He is also a member of the CPD Board of Trustees. Being appointed by the Interim Government of Bangladesh, Dr Debapriya led the committee for the preparation of the ‘White Paper on the State of Bangladesh’s Economy’. He is the Convenor of the Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh – a network of more than 150 partner organisations from civil society and private sector. Dr Debapriya is a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy, a subsidiary body of the UN General Assembly. Dr Debapriya is the former ambassador and permanent representative of Bangladesh to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and UN Offices of Geneva and Vienna. He was the Special Advisor on LDCs to the Secretary General of UNCTAD, President of the governing board of UNCTAD and Coordinator of the LDC Group in the UN System. He served as the General Secretary of the Bangladesh Economic Association for three consecutive terms. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). He is the founding Chair of the Southern Voice – a network of 50 think tanks and also the founding Chair of LDC Monitor. He is regularly featured in the local and international media. Dr Debapriya holds a Master’s and PhD in Economics from the Plekhanov Institute of National Economics, Moscow. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. He was also a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD), Washington DC. His books, published by Routledge, include the following.