Debapriya made new permanent representative to UN

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The government has decided to appoint Debapriya Bhattacharya, executive director of Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), as the next Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Offices in Geneva, said an official announcement, reports UNB.
Born in 1956, Bhattacharya worked as a senior research fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) prior to his assignment with the CPD.
He is a macro-economist and public policy analyst. He studied in the city's St Gregory's High school, Dhaka College and did his MSc (Economics) with distinction and PhD (Economics) from the Plekhanov Institute of National Economy, Moscow.
Bhattacharya was a post-doctoral fellow at the Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.
He was a senior Fulbright fellow at the Centre for Global Development (CGD), Washington DC in 2004-2005. He was also a visiting fellow at the United Nations University-Institute of New Technology (UNU-INTECH), Maastricht, and Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
He has conducted joint research with the Institute of Developing Economics (IDE), Tokyo, and Institute of Development Planning and Management (IDPM), Manchester.
Bhattacharya undertook assignments for a number of international organisations including the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO, UNCTAD, ILO as well as bilateral development agencies from the US, Japan, the UK, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden.
Bhattacharya has more than one hundred publications to his credit including chapters in books, monographs, journals, articles and research reports.