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Ian C. Kinniburgh

Date of Birth: 22 November 1944

Ian Kinniburgh is a career international civil servant and has worked with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Pakistan and New York and with various offices of the UN Secretariat in New York and Geneva.

He received degrees in economics from Nottingham University in the United Kingdom and Monash University in Australia, where he also served as Teaching Fellow. Between these two periods of training, he served as a Junior Professional Officer (Volunteer) in the UNDP Offices in West and East Pakistan. Upon leaving Australia, he re-joined the UNDP where he initially served as the Desk Officer for Bangladesh in UNDP Headquarters. He then joined Transnational Corporations. His next assignments were in the Department of International Economic and Social Affairs and then Chief of the Developing Countries Section. In 1990, he transferred to UNCTAD in Geneva where he was initially Senior Advisor in the International Trade Division and subsequently Chief of the Programme Policy and Coordination Unit. Returning to New York, Ian Kinniburgh was appointed Chief of the Office of Under-Secretary-General in the Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis in UN Headquarters. He then served as Director for Deveopment Analysis in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, before his current position as Director of the Development Policy and Planning Office in the same Department.

Ian Kinniburgh is British and married with two children.