AI is an unfamiliar phase of capital and labour saving technological development. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the trailblazer of the fourth industrial revolution, rolling-out integrated networks […]
MEDIA (SELECTED) Launch of World Economic and Social Survey 2013 Presentations of impact of financial crisis on LDC trade performance (2009-10) to the global media at […]
INSTITUTION BUILDING His institution building experiences includes providing leadership, guidance and mentoring, developing annual and multi-annual programmes, managing projects and creating academic and think tank networks. […]
About Willem Willem builds on his academic experiences at Cambridge, Oxford Universities, Brussels, Leiden and Stockholm Universities as well as from senior posts which he has […]
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS EDITED VOLUMES 2015 Taking Stock of the Global Partnership for Development – 2015 MDG Gap Task Force Report, (Editor), United Nations DESA 2014 […]
AWARDS 2016 UN Staff Recognition Award received from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon 1986-87 FCO Chevening Scholar, British Council Scholarship to University of […]
MEMBERSHIP AND ASSOCIATION 2005-present Member, The Cambridge Society of Belgium 2001-2007 Member, Fondation Universitair, Brussels 1999-2003 Vice-President, EU-Japan Association, […]
POSITIONS HELD: 2013-2016 UNITED NATIONS, Chief, Development Strategies and Policy/Senior Advisor for Macro-economic policy, UN Secretariat, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), New York […]