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Global Sustainable Development Report 2023

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Global Sustainable Development Report 2023

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Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) 2023 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs

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The Global Sustainable Development Report 2023 “Times of Crisis, Times of Change: Science for Accelerating Transformations to Sustainable Development”, the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), finds that at this critical juncture,

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Global Sustainable Development Report 2019

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Global Sustainable Development Report 2019

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Mr. Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue (Cameroon)

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue (Cameroon) is Professor and Department Chair of Development Sociology, Cornell University. His research in the realm of global development covers questions about the demography of inequality, the sociology of education, and the links between global population change and socioeconomic development. Within these areas, he has worked on substantive questions on demographic dividends, youth bulges, intergenerational exchanges, and the demographic reproduction of inequality. In linking population and development, he is testing new frameworks and methods that can link micro processes and aggregate outcomes of interest in global development policy. Much of this work has a strong policy orientation. Some of it seeks to advance understanding of the policy prospects and policies for harnessing a demographic dividend in sub-Saharan Africa, and he has coordinated a network of African researchers working on this question. He is serving or has served on the Board of Directors several professional organizations, including the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the Population Association of America (PAA), the US Population Reference Bureau (PRB), and the Guttmacher Institute.

Mr. Ernest G. Foli (Ghana)

Ernest G. Foli (Ghana) is Principal Research Scientist at the CSIR Forestry Research Institute of Ghana. He holds a PhD in Forestry with specialization in Tropical Forest Silviculture & Management from University of Aberdeen, UK. His professional fields of interest include Tropical Forest Ecology & Silviculture; Forest Mensuration & Inventory (Natural forest and plantations); Tropical Forest Management; Growth & Yield Modelling; Forest Biomass and Carbon Stocks Assessment; Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation. He has held several management positions in the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, including Head of the Ecosystem Services & Climate Change Division, the Plantation Production Division, Training and Consultancy Unit and, until recently, Deputy Director of the Institute. Dr Foli is a member of numerous organizations, including International Union of Forest Research Organisations' Forest Futures Task Force, Commonwealth Forestry Association, UK (since 2000), Governing Council, Commonwealth Forestry Association, UK (since 2009), Ghana Representative on the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO) Thematic Programme Advisory Committee on REDDES (Yokohama, Japan) since 2009 and others.

Ms. Eeva Furman (Finland)

Eeva Furman (Finland) is Director of the Environmental Policy Centre at the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE. She chairs the National Expert Panel on Sustainable Development, comprising of eminent professors from different disciplines. She is the coordinator of a project dealing with operationalization of ecosystem services and natural capital, OpenNESS, funded by the 7th framework programme of the European Commission. She leads a sub-project In a project on politics, practices and the transformative potential of sustainable diets funded by Academy of Finland. She is a member of council for the European long term biodiversity, ecosystems and awareness research network, the ALTER-Net. Ms Furman has more than 100 publications including peer reviewed international articles, report and books for broad audience. She was responsible for the Gap analysis of implementing Agenda 2030 in Finland. Her research interests include policy effectiveness, mechanisms of problem oriented and policy relevant knowledge production and transfer, urban resilience and socio-ecological processes.

Ms. Amanda Glassman (USA)

Amanda Glassman (USA) is chief operating officer and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. Her research focuses on priority-setting, resource allocation and value for money in global health, as well as data for development. She has more than 25 years of experience working on health and social protection policy and programs in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Prior to joining CGD, Glassman was principal technical lead for health at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she led policy dialogue with member countries, designed the results-based grant program Salud Mesoamerica 2015 and served as team leader for conditional cash transfer programs such as Mexicoâ€™s Oportunidades and Colombiaâ€™s Familias en Accion. From 2005-2007, Glassman was deputy director of the Global Health Financing Initiative at Brookings and carried out policy research on aid effectiveness and domestic financing issues in the health sector in low-income countries.

Mr. Gonzalo Hernández Licona (Mexico)

Gonzalo Hernández Licona (Mexico) is the Director of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL). The objective of CONEVAL is to evaluate the social development policy and programs, as well as measuring poverty in Mexico. He is also Board Member of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), Board Member of El Colegio de MÃ©xico, member of the Evaluation Committee of the GAVI Alliance and teaches Development Economics at ITAM in Mexico since 1991.Â He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oxford, UK, a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Essex, UK, and a Bachelorâ€™s Degree in Economics from the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM). He was Head of Evaluation and Monitoring at the Ministry of Social Development. He was full-time Chair Professor at the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM) in the Department of Economics from 1991 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002 and acted as Headmaster of the BA in Economics in the same institution. From 1996 to 2000 he was Academic Representative to the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation Labor Cooperation Commission.

Ms. Eun Mee Kim (Korea)

Eun Mee Kim (Korea) is Professor and Dean at the Graduate School of International Studies, the Director of the Institute for Development and Human Security (IDHS) and the Director of the Ewha Global Health Institute for Girls (GHIG) at Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Korea). She is currently PI on a research grant on Korea's Global Health Strategy focusing on South Korea's global public health strategy and programs funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since 2013. She has conducted research comparing emerging and traditional donors, and the relationship between human security and development with a research grant funded by the WCU (World Class University) program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Korea. Before coming to Ewha, she was Professor in Sociology at the University of Southern California; and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and Brown University. Research interests include East Asian development; globalization; development cooperation; multiculturalism, and chaebol.

Mr. Wolfgang Lutz (Austria)

Wolfgang Lutz (Austria) is Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (a collaboration of IIASA, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and WU). He joined IIASA in October 1985, where he is Program Director of the World Population (POP) Program. Since 2002, he has also been scientific Director of the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and since 2008, Professor of Applied Statistics at the WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business). He is also Professorial Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin School and Honorary Professor of Shanghai University. Professor Lutz has worked on family demography, fertility analysis, population projection, and the interaction between population and environment. He is the author of the series of world population projections produced by IIASA and has developed approaches for projecting education and human capital. In 2008 he received an ERC Advanced Grant, in 2009 the Mattei Dogan Award of the IUSSP, and in 2010 the Wittgenstein Prize, the highest Austrian science award. He is elected full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy Leopoldina, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters and the US National Academy of Sciences.

Mr. Peter Messerli (Switzerland)

Peter Messerli (Switzerland) is Professor for Sustainable Development and Director of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. As a land system scientist and geographer his research interests lie in the sustainable development of social-ecological systems in Africa and Asia. He focuses on increasingly globalized and competing claims on land, rural transformation processes, and spatial manifestations of their outcomes in the Global South. He has lived and worked more than 10 years in Madagascar and Laos, directing large-scale research projects focusing on inter- and transdisciplinarity. Committed to an engaged and transformative sustainability science, he has acquired an extensive experience in science-policy interactions from the local to the global level. He is also the co-chair of Future Earthâ€™s Global Land Programme (GLP) and occupies many functions in advising and guiding governmental, scientific, and civil-society organisations related to sustainable development.

Mr. Jean-Paul Moatti (France)

Jean-Paul Moatti (France) is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the French Research Institute for Development (IRD). He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of health economics, who has had a major impact in regard to the problem of HIV disease. He has been a member of numerous World health organization and World Bank committees on the economics of AIDS and access to HIV/AIDS care in developing countries. He is the author of over 350 articles in scientific reviews and publications on both economic and social sciences and biomedical disciplines and public health. He has been at the head of many national scientific bodies. In particular, he was the director of the Institute for Public Health (ISP) of the French Alliance for Health and Life sciences (Aviesan), which now coordinates all public research in this sector. He was also a member of the national committee of the CNRS and of the governing board of Aix-Marseille University. He was vice Chair of Inserm (French NIH) Scientific Advisory Board, as well as President of the Scientific Board of French National Institute for Prevention and Health Education (INPES) and of the â€œResearch in public health, human and social sciencesâ€ scientific committee of the French Agency for Aids and hepatitis research (ANRS). He is currently a member of the scientific boards of the French Institute for Nuclear Protection & Safety (IRSN) and the National School of Public Health (EHESP).

Ms. Endah Murniningtyas (Indonesia)

Until May 2016, Endah Murniningtyas was Deputy Minister for National Resources and Environment at the Ministry of National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS) of Republic of Indonesia. She was the Indonesian Representative a the Open Working Group on SDs at the UN. She has been working at BAPPENAS for over 30 years in the area of natural resources, economics, and poverty and has been a frequent lecturer at Bogor Agricultural Institute. She is frequently speak at various international conference on Development Plan, SDGs and Povert Reductions. She is an active board member of Perhimpunan Ekonomi Pertanian Indonesia (Perhepi), and also a member of the Long Term Development Planning Study and Strategic Planning Team of BAPPENAS. She graduated with a BSc in Agricultural Economics and Social from Bogor Agricultural Institute in 1984, graduated with an MSc in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Oregon State University in 1989, and was awarded a PhD from Colorado State University in 2000 for studies in Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Ms. Katherine Richardson (Denmark)

Katherine Richardson (Denmark) is Professor of Biological Oceanography and Leader of the Sustainability Science Center at the University of Copenhagen. She was Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee for the scientific conference Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions, which sought to inform the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference. She was also Chair of the Danish Commission on Climate Change Policy which developed the plan for removing fossil fuels from the Danish energy and transport sectors upon which the current national energy strategy is based. She is a member of the Danish Council on Climate Change. Her research is carried out in the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate and focuses on biogeochemical processes in the surface ocean and how these are influenced by climate change. Specifically, her work deals with how changes in climate and biodiversity in the ocean interact to influence the global carbon cycle. She is also a co-leader in the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework aiming to identify a safe operating space for humanity in relation to its perturbation of the global environment.

Mr. Muhammad Saidam (Jordan)

Muhammad Saidam (Jordan) holds a PhD in Environment and Water Resources Engineering from Imperial College of Science Technology & Medicine â€" London (1995) and has been a Senior Researcher in the Royal Scientific Society (RSS) in Jordan since 2006. With over 25 specialized locally and internationally accredited laboratories and 500 scientists, researchers and technical support staff, RSS is the premier applied research institution, consultancy, and technical support service provider in Jordan. Dr. Saidam has over 30 years of experience in studies, consultations and research related to the fields of water, wastewater and environment and has published, as a first author, circa 50 papers and technical reports in English and Arabic. He is currently the Chief Science Officer (CSO) in RSS, with main responsibilities including strategic planning and supervising implementation of research and consultation projects in the four Applied Science Centres of RSS: Energy, Water & Environment, Sustainable Buildings, and information Technology. He previously was the Executive Director of RSS Knowledge Sector (Energy, Water, Environment & Sustainable Buildings, 2012 - 2014). He has also been an active partner in European research consortia over the period 1995-2010. Muhammad serves in the International Council for Science (ICSU) Committee on Scientific Planning and Review (CSPR) (2015-2018). Recently, he was selected to serve in the committee that will oversee a 3-year project (2016 â€" 2019) on â€œImproving Scientific Input to Global Policy Making: Strategies for Attaining the Sustainable Development Goalsâ€, organized by the Inter Academy Partnership (IAP).

Mr. David Smith (Jamaica)

David Smith (Jamaica) is Coordinator of the Institute for Sustainable Development at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University Consortium for Small Island States (UCSIS), and the Caribbean Chair for the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The institute focuses on research in Sustainable Development Governance and Policy, Disaster Management and Environmental Management. Dr Smith was an expert reviewer for the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events (SREX). He served on the Board of the Caribbean Conservation Association for five years and was President in 1995. From 1994 to 2000 he was a Regional Councilor of IUCN-The World Conservation Union and the Chair of the Business Committee of IUCNâ€™s Council as well as a member of the steering committees of the IUCN commissions on Species Survival, Protected Areas, and Communications and Education. He oversaw the development of the Jamaican Protected Areas System Plan and contributed to the National Forestry Management Plan. He has consulted on small business management and the design of environmental financing mechanisms in Jamaica, Uganda, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.

Mr. Jurgis Kazimieras Staniakis (Lithuania)

Jurgis Kazimieras Staniakis (Lithuania) is a full member of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Professor at Kaunas University of Technology and Director of the Institute of Environmental Engineering. In 1992, he was the first in Lithuania and in the former Soviet Union and one of the pioneers in Central & Eastern Europe to start developing the strategy and theory of cleaner production / pollution prevention and implementing it in industry. The methodology is based on systematic approach to problem solving, pollution prevention, environment and waste management, pollution modelling and sustainable development. He was a manager and leading expert for more than 80 international sustainable development programmes and projects implemented in Lithuania, other EU countries and a number of developing countries, delivered in cooperation with international organizations (UNEP, UNIDO, OECD, EBRD) and partners from developed countries. Prof. StaniÅ¡kis took part in elaborating a number of international and national strategies and programmes, such as the Cleaner Production Capacity Building Programme for Central and Eastern Europe (OECD), the Lithuanian White Book of Science and Technology, and the Programme of Sustainable Development of the Lithuanian Industry. In 2011, he was elected as an Executive committee member of the UNEP/UNIDO Global Network on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP-Net). He has received numerous awards, including the Lithuanian National Prize in Science, the prize of the President of the Republic of Lithuania and the Baltic Sea Award.

Mr. Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (Belgium)

Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (Belgium) is Professor of climatology and sustainable development in UniversitÃ© catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium). He also co-directs its interdisciplinary Master programme in Science and Management of the Environment. Doing research on various aspects of climate change since 1980, he has published with scientists from many disciplines. He has been involved since 1995 in IPCC activities as author and Bureau member, and was Vice-Chair of the IPCC from 2008 to 2015. Professor van Ypersele is a member of the Belgian Federal Council for Sustainable Development since 1993, and he chairs its Working Group on "Energy and Climate". He has also been science advisor in the Belgian delegations to more than twenty United Nations conferences. He has won numerous prizes and awards. He is also active on Twitter: @JPvanYpersele.

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Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) 2019

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Mr. Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue (Cameroon) Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue (Cameroon) is Professor and Department Chair of Development Sociology, Cornell University. His research in the realm of global development covers questions about the demography of inequality, the sociology of education, and the links between global population change and socioeconomic development.