United Nations Secretary-General High-Level Panel on the Technology Bank for LDCs
On 26 November 2014, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the establishment of a High-Level Panel to study the scope and functions of a proposed Technology Bank dedicated to assisting the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) advance out of poverty. The Secretary-General advised panel members to “prepare practical recommendations on this important matter, which can provide a strong impetus to accelerating structural transformation and sustainable development of the LDCs.”
The High-Level Panel – which is to advise on the organizational and operational aspects of the planned Technology Bank and Science, Technology and Innovation Supporting Mechanism – will be chaired by Rwanda’s Romain Murenzi, currently Executive Director of the World Academy of Sciences in Trieste, Italy, and includes representatives from LDCs and their development partners.
Other panel members include, Mohamed Hassan of Sudan, Bruce Lehman of the United States, Tebello Nyokong of South Africa, Dorte Olesen of Denmark, Posh Raj Pandey of Nepal, Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis of Haiti, Firdausi Qadri of Bangladesh, Fang Xin of China, Hakan Karatas of Turkey, and the UN Under Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, Gyan Chandra Acharya.
For further information, please see the United Nation’s Press release here: