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Appointment of new Director of UNCTAD's Division on Technology and Logistics

07 June 2016

Mukhisa Kituyi Secretary-General UNCTAD is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Shamika Sirimanne as Director, Division on Technology and Logistics, D2, in UNCTAD. She will be joining UNCTAD shortly.

Ms. Sirimanne brings to this position extensive experience in development policy, research and technical cooperation gained from international organizations, national governments, think tanks and universities.

At present, Ms. Sirimanne serves as the Director of ICT and Disaster Risk Reduction Division at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) where she has spearheaded major regional cooperation programmes.

Among them are the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway initiative for seamless broadband connectivity, Regional Drought Mechanism for monitoring and early warning of drought through space technology applications, and the United Nations Network of Experts for Paperless Trade (UNNExT) initiated in collaboration with UN Economic Commission for Europe.

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quoteThis was a highly competitive and robust selection process and I was most impressed with the high quality of the candidates who expressed interest in the position and joining the UNCTAD management teamQuote
Mukhisa Kituyi
Secretary-General UNCTAD
 

During her tenure with ESCAP, Ms. Sirimanne has also served as the Secretary of the Commission, headed the trade facilitation programme, and led the macroeconomic policy work and ESCAP's flagship publication, Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific.

Prior to that Ms. Sirimanne was with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) where she led the economic policy team and the Economic Report on Africa, the flagship publication of ECA.  Ms. Sirimanne has also worked for the Canadian Department of Finance and the World Bank.

Ms. Sirimanne is a Sri Lankan-Canadian and holds a PhD in Economics. She is married and has one daughter.