The division seeks to ensure inclusive growth and sustainable development through investment and enterprise development for the enhancement of productive and technological capacity-building, industrialization, economic diversification, job creation and progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
It is the focal point within the United Nations system for all issues related to investment and enterprise development. It conducts cutting-edge policy analysis, provides technical assistance and builds international consensus on investment and enterprise.
Alignment with the SDGs
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Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
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Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
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Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
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Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
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Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries.
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Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
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Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
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Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development). Investment is a cross-cutting issue for all Sustainable Development Goals.
Nan Li Collins, Director
Nan brings to this position a wealth of professional experience spanning over two decades in various strategic, management, and programmatic roles both in regional offices and at headquarters with the United Nations, and in the private sector across Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe.
She has solid expertise in promoting sustainable investments in developing countries from both public and private sector perspectives.
Nan's extensive experience includes her recent role as the Global Director of Sustainable Investments and Innovation at UNOPS, based in Helsinki, Finland, a position she has held since November 2020.
She led a global team to promote infrastructure investments in many developing countries, including energy transition and co-investing with MDBs and DFIs. She served as UNOPS focal point in the UN Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development and worked closely with top leadership in crisis management.
World Investment Report
The Report focuses on trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide, at the regional and country levels and emerging measures to improve its contribution to development.
It also provides analysis on global value chains and the operations of multinational enterprises, with special attention to their development implications.
Overviews of the report are also available in all official UN languages.
Publications list
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UNCTAD Investment and Enterprise Division: Publications List (2000-2023)
