Igor Paunovic is a senior economist with degrees from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and the New School for Social Research, New York City, USA.
Mr. Paunovic is currently with UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) in Geneva working on issues related to global governance, climate change and development strategies, industrial and fiscal policy, South-South cooperation and regional integration. He is also Chief of the Climate and Development Strategy Unit. At UNCTAD, he earlier worked on economic challenges of the Least Developed Countries. Earlier, he was Chief of the Economic Development Unit of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Mexico. Before that, Mr. Paunovic worked on fiscal issues and structural reforms in Latin American and the Caribbean countries at UN ECLAC in Santiago, Chile. At the beginning of his career, he worked as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Zagreb, Croatia