Mr. Stephen Browne, a British national, joined ITC as its Deputy Executive Director in March 2006.Trained as an international economist at the Universities of Cambridge and Paris, Mr. Browne began his career as a consultant in London with the Economist Intelligence Unit before joining the United Nations.

He was employed first as a researcher at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. He then spent 23 years with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with assignments at headquarters in New York and in Thailand, Somalia, Ukraine and Rwanda. He was the first UN Representative in Ukraine, heading a unified office serving that served the UN system as a whole.During his appointment in Rwanda, four years after the genocide,he was mainly concerned with organizing UN assistance in the post-conflict transition from a humanitarian to a development phase. At the time of his assignment, it was UNDP’s largest country office (160 people) in a country with 1,500 UN staff from various agencies.

At headquarters in New York,he served in various capacities, including Director in charge of economic and social policy, including trade and globalization issues. His last post was Head of Policy and Programmes at the UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok.

Mr. Browne is the author of Aid and Influence (Earthscan, 2006) and has published four other books on aid and development and over 100 chapters and articles on development topics. He is a regular participant in international conferences on globalization and other issues.