Welcome to the United Nations
(and Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy)
The Development Policy Branch (DPB) manages capacity development activities and provides assistance to countries through research, training and workshops. Its focus is on providing development-oriented policy advice based on the use of quantitative modelling tools with respect to the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development and on improving capacities of least developed countries (LDCs) to prepare for graduation from the LDC category.
The Branch serves as the Secretariat for the Committee for Development Policy (CDP). It provides substantive and administrative assistance to the Committee. It services the meetings of the CDP; undertakes quantitative and qualitative analyses in support of the CDP’s work; collects and disseminates data, in particular on LDCs in support of the CDP’s triennial review of the category; and supports the CDP in its interactions with, and reporting to, the Economic and Social Council. The CDP secretariat can be contacted at cdp@un.org.
Matthias Bruckner, is Acting Chief of the Development Policy Branch and Acting Secretary of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP). He has worked for over ten years in the Secretariat of CDP, an independent expert body advising the Economic and Social Council on a wide range of development policy issues and making recommendations on the list of least developed countries (LDCs). During his almost 20 years with the United Nations at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, he has worked on a wide range of issues, including identifying LDCs, productive capacity, vulnerability to economic and environmental shocks, development metrics and indicators, sustainable development strategies, and multilateral and regional trade policy. Before joining the UN, he was senior research fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies in Bonn, Germany, conducting research on monetary and fiscal policy. He holds a Doctorate in economics from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. |
