CDP Chair is panelist at the 2017 ECOSOC Integration Segment

Professor Jose Antonio Ocampo, Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), participated as panelist at the ECOSOC Integration Segment on 10 May 2017. The session under the theme "Bringing the ECOSOC System Together" featured representatives of functional commissions and other subsidiary bodies of ECOSOC to address the overall theme of the 2017 session "Eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions through promoting sustainable development, expanding opportunities and addressing related challenges".

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