Taimur Khilji

= participant in the Asia Commons Deep Dive workshop

Bio

Taimur works for the UNDP in the Asia-Pacific Regional Centre in Bangkok:

"I currently work as a Policy Specialist advising governments in Asia on economic planning/policy formulation. My areas of specialization are economic and social inequality, social protection and food security and climate change. I've been with UNDP since 2003 in various capacities. As a speechwriter to the Asia Pacific Bureau Director (Assistant Secretary General) at UNDP Headquarters from 2003-2008, In Sri Lanka as an Inequality Specialist at UNDP's Regional Centre in Colombo from 2008-2010; i worked on leading the work on social and economic inequality in Asia, the research effort culminating a book of country case studies.

Prior to joining UNDP I founded two primary level school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan for children that were previously working as bonded labor in brick kilns. I hold a BA degree in Philosophy and Mathematics from Williams College (USA) and Oxford University (UK) and an MA in Economics from the New School University in New York, USA. I maintain a regular blog on the UN-wide Teamworks (an internal knowledge sharing platform) on issues related to development. Recently posts have been on UN Reform, Inequality, Social Justice, and the vocabulary and rhetoric of development."