Taimur Khilji

= participant in the Asia Commons Deep Dive workshop

Bio

Taimur currently works for the UNDP in the Asia-Pacific Regional Centre in Bangkok. He has been with UNDP since 2003 in various capacities.

Presently, he is a Policy Specialist advising governments in Asia on economic planning/policy formulation. His areas of specialization are economic and social inequality, social protection and food security and climate change.

Previously, as a speechwriter to the Asia Pacific Bureau Director (Assistant Secretary General) at UNDP Headquarters from 2003-2008 he covered a range of topics including MDGs, Trade, Private Sector Development.

He also worked as a Inequality Specilaist in Sri Lanka at UNDP's Regional Centre in Colombo from 2008-2010; he led the work on social and economic inequality in Asia, the research effort culminated in a book of country case studies.

Prior to joining UNDP, Taimur founded two primary level school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan for children that were previously working as bonded labor in brick kilns.

He holds a BA degree in Philosophy and Mathematics from Williams College (MA, USA) and Oxford University (Oxford, UK) and an MA in Economics from the New School University (New York, USA). He maintains a regular blog on the UN-wide Teamworks (an external 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. They can be found on https://undp.unteamworks.org/node/12651/list?type_1[0]=blog