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October 12, 2007
Debapriya Bhattacharya, Former CGD Visiting Fellow, Now Bangladesh Representative At WTO
Posted by Kimberly Ann Elliott at 10:55 AM
Congratulations to former CGD Visiting Fellow (via the Fulbright Scholar Program) Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya for his appointment as Bangladesh's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization. At the WTO, Dr. Bhattacharya will no doubt continue to work on issues that he was working on while at the Center, albeit as an advocate for his government rather than as an academic. During Deb's visit I had the pleasure of co-authoring an issue brief with him on Bangladesh's adjustment to the phase-out of textile and apparel quotas. He will also no doubt want to address the tariff peaks on US imports that hit his country particularly hard. He is going to Geneva during a particularly difficult time, with prospects of a Doha revival fading fast. We here at the Center wish our former colleague the best in his new position.
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We are proud of Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, with whom I was familiar while he was Executive Director of the Centre of Policy Dialogue in Bangladesh, with his new position at WTO. We expect his active role at WTO certainly help improving the balance of trade of Bangladesh in the context of global economy thereby accelerate economic development of Bangladesh and its position in the world.
Posted by: Dr Bhakti Majumder at March 16, 2008 07:48 AM