KHALID MALIK

Khalid Malik is a development practitioner with extensive experience. Educated as an economist at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex and Punjab, he has held a variety of key managerial, technical and policy positions in UNDP both in the field and at headquarters.

He served as Director of the UNDP Evaluation Office and the Chair of the UN Interagency Group on Evaluation in New York where he has been instrumental in the introduction of results-based management in UNDP, a critical factor in the reform of the organization. Together with the World Bank and key bilateral organizations, he has contributed to the global debate on development effectiveness of aid agencies initiating inter-alia an annual UNDP Development Effectiveness Report.

He served from 1993 to 1997 as UN Representative in Uzbekistan covering both development and humanitarian operations where he encouraged cultural revival and social transformation efforts and specifically, supported new laws on the creation of NGOs and protection of women rights. He played a leadership role in securing agreement between the five central Asian states and their neighbors on a regional trade and transit agreement, and facilitating road link between Tashkent and Kashkar (China) as part of an initiative to revive the Silk Road.

Khalid has been appointed as UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in China since August 2003.