M. F. MONTES

Senior Advisor on Finance and Development, The South Centre (Geneva, Switzerland), Doctor of Economics. He was previously Chief of Develop­ ment Strategies, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; UNDP Regional Programme Coordinator, Asia Pacific Trade and Investment Initiative based at the Regional Centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka; Programme Officer for International Economic Policy at the Ford Foundation in New York, 1999–2005; Coordinator for economics studies at the East-West Centre in Honolulu, 1989–1999; and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of The Philippines, 1981–1989. His publications have been in macroeconomic policy, development strategy, income inequality, climate change financing and industrial policy. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.