Aniket Ghai is a Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States. Prior to that he worked in UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Executive Office, and before that was Policy Advisor to the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. He designed and rolled out the UN’s climate neutral strategy. He was part of the secretariats of the Rio Earth Summit (UNCED) and the UNFCCC. He has advised international organizations, governments and NGOs on trade, sustainable development and climate change. He was educated at Oxford University, UK, and Columbia University, New York, USA.