
COVID-19 threatens Africa's ability to achieve SDGs
SciDev.net asked me a few questions and featured my responses in an article on COVID-19's effects on Africa's attainment of the SDGs.
I have a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide and a Graduate Certificate in Public Policy from Flinders University. I am currently (since 2015) working for the United Nations, having started with UNCTAD and now at the Economic Commission for Africa. Prior to that, I was an economics consultant at EY and an analyst at the Australian Energy Regulator.
SciDev.net asked me a few questions and featured my responses in an article on COVID-19's effects on Africa's attainment of the SDGs.
Countries that are meeting the Maputo Protocol committment of spending 10 per cent of their budgets on agriculture don't seem to be making a lot more progress in the agricultural sector than other countries.
In October 2016 I joined the UNDP, UN-DESA, and UN-OHRLLS as UNCTAD's representative on a mission to Angola, to support that country in planning its transition out of the LDC category. Angola has a number of understandable concerns about its graduation from the LDCs, but with suitable planning, the transition in 2021 can be minimally disruptive.