Kishan Khoday, PhD is Resident Representative at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Multi-Country Office in Jamaica, from where he represents UNDP in the Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. He has been with the United Nations for 25 years, with past assignments in China, India, Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. He has led over US$1 billion of local grant initiatives to combat poverty and inequality, enhance systems of governance and justice, expand action on climate change and ecosystems, and build resilience to crisis and displacement. An international lawyer and scientist, Kishan has also been a thought leader, authoring over fifty publications in UN and academic journals on social justice, the planetary crisis, decoloniality, and the need to rethink development paradigms. He has served as a lead author and contributor to UNDPs Human Development Reports, has served as a Visiting Scholar on Socio-Ecological Systems and Human Security at Columbia University in New York, as a Research Fellow on China and the World at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
