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Sudip Ranjan Basu is an economist with over 23 years of professional experience in the United Nations system.

Sudip has been serving as the Chief of the Sustainable Business Network in the Trade, Investment, and Innovation Division of the United Nations ESCAP since July 2024.

Sudip was appointed Deputy Head of the United Nations ESCAP Pacific Office in Suva in July 2021. He most recently served as Special Assistant to the Under-Secretary-General of the UN and Executive Secretary of ESCAP in Bangkok. From 2011 to 2018, he served as an Economist in the Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division, including as Acting Chief of the Countries with Special Needs Section.

Prior to his assignment in Bangkok, Sudip worked as an Economist in the International Trade Division of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, from 2004 to 2011. He also served as a consultant for the International Labour Organisation and the World Bank from 2001 to 2004.

In academia, Sudip has held research scholar positions at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Geneva, International Food Policy Research Institute, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, and the Indian National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. He has taught postgraduate-level courses at the Graduate Institute Geneva, the summer school program of Georgetown University, and other universities in the US, UK, and Europe.

He has held notable positions, including President of the European Spring Meeting of Young Economists (2008-2011), Coordinator of the UNCTAD-led multi-agency Non-Tariff Barriers technical team, and member of the IHS Global Insight-University of Pennsylvania’s Global Outlook Committee and the UNDESA-University of Toronto Project LINK Research Group.

Sudip holds an M.A. and M.Phil. in International Trade and Development from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and a Ph.D. in International Economics from the Geneva Graduate Institute with Nobel Laureate Lawrence R. Klein as one of his thesis supervisors. He completed his undergraduate studies in Economics (Honors) at the University of Calcutta.

Sudip has authored numerous publications on global development, international trade, macroeconomic policies, finance, institutions and governance policies, emerging markets, applied econometrics, and growth forecasting models. He has contributed to over 40 UN reports and written more than 50 research and policy articles in various academic journals, edited books, and other outlets.

Sudip is extensively engaged in policy formulation, research, analysis, and advocacy in sustainable development. As a policy advisor, he has a proven ability to influence and implement development strategies, managing global, regional, subregional, multi-country, and multi-agency projects to promote inclusive and resilient economic growth. Sudip is also an adept communicator with significant experience in knowledge sharing and consensus building.

Sudip has been advising numerous governments, multi-stakeholders, as well as global, regional, national, and international agencies on international economic and financing policies.