Industrial Development for the 21st Century

David O'Connor is Chief of the Policy Integration and Analysis Branch of the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development in the Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). Before joining the UN, he worked for a decade and a half at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Centre in Paris. In addition to contributing many professional journal articles and book chapters, he is author of Managing the Environment with Rapid Industrialization: Lessons from the East Asian Experience. He holds degrees from Yale, Wisconsin, Stanford and London universities.Monica Kjollerstrom is a Sustainable Development Affairs Officer at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) in New York. Prior to that, she worked for the Agricultural Development Unit of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in Santiago, Chile. Before joining the United Nations, Ms. Kjollerstrom worked for the Embassy of Portugal in the United States as deputy economic counselor and as a researcher at the Portuguese Ministry of Planning. She holds a degree in Economics from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a Master of Science in Agricultural Economics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.