Thematic Solution Forum 2

Mr. Magdy Martínez-Solimán is Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, and UNDP’s Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support. Prior to this appointment he was the Deputy Director, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP.

He is a lawyer by training, a former practicing barrister and Assistant Professor of International Law. He has worked and written on Political Systems and provided legal counseling in Constitutional and Administrative Law.

In his professional career, he has been State Secretary for Youth in the Spanish National Government, CEO of two public corporations and member of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games in Barcelona 92. He was also Deputy Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office, in charge of relations with the Parliament of Andalusia, and elected member of the Municipal Council of his hometown Malaga, the fourth city of the country.

Mr. Martínez-Solimán has been working for the UN for 20 years, focusing on electoral assistance, public financial management, democratic transitions and national dialogue. He was posted in Burundi, Togo, Bangladesh and Senegal. He was UNDP’s Senior Governance Adviser for the 18 West African countries from 2000 to 2003, and until 2006, he was the Practice Manager of UNDP’s Democratic Governance Team at Headquarters. That year he was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as the first Executive Director of the UN Democracy Fund.

From January 2008 until February 2012, he was the UN Resident Coordinator in Mexico and UNDP’s Resident Representative. He is UNDP’s senior focal point for the 2030 Agenda and the Co-Chair of the UN Development Group’s SDG Task Force. Mr. Martínez-Solimán initiated his Law Studies at the University Complutense of Madrid, holds a degree in Law (Juris Doctor) from the Universidad de Malaga and has been a Member of the Spanish Bar Association since 1984.

Mr. Enda Ginting is an Advisor at the Executive Office of the President of Indonesia working on Priority Program Management. His overall focus in on improving government business processes whilst also working on specific sectors such as the sustainable environmental financing portfolio, fiscal reforms and the government’s community driven development program. Prior to this Enda worked for the World Bank as a Public Financial Management resident advisor for the Government of Indonesia. Enda has also worked for the Ministry of Finance, office of the Treasury and also the budget office during the ministry’s early reform stages. Enda holds a Master’s in Economics, Finance and Management from the University of Bristol, UK.

Mr. Tao Sun is a Senior Director at Ant Financial (Alibaba Group). His recent research focuses on systemic risks and prudential regulation framework, global liquidity and capital flows, spillovers to EM countries, asset prices, Sovereign Wealth Funds, capital flow management, macroprudential policies, capital account liberalization, inclusive finance, and internet finance. Before joining Ant Financial, he worked for the International Monetary Fund as Senior Economist in which he produced the semi-annual Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR). He was also a member of the China Financial Stability Assessment Program (FSAP). He started his career at the People’s Bank of China in which he worked on the development of the annual China Financial Stability Reports and quarterly Monetary Policy Reports. Mr. Sun has a Ph.D. in Economics.

Dr. Eddie Mukooyo is a Public Health and Information Specialist working as Assistant Commissioner Health Services. He is a champion for establishing HMIS in Uganda and transforming it to digital /electronic system, training and mentoring national and district staff in the District Health Information Software (DHIS2) and the Medicines tracking using mobile application (mTRAC). He has pioneered the integration of score cards and use of bottleneck analysis for evidence based planning and management of the health services adopted for tracking performance and promoting mutual accountability and effective governance.

Dr. Mukooyo has published widely including on the reliability and validity of the Performance of Routine Information System Management framework and tools; and served as board member on the Advisory Boards of Routine Health Information System Network (RHINO) Washington, DC, USA and was Chair of the Uganda Health Worker Force Advisory Board [2005 – 2008]; member of the Steering Committee of the International Development Evaluation Association, Washington, DC, USA which is affiliated to the World Bank and Measure and Evaluation John Snow Inc. Washington, DC, USA. He has worked closely with bilateral and multilateral donors such USAID, DFID, JICA, WHO, UNICEF, World Vision, Global Fund and the World Bank.

He holds a Master of. Science Degree in Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio – USA – 1994; M.B., Ch. B. Degree from Makerere University Medical School, Kampala, Uganda – 1983 and a Postgraduate Diploma in African Leadership in ICT and the Knowledge Society – Dublin City University, Ireland – 2015.

Mrs. Laetitia Sarra Jabeur is Chief Engineer in Public Service Administration at the National Institute of Statistics since February 2005. Since then, she has been assigned to the Office of Development of Computer Applications for Statistics.

She progressively held the position of Head of the Department for “Distributed Computer Operations and Communication Networks”, and Deputy Director for “Development of Computer Applications for Statistics. Mrs. Jabeur contributed to various work at the National Institute of Statistics, including development of applications for data collection (PC, tablet) for social surveys, pre-enumeration, census, etc.

Mr. Ibrahim Oral Emül has been leading the Big Data and Business Intelligence practice at Turkish Airlines since 2010. He has a degree in Control and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Istanbul and holds an Executive MBA from RMIT Australia, with the focus on leadership and management practices.

Being a certified PMP professional, Mr. Emül gained and applied his comprehensive knowledge by working on international IT Strategy and Transformation projects including software development, sales and BI, CRM, ERP and WEB projects. He has intense leadership and management expertise in creating and implementing IT strategies on various industries including banking, manufacturing, telecom and transportation. In all his endeavors, he applied ISO, QPI, ITIL, TDWI, TOGAF and PMBOK standards accordingly.

He has completed more than 500 different BI projects in various sizes. Serving more than 5,000 users, his teams are responsible for BI, Big Data, ODS, ETL, Data Warehouse, Data Analyses, Integration, Modelling, Governance, Reporting and Analytics from end to end IT practice.

He also contributed to many training programs and conferences internationally in Malaysia, Australia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Vietnam, USA and UK. He is also a member and founder of the Innovation and Informatics Society based in Istanbul. İbrahim Emül is married with two children.

Mr. Galer Lilian is currently the Head of the Statistical Methods Division at the National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova. He has extensive experience in sampling and statistical inference for business and household surveys, and some experience in statistical data linkage. He was involved in Post Enumeration Survey for Moldovan Population and Housing Census in 2014 (PHC 2014). During the quality assessment of the PHC 2014, he used data related to electricity consumption in estimation of the coverage of the census. He is currently working with UNDP to establish a model to estimate population using the electricity consumption.

Brenda Killen is Deputy Director of OECD’s Development Co-operation Directorate, driving efforts to improve policy-making, delivery, monitoring and accountability of global development finance. She works with partners around the world to ensure development resources are allocated and delivered in support of the SDGs. As OECD’s envoy to the post-2015 process and G20 Development Working Group, she helped translate Agenda 2030 into OECD’s action plan on the SDGs.

Ms. Killen has over 25 years’ experience in international development. As Deputy Director of Health Policy, Development and Services at WHO, she was responsible for defining WHO’s development policy, advising on the macroeconomics of health and developing WHO’s strategy for health systems strengthening. She has also worked for the UK Department for International Development in several senior roles, including as senior economist for Asia and lead author of DfID’s policy on middle income countries. She has extensive field experience in Africa.

Ms. Killen is a member of the UN Secretary General’s Independent Accountability Panel (EWEC).