Isabel Ortiz is a Senior Interregional Advisor at the Department for Economic and Social
Affairs at the United Nations in New York. Dr. Ortiz has over 17 years
experience in various areas of economic and social development. From 1995 to
2003 she worked at the Asian Development Bank. In 1995-99, she was Project
Economist and Manager of several infrastructure and social sector multimillion
investments for the Asian Development Bank. Later, from 1999 to 2003, she
was senior official at the Strategy and Policy Department of the Asian
Development Bank, where she founded its Poverty Unit. In 2003-05 she
undertook a number of consulting assignments for DFID, UNDP, OECD, KfW, the
World Bank and for Joseph Stiglitz's Initiative for Policy Dialogue. Prior to
this, she worked in Brussels at the European Union (1992-93), was a researcher
at the Spanish High Council of Scientific Research (CSIC, Department of
International Economics, 1993-94) and lectured on Public Policy at University
of Madrid (1994-1995). I. Ortiz is Master and Ph.D. from the London
School of Economics, and has published widely on aid, financing for
development, and poverty reduction. She has field experience in more than 30
countries of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
