Eduardo Doryan - International Career

International Career

Mr. Doryan served from 1999 to 2001 as Vice President for Human Development at the World Bank where he was responsible for overseeing the Bank’s operations in education, health, nutrition, population and social protection (pensions, unemployment and other social assistance). During that time, he was an active member of The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health sponsored by the World Health Organization.

At that same rank within the World Bank’s hierarchy, he assumed from 2001 to 2005 the position of Special Representative to the United Nations. Mr. Doryan was charged with advancing the new agenda of the World Bank at the time of building common ground with the United Nations and other key partners to advance the global development agenda. He was involved in the Bank’s engagement in the United Nations Conference on Financing for Development that took place in Monterrey, Mexico in March 2002, in the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg, South Africa in August 2002 and in the first part of World Summit on the Information Society held in Geneva in December 2003.

He was also active in following-up the Millennium Development Goals and their implications for the way the Bank and the United Nations partners to do their business both at the global and national levels. Mr. Doryan also had oversight responsibility of the broad policy relationship between the Bank and the intergovernmental processes at the United Nations, including the Economic and Social Council, the General Assembly and the Security Council, as well as with the United Nations agencies, programs and funds. He followed closely the process leading to the 2005 World Summit.