Dr Rajan Sudesh Ratna is working as an Economic Affairs Officer in South and South-West Office of UN ESCAP, New Delhi since August 2018. He worked in Trade, Investment and Innovation Division of UN ESCAP, Bangkok from July 2012 to August 2018. He has been working in the areas of research, policy advisory and capacity building on economic, environment and social pillars of sustainable development goals. He has also been providing technical assistance to ESCAP members in formulating development-oriented trade and investment policies and how to successfully negotiate trade and investment agreements.   During 2008 to 2010, he worked as Professor and Head, Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. Dr Ratna is a former civil servant and worked for 25 years in the Government of India, mostly in the Ministry of Commerce handling trade policy issues and trade negotiations in WTO and FTAs. He negotiated the Uruguay and Doha Round negotiations in WTO and India’s Free Trade Agreements.  He also formulated India’s Foreign Trade Policy and the Duty-Free Quota Free Scheme for LDCs.  He has written many books on WTO, Regional Trade Agreements; Trade Facilitation and Poverty Reduction; Rules of Origin; Mainstreaming Gender through Trade Policy; has contributed chapters in several edited books and published several papers in peer reviewed journals.