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Kemal Derviş

Kemal Derviş
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Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
In office
15 August 2005 – 28 February 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Preceded by Mark Malloch Brown
Succeeded by Helen Clark
Minister of Economic Affairs
In office
3 March 2001 – 10 August 2002
Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit
Preceded by Recep Önal
Succeeded by Masum Türker
Personal details
Born (1949-01-10) 10 January 1949 (age 68)
Istanbul, Turkey
Political party Republican People's Party
Spouse(s) Catherine Derviş
Alma mater London School of Economics
Princeton University

Kemal Derviş (Turkish pronunciation: [keˈmal deɾviʃ]; born 10 January 1949) is a Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme. He was honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development assistance policy through the United Nations." In 2005, he was ranked 67th in the Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll conducted by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines. He is Vice President and Director of the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution and part-time professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

In March 2015, Derviş agreed to become the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey responsible for the economy in a cabinet led by Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu should his party form the government after the general election to be held in June. He declined to become a Member of Parliament however, stating that he would prefer to participate in the cabinet from outside the Parliament. He is therefore the first and remains the only shadow minister in Turkey.

Kemal Derviş was born on 10 January 1949 in Istanbul, Turkey, to a Turkish father and a Dutch-German mother. From his father's side, he is a descendant of Ottoman Grand Vizier Halil Hamid Pasha (1736–1785); and of Ottoman military physician Asaf Derviş Pasha (1868–1928) who is regarded as the founder of modern gynaecology in Turkey.


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