Bjørg Sandkjær

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Assistant Secretary General for Policy Coordination, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)

Events this person is speaking at:

Wednesday 24 September 2025

13:00 - The Future is Now: Addressing Multidimensional Poverty for Sustainable Development (UNGA 80)
Claver Gatete (Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)), Sidi Ahmed Ould Bouh (Minister of Economy and Finance, Mauritania), Yorleni León Marchena (Minister of Human Development and Social Inclusion, Costa Rica), Ali Haidar Ahmed (Minister of Higher Education, Labour and Skills Development, Maldives), Obid Khakimov (Deputy Advisor to the President, Director of Centre for Economic Research and Reforms (CERR), Uzbekistan), Paula Poblete (Undersecretary of Social Evaluation, Ministry of Social Development and Family, Chile), Claudia Maldonado (Coordinator of Evaluation and Policy, National System of Statistical and Geographical Information, Mexico), Nardos Bekele-Thomas (Chief Executive Officer, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)), Bjørg Sandkjær (Assistant Secretary General for Policy Coordination, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)), Lin Yang (Deputy Executive Secretary, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)), Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski (Director of Gender, Poverty, & Social Policy, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA))