Christian Oldiges

Functional Title: Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Project Coordinator Multidimensional Poverty
Institution: ESCWA - Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Email Address: christian.oldiges@un.org
Phone Number: +961 1 978 712

Bio
Christian Oldiges is Senior Economic Affairs Officer at UN ESCWA, Beirut, where he is project coordinator on supporting Member States to build and employ new measures of multidimensional and monetary poverty. As a trained Development Economist, he has more than 15 years of experience in public policy advocacy and poverty measurement. Before joining ESCWA, he served as Policy Specialist at UNDP/BPPS, New York and was Director of Policy Research at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. During 10 years at OPHI, he led multiple initiatives to develop national poverty measures together with governments in South Asia and Africa. In postdoctoral research at Oxford, he studied multidimensional poverty reduction in India, the interlinkages of poverty with migration and armed conflict, the welfare effects of workfare programs, and the measurement of food security. His works are published in the Journal of Development Economics, World Development, the Journal of International Development, Migration Studies, International Political Science Review, and in two Oxford University Press book chapters. He holds a PhD in Economics from Heidelberg University, Germany.

Social

Years of experience 11-15 Years
Additional fields of expertise: Employment guarantee, public works, food security, applied development economics

Economic

Years of experience 11-15 Years
Economic field: Economic Modeling
Additional fields of expertise: applied development economics, econometrics for programme evaluation

SDGs Expertise:
GOAL 1: No Poverty
GOAL 2: Zero Hunger
GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-being
GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
GOAL 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal


Countries of Expertise:
Arab region


  • Capacity building
  • Data analysis
  • Programming
  • Project management
  • Strategic planning
  • Team management
Degree Title University Graduation Date
Doctorate in Economics University of Heidelberg, Germany 2016-11-30
Title Completion Date
Executive Education Leaders Programme: University of Oxford 2022-05-13
Title URL Author/Co-Author
The Welfare Effects of India's Rural Employment Guarantees https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387822000256?dgcid=author Co-Author
Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty in Cameroon: Measurements, Determinants and Policy Implications, in Monga, CĂ©lestin (ed), 2022 https://academic.oup.com/migration/advance-article/doi/10.1093/migration/mnaa022/5896175?guestAccessKey=0b45a989-844b-4309-bbde-1224e8efcb5b Co-Author
Does Workfare Work? India's Employment Guarantee during COVID-19 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jid.3583 Co-Author
Examining Multidimensional Poverty Reduction in India 2005/6-2015/16: Insights and Oversights of the Headcount Ratio https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X21000668 Co-Author
In Quest of a Better Life: International Labour Migration and the Many Forms of Poverty https://academic.oup.com/migration/advance-article/doi/10.1093/migration/mnaa022/5896175?guestAccessKey=0b45a989-844b-4309-bbde-1224e8efcb5b Co-Author