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Ms. Heather Taylor-Strauss

Economic Affairs Officer, Investment and Enterprise Development Section, Trade, Investment and Innovation Division, UNESCAP · International Organizations and Civil Society
Ms. Heather Taylor-Strauss
Ms. Heather Taylor-Strauss
Economic Affairs Officer, Investment and Enterprise Development Section, Trade, Investment and Innovation Division, UNESCAP · International Organizations and Civil Society
OUTWARD FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

Policies to support firm investment and maximize home country sustainable development

Speaking

20 October 2021
09:00–10:30 · Geneva time

Heather Taylor-Strauss is Economic Affairs Officer, Investment and Enterprise Development Section, Trade, Investment and Innovation Division of the UNESCAP. She leads UNESCAP’s research and policy advisory work on FDI. She has also worked in the Office of the Executive Secretary and the Macroeconomic Policy division in UNESCAP. Prior UNESCAP, she worked at the Asian Development Bank and held researcher positions at Goethe University, Trinity College, and the Sadar Patel Institute for Economic and Social Research. At these institutions she led 4 projects and authored several publications on outward FDI. She holds a PhD from Goethe University (Germany).

International Organizations and Civil Society