Khalid Malik

Khalid Malik (born 17 August 1952 in Pakistan) is an international civil servant. He has a professional background in economics and has held a variety of senior management and substantive positions at the United Nations and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He is married to Carter Malik with three children and the couple lives in New York.

Academic background

Malik has studied economics and statistics at the universities of Oxford (post graduate research), Essex (MA), Cambridge (MA) and Punjab (BA) and has co-edited several books including “Capacity for Development - New Solutions to Old Problems” (2002), Lessons Learned in Crisis and Post Conflict Situations” (2002) and the 2004 Report of Development Effectiveness.

He conducted teaching and research work at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (1975) and at Pembroke College, Oxford (1974–75).

United Nations appointment

Malik was Director of the Human Development Report to the United Nations Development Programme, from 2011 until 2014. Before that he was assigned Special Advisor to UNDP Africa, after having completed his assignment as UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in China in March 2010, a position he has held for 7 years.