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Christian Oldiges is Senior Economic Affairs Officer at UN ESCWA, Beirut. Before joining ESCWA, he served as Policy Specialist at UNDP, New York and was Director of Policy Research at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. As a trained Development Economist, during 10 years at OPHI, he led multiple initiatives to develop national poverty measures together with governments in South Asia and Africa. In his research, he examined welfare effects of India’s employment guarantee act, trends in multidimensional poverty reduction as well as interlinkages between multidimensional poverty and migration and armed conflict. He studied Economics at Heidelberg University, Hindu College and the Delhi School of Economics (Delhi University) and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Heidelberg University.