Keiji Inoue is currently Senior Economic Affairs Officer and Officer in Charge of the International Trade and Integration Division at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. He started his career at the United Nations in 1995 as a fiscal policy expert in the Economic Development Division at ECLAC. From 2002 to 2014, he served as the macroeconomic analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Development Policy Analysis Division in the Department for Economic and Social Affairs at United Nations Headquarters. From 2008, he served as coordinator of the Secretary-General’s Millennium Development Goals Task Force analysing and monitoring Goal 8, to establish a global partnership for development, along with over 30 United Nations agencies and international financial institutions. He holds a Master of Arts in International Economics and Development Studies from Sophia University in Japan and a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University in the United States.