Mr. Nikhil Seth Director United Nations Office for Economic and Social Council Support and Coordination

Nikhil Seth is currently the Director of the Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination. Prior to joining DESA, he was Secretary of ECOSOC and the Second Committee for three years. He joined the United Nations in 1993 as Special Assistant and Chief of Office to the Under-Secretary-General in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). He was a delegate to and helped in the organization of various UN conferences and summits including the Rio Summit on Environment and Development, the Copenhagen Summit on Social Development, the Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development, the Mauritius Conference on Small Island Developing States and the UN World Summit.

He joined the Indian diplomatic service in 1980 after studies in economics and a brief stint as a lecturer in economics at the University of Delhi. His diplomatic assignments included Geneva, DRC, Central African Republic, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, as well as the Permanent Mission of India, New York.

In his current assignment, he guided the work of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) strengthening leading up to the 2007 Substantive Session where the Council has implemented several of the new mandates given to it including for Annual Ministerial Review of the Millennium Development goals and the launch of the Development Cooperation Forum.