Mr. Lenni Montiel is Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). Mr. Montiel has held strategic positions within the Government of Venezuela and in several international organizations, systematically involved in policy making and analytical work on issues related to economic and social development. Mr. Montiel was previously Director of Economic, Social and Development Affairs in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-Moon; United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Turkmenistan. He worked also as Senior Global Policy Adviser on Governance in UNDP. In Venezuela Mr. Montiel worked as Director of Social Policy in the Ministry of Planning; Director of Planning in the Ministry of Social Affairs; and was also Technical Assistant to the Director for Venezuela and Panama at the Executive Board of Directors of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC in the USA.