Arjun
Sengupta
Arjun
Sengupta is a former professor at the School of International
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and currently an adjunct
professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Chairman
of the Center for Development and Human Rights in New Delhi. He
is also the former UN Independent Expert on the Right to Development
and current Independent Expert on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty.
He
is Co-Director, with Professor Marks, of the Right
to Development Project at the FXB Center.
In his capacity as Independent Expert
on the Right to Development, Dr. Sengupta reported to the Open-Ended
Working Group on the Right to Development at each of its sessions
on the current state of progress in the implementation of the
right to development as a basis for a focused discussion, taking
into account, inter alia, the deliberations and suggestions of
the Working Group.
