Topics: Education, International Development, Sustainability, Peacebuilding
Regions: Africa
Robert founded USAID's Office of Evaluation and was founding chair of evaluation for the OECD's Development Assistance Committee. He was the first Senior Fellow of the Overseas Development Council. He was President and Chair of the International Development Conference, then the largest forum on international development in the U.S. with a board of 120 leaders of development. In preparation for the Rio Summit he advised the leaders of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature on public administration implications of environment. He authored the main U.S. background paper of the World Summit on Sustainable Development. He helped train the top 300 UN officials in strategic planning and human resource management. He was senior advisor for various UN groupings, e.g., the World Summit for Children (the first summit on development), the World Education Forum consisting on the world's education ministers, and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (1995-2005) where he helped in the most thorough reform of any part of the UN.
As senior advisor to UNDP he proposed and authored the first UN system-wide program initiative, the second being the Millennium Development Goals. He has also been senior advisor to the World Federation of United Nations Associations.
He is active in the field of peacebuilding, having chaired the Alliance for Peacebuilding, and is a current board member of Business Plan for Peace (Oxford). He is a Distinguished Fellow of The Stimson Center and a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science
Robert Berg
Member of the Board
Business Plan for Peace, Oxford
