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Place of Birth: Istanbul, Turkey
About Kemal Derviş
- Kemal Dervis (Turkish pronunciation: [ke'mal de?vi?]; born 10 January 1949) is a Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme.
- He was honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development assistance policy through the United Nations".
- In 2005, he was ranked 67th in the Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll conducted by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines.
- He is Vice President and Director of the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution and part-time professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.In March 2015, Dervis agreed to become the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey responsible for the economy in a cabinet led by Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kiliçdaroglu should his party form the government after the general election to be held in June.
- He declined to become a Member of Parliament however, stating that he would prefer to participate in the cabinet from outside the Parliament.
- He is therefore the first and remains the only shadow minister in Turkey.
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