At its 4th plenary meeting, on 16 December 2024, the Economic and Social Council, in accordance with its resolutions 1998/46 and 1998/47 of 31 July 1998, appointed the following 24 experts, nominated by the Secretary- General, as members of the Committee for Development Policy for a three-year term of office beginning on 1 January 2025: Sabina Alkire (United States of America), Carlos Alvarado (Costa Rica), Debapriya Bhattacharya (Bangladesh), Ha-Joon Chang (Republic of Korea), George Essegbey (Ghana), Ahmed Galal (Egypt), Arunabha Ghosh (India), Trudi Hartzenberg (South Africa), Jibrin Ibrahim (Nigeria), Anne-Laure Kiechel (France), Carlos Lopes (Guinea-Bissau), Nyovani Janet Madise (Malawi), Patricia Miranda (Plurinational State of Bolivia), Keith Nurse (Trinidad and Tobago), José Antonio Ocampo Gaviria (Colombia), Izumi Ohno (Japan), Åsa Persson (Sweden), Cristelle Pratt (Fiji), Annalisa Prizzon (Italy), Taffere Tesfachew (Ethiopia), Kori Udovicki (Serbia), Rolph van der Hoeven (Kingdom of the Netherlands), Natalya Volchkova (Russian Federation) and Xufeng Zhu (China).