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Dr. Justin Ram

Director of Economics Department

Caribbean Development Bank

Ilka Ritter

Associate Expert

International Tax Cooperation Section Financing for Development Office,

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Justin Ram is currently Director of Economics at the Caribbean Development Bank. His

specialisations are in energy, and development economics.

He has previously worked as Senior Global Economist with WorleyParsons, as an economist with

the United Kingdom’s (UK) Government’s Department for Transport and as Supervisory Economist

with the Greater London Authority. Justin has also been a Class Teacher at the London School of

Economics and Political Science and was Lecturer in Economics at the University of the West

Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. He has also worked as a consultant on many oil and

gas and energy-related projects in Central Asia and Africa and with the World Bank, United

Nations and the International Labour Organization.

Justin has a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, he also holds an

. in Economics from the University College London,

. in Economics from The University of

the West Indies and a Post Graduate Certificate in sustainable environmental management from

the University of California, Berkeley.

Miss Ilka Ritter is currently Associate Expert in the International Tax Cooperation Unit of the UN’s

Financing for Development Office, working in particular on transfer pricing issues and the taxation

of the extractive industries. In her previous functions, she advised foreign ministries and

parliamentarians on taxation and governance issues while working for German Technical

Cooperation and the European Commission. Previous to obtaining a Master in Public Policy, Ilka

Ritter studied for a

. in International Business Studies and a B.A. in European Studies both at

University Maastricht. Ilka Ritter holds various scholarships, inter alia from the German National

Academic Foundation and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

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