The United Nations High-level Advisory Board (HLAB) on Economic and Social Affairs was established in June 2018 to help strengthen United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) in the context of the United Nations development system reform and as a key part of efforts to enhance the United Nations’s support to Member States in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Board also, through its twice annual meetings, provided advice to the United Nations on broad economic and social issues, including near term prospects and risks of the world economy, frontier technologies, inequality, migration, issues associated with countries in special situation as well as the implications of these issues for multilateralism and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Over the course of the last two year, the HLAB has deliberated on many contemporary and cross-cutting issues and challenges. The interventions and insights of the Board have greatly inspired the United Nations to break new grounds in policy research.
This volume is envisaged as the legacy of the HLAB to advancing the sustainable development agenda over the course of its first two-year term. It is scheduled to be launched in late July 2020 after the 2020 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.