Mr. Rouben Indjikian
Head of E-Finance, Electronic Commerce Branch
UNCTAD
Palais des Nations
Genève 10, CH 1211
Switzerland

Dr. Rouben Indjikian is the Head of E-Finance and Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the Electronic Commerce Branch in United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. He joined UNCTAD in 1982. His current duties in UNCTAD include research, policy recommendations and technical assistance to governments and other entities in the area of e-commerce and e-finance. He is one of the leading authors of the annual UNCTAD E-Commerce and Development Report, the main UN publication on this topical subject. Since 1999 he has also prepared numerous UNCTAD and other publications on e-commerce and development. With the support of funds from the UN 'Development Account' he organised an UNCTAD Expert Meeting and other regional events on e-finance and development.

His previous papers on development and transition economics covered such issues as price and trade liberalization, monetary and fiscal policies in the context of macroeconomic stabilization, institution building especially in the financial sector, privatization, foreign trade and payments arrangements and external finance. He was one of the 1990 award winners in a prestigious annual AMEX Bank Review Essay Competition in International Economics and Financial Markets in London. His prize winning essay has been devoted to the issues of currency convertibility and payments arrangements in a transition economy He is a regular speaker at many major international conferences on e-commerce, e-finance as well as transition economy issues.