Michael M. Gukovsky ^People

During his professional career, Michael has been involved with pre-feasibility and feasibility studies of large infrastructure projects, including some in partnership with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Central AmericanBank for Economic Integration, the Global Infrastructure Foundation of Japan, and the Japanese Institute of Global Environmental Strategies. Over the years, hiswork fo- cused on issues related to trade, water resources, energy, transportation, inland navi- gation, and river basin development including hydroelectric power development. Michael served as manager of UNDP Operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, and later as Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the UNDP. He was UNDP's lead negotiator in establishing the Global Environment Facility and co-mana- ged ti with the World Bank and UNEP in the initial operational phase. He subse- quently served as the UNDP Executive Coordinator of the GEF. From 1992-1993, Michael served as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations and Deputy Chief of Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL). His responsibilities included facilitating conflict resolution, and implementation of the social, economic, land transfer and electoral supervision of the Chapultepec Peace Accords. He was an active participant at the Rio Earth Summit and subsequently led the UNDP delega-tions to the first Conferences of the Parties for the Biodiversity and Climate Change.