Ms. Alka Bhatia is the UNDP Resident Representative to the Namibia country office.
Ms. Bhatia has been with UNDP since 2010. Prior to her post in Namibia, she worked in the Lesotho and Malawi country office respectively, as an Economics Advisor where she provided strategic policy advisory services to the UN Country Team and Government.
Ms. Bhatia is a national of India and has over 30 years of experience in poverty alleviation, trade, and sustainable development. She has vast experience in providing strategic policy advice on sustainable development to Governments and UN Country Teams.
Prior to joining the UNDP, Ms. Bhatia was a civil servant in her country, working on trade policy formulation, implementation, and regulation. She represented India in the WTO in Geneva during the DOHA Round of multilateral trade negotiations for 4 years. Thereafter she also served as the Economic Affairs Officer for the World Trade Organization in Geneva, where she worked on Enhanced Integrated Framework for LDCs as well as trade related development issues.
Ms. Bhatia holds a Master of Arts from the Panjab University, in Chandigarh India as well as training in International Economics and International Trade from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
She loves music, flowers, and cooking.
Ms. Bhatia can be reached at alka.bhatia@undp.org