To the members of the DAC CSO Reference Group,
Your June 3 open letter raises several issues related to international development cooperation and the role of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee, some of which are slightly off the mark.
Let me first briefly recall the actual mandate and role of the Development Assistance Committee — what the DAC is and what it is not.
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Carsten Staur
Carsten Staur has been the chair of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee since 2023. He previously served as Denmark’s ambassador to the OECD and UNESCO in Paris from 2018 to 2023, and before that as his country’s ambassador to the United Nations — in New York from 2007 to 2013, and in Geneva from 2013 to 2018. He was Denmark’s state secretary for international development cooperation from 2001 to 2007.
