Rob Vos is the Director of Gender Equity and Rural Employment Division in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. From 2005 to December 2012 he was the Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations. During that time he was the lead author and coordinator of the flagship publications World Economic and Social Survey and the World Economic Situation and Prospects. Diana Alarcón is Senior Economic Affairs Officer in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations. She was part of the team that produced the World Economic and Social Survey from 20072012 and was Senior Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank from 19972007. In the past she has worked as Director of Economics at Colegio de la Frontera Norte and has been affiliated with the International Labour Organization and several universities in Mexico and the United States. . Language: English