Pedro Conceição is the Director of the Human Development Report Office at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Before this role, he served as the Director of Strategic Policy at the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, and as Chief Economist and Head of the Strategic Advisory Unit at the Regional Bureau for Africa. His work on financing for development and global public goods has been published by Oxford University Press in books he co-edited. Additionally, he has contributed to several scientific journals, publishing on topics such as inequality, economics, innovation, technological change, and development.