24. Kemal Derviş

Kemal Dervis is a Turkish economist and politician (1949, Istanbul).

As Minister for Economic Affairs in Turkey when Bülent Ecevit was prime minister, Derviş was the architect of Turkey 's successful three-year economic recovery program launched in 2001. Before being named to head the United Nations Development Programme UNDP, he was a member of the Turkish parliament, and a member of the joint commission of the Turkish and European parliaments. He previously was a member of the European Constitutional Convention.

He was named by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to be the next head of the UNDP on April 26, 2005, and is expected to officially start his four-year term on August 15, 2005.