M. Joseph Atta-MensahPrincipal Policy Adviser, UNECA

Joseph Atta-Mensah is a Principal Policy Adviser at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).

Joe responsibilities include ensuring that the key policy findings in ECA research are used to support policy implementation at national, sub-regional and continental levels.  This is achieved by leading teams strengthening the capacity of African Union and its organs, including member States, the African Union Commission and the regional economic communities (RECs) in deepening and advancing the African Union's agenda of continental integration.

He also works on issues of macroeconomics, monetary economics and economic models. Joe leads teams in providing policy advisory services to national, sub regional and regional institutions, and assist them in the formulation of strategies, programmes and projects on macroeconomics and monetary economics.