The Global Partnership Co-Chairs

H.E. Mr. Suharso Monoarfa

Minister of National Development Planning and Head of Bappenas (Indonesia)

Mr. Suharso Monoarfa has been entrusted by President Joko Widodo with the position of Minister of National Development Planning, concurrently as Head of the National Development Planning Agency, since 2019. After a successful career in business for twenty years, he became a politician in 2004. Over the subsequent two decades, he then gained growing prominence by serving as Special Staff to the Vice President, Member of the House of Representatives, Minister of Public Housing, and Member of the Presidential Advisory Council. 

H.E. Mr. Crispin Mbadu Phanzu  

Vice Minister of Planning (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Mr. Phanzu was elected both National Deputy and Provincial Deputy during the presidential, legislative and provincial elections of 2018. He sat as a National Deputy in the National Assembly from January 2019 until April 2021. He is currently Vice-Minister of Planning in the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is a lawyer by training and holds a post-graduate diploma (DESS) and a Master's degree in public administration with a specialization in program and public policy evaluation from the École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP), Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada. After graduating, he worked for several years as a Senior Advisor to the Government of Quebec and as a Project Manager in the mining, education and public administration reform sectors.

Ms. Marie Ottosson

Deputy Director General, Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (Sweden)

Ms Marie Ottosson is since July 2017 the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency’s Deputy Director-General. Prior to this Ms Ottosson was Assistant Director-General at Sida/Director of the Department for International Organisations and Policy support. Ms Ottosson has over twenty-five years of experience in various positions with the Swedish government. Apart from multiple roles at Sida she has been the Deputy Head of Mission for the Embassy of Sweden in Vietnam. She has also been a Senior Auditor with the Swedish National Audit Office and worked in Luxembourg as an Auditor for the European Union for almost seven years. She audited the European Commission.  

Mr. Vitalice Meja

Executive Director of Reality of Aid Africa (Non-Executive Co-Chair)

Mr. Vitalice Meja is a founding member and a former Co-Chair of the Civil Society Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE), an open platform that unites CSOs from around the world on effectiveness issues. He is the Executive Director of Reality of Aid Africa Network – a pan-African network focused on poverty eradication through effective development co-operation policies. A key purpose of the organization is to strengthen the involvement of African CSOs in informing policy issues related to the international aid architecture, as well as issues around development co-operation through research, capacity building and advocacy. Mr. Meja has many years of experience in development policy advocacy, as well as in research at national, regional, and international level on financing for development, debt, and ODA, with both governments and the multilateral bodies. He has been part of the effectiveness agenda for over 17 years.