Eric Kashambuzi is the UN Liaison for Millennium Promise and Principal Advisor to the CEO. Previously, Mr. Kashambuzi served the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) as a focal point for intergovernmental affairs involving work of the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council and Security Council. His long career with the UN also included working in the secretariat servicing the UNDP and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Board. Since 2004, Mr. Kashambuzi has served as Senior Policy Advisor to the United Nations Millennium Project and later to the Bureau of Development Planning in the UNDP.

Mr. Kashambuzi has written and published many articles on African development and has authored four books on the subject. He has been a guest speaker at MIT, Harvard University, Columbia University, McGill University, Brandeis University, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges as well as the Hunger Project Conference and the Convention of Ugandans living in North America.

Mr. Kashambuzi holds degrees in geography, economics, demography, and international law and diplomacy from University of Nairobi (Kenya), University of California, Berkeley (USA) and Universiy of Lusaka (Zambia). His academic career also includes teaching geography and economics at the University of Nairobi and the University of Addis Ababa.