Marco Kamiya, PhD, is the UNIDO Representative for Indonesia, the Philippines, and Timor Leste. UNIDO is the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

He was Chief of the Digital Transformation and AI Strategies Division at UNIDO in Vienna, Chief of the Urban Economy and Finance Branch at UN- HABITAT in Kenya, and senior executive at CAF Development Bank for Latin America in Caracas, the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., and worked for a major development consulting firm in Tokyo.

He has written academic papers and articles on industrial policies, growth and AI; Co-edited the Springer annual series on the “Global Urban Competitiveness Report” (UN-Habitat, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences CASS), "Finance for City Leaders" (UN- Habitat/University College London). He is a senior member of the United Nations Economist Network (UNEN) in New York and a fellow of Cambridge University’s Industrial Innovation Policy (CIIP) in the UK.

Marco Kamiya studied International Development at Harvard University (MPA-ID) and possesses a PhD in economics (Italy).