Mr. Anis Chowdhury, Former UN-ESCAP Director and Former Professor of Economics of University of Western Sydney visited BIDS on 21 August, 2016 at 3:00pm and gave a presentation which provided critical overview of the key elements of the development macroeconomic policies pursued/recommended since the early 1980s and also offered some thoughts on how macroeconomic policies should look like in the post-2015 development era. This prompted a lively and extremely productive discussion with the young researchers of BIDS. The discussion session ended with an interactive QnA where Mr. Anis Chowdhury responded to the different questions from the researchers. Dr. K. A. S. Murshid, Director General, BIDS and many of the senior researchers of BIDS participated in the discussion.