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Anne is the web editor handling the Bank's online activities in Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Singapore. She has a Master's degree in... Read more »
Ariel Fiszbein's picture
Axel van Trotsenburg's picture
Axel van Trotsenburg assumed the role of World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Vice President on February 1, 2013. He oversees a portfolio of over... Read more »
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Chris Bennett's picture

Chris Bennett is a Senior Transport Specialist working in the East Asia and Pacific region, based in the Sydney Australia office.... Read more »

Christopher Walsh's picture
Christopher Walsh joined the World Bank Group's water practice to communicate knowledge from staff water experts to the global public, and to shepherd... Read more »
Claudia Gabarain's picture
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David Dollar's picture

David Dollar, a US national, worked for five years as the World Bank’s Country Director for China and Mongolia in the East Asia and Pacific Region.... Read more »

David Robinett is a senior private sector development specialist in the World Bank's Capital Markets and Corporate Governance Service Line. He began his... Read more »
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Edith Bowles's picture

Edith Bowles started as Country Manager in Solomon Islands in 2008, with the opening of the Bank country office. Prior to that, she worked for the WB... Read more »

Emmanuel Jimenez's picture

Emmanuel Jimenez, from the Philippines, has held a variety of positions as an economist and manager at the World Bank.  Since early 2002, he has... Read more »

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Flore de Préneuf's picture

Flore de Préneuf documents the results of development projects for the World Bank. She went to China in 2008 to look at "green projects" financed by... Read more »

Frederico Gil Sander's picture

Frederico Gil Sander has been based in Bangkok since November 2008. He follows the Thai economy but also works on debt and macroeconomic issues in... Read more »

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Ivailo Izvorski's picture

Mr. Ivailo Izvorski is a Lead Economist in the East Asia and Pacific region of the World Bank, working on regional economic and financial issues.... Read more »

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Jaehyang So's picture

Ms. Jaehyang So is Manager of the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), a multi-donor partnership administered by the World Bank to support poor people... Read more »

James Seward's picture

I work on financial sector development issues in the East Asia & Pacific region for the World Bank.  I have been working on a variety of... Read more »

Jean-Louis Racine's picture
Jean-Louis Racine is a senior innovation specialist working in the Europe and Central Asia region and the Innovation Technology and Entrepreneurship... Read more »
Jim Anderson's picture
James Anderson (Jim) is currently a Senior Governance Specialist working on Vietnam where he recently led the preparation of Vietnam Development Report... Read more »
Joe Qian's picture

Joe Qian is a Communications Associate for the Read more »

Julia Oliver's picture
Julia Oliver is a communications consultant for the World Bank's International Trade Department. She worked as a newspaper journalist for eight years... Read more »
Justine Espina-Letargo's picture
Justine Espina-Letargo is the online communications officer for the World Bank's Philippines and Vietnam hub. She has done research on communications... Read more »
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Kanthan Shankar's picture

Kanthan Shankar, an Indian national, is the Country Manager for the World Bank Group's first office in Myanmar. Mr. Shankar assumed his post in... Read more »

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Louis Kuijs's picture

Louis Kuijs works since September 2004 as Senior Economist in the World Bank’s China office on macroeconomic issues, conducting macroeconomic... Read more »

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Mara Warwick's picture

I am a senior urban environment specialist in the China and Mongolia Sustainable Development Department and I have been based in the World Bank... Read more »

Mohamad Al-Arief's picture
Arief is the World Bank's Regional Communications Officer for the East Asia Pacific Region based in Washington, DC. Until three years ago he was based... Read more »
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Nicholas Menzies's picture
Nicholas Menzies is a Justice Reform Specialist in the Justice Reform Practice Group of the World Bank's Legal Vice Presidency. He has worked at the... Read more »
Nina Fenton's picture

Nina is the Lao country office's resident data wizard. She has been waving her magic wand at the NT2 data for nearly a year now. In her spare time... Read more »

Nor Gonzales's picture
Nor Gonzales is a Senior Communications Officer at the World Bank office in Manila. Read more »
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Patricio V. Marquez's picture
Patricio V. Marquez is a World Bank Lead Health Specialist and Cluster Leader for the countries in the southern Africa subregion. Until recently he... Read more »
Peter Chapman's picture
Peter Chapman is a consultant with the Justice Reform Group of the World Bank. His work with the Justice for the Poor program focuses on justice reform... Read more »
Philip E. Karp's picture
Philip Karp is currently Advisor, Office of the regional vice president in East Asia and the Pacific in the World Bank. Previously, he was Regional... Read more »
Philip Schellekens's picture

Philip Schellekens works in the East Asia and Pacific Department of the World Bank. Prior to his appointment to the World Bank, he was with the... Read more »

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Sri Mulyani Indrawati's picture

Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director, joined the World Bank in June 2010. She is responsible for the Bank’s operations in Africa, East Asia &am... Read more »

Stéphane Guimbert's picture

Stéphane Guimbert is an economist in the Phnom Penh office of the World Bank. After a couple of years working in Paris and another couple of... Read more »

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Thomas Farole is a Senior Economist in the International Trade Department of The World Bank. He has more than 15 years of experience working with the... Read more »
Tony Whitten's picture

I was an odd bird at the World Bank - a wildlife biologist working as the Senior Biodiversity Specialist in our East Asia and Pacific Region. ... Read more »

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Ulrich Zachau's picture
Ulrich Zachau, a German national, joined the World Bank Group in 1988. He has since held various staff and management positions at the World Bank,... Read more »
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Valerie Hickey's picture
Valerie Hickey is an environmental scientist and conservation biologist who specializes in biodiversity. Read more »
Vikram Nehru's picture

Vikram Nehru is Chief Economist and the Director of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management and Private and Financial Sector Department for ... Read more »

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Wang Shu's picture
Wang Shu is the deputy director of China's National Development and Reform Commission. Read more »
William Rex's picture

After 7 years in Washington DC, William Rex moved to the World Bank office in Vientiane in 2006 in search of a more intense interaction with... Read more »

Wolfgang Fengler's picture

Wolfgang Fengler is the World Bank’s Lead Economist in the Nairobi office of the World Bank where he covers Kenya, Rwanda, and Eritrea.

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Xiaodong Wang's picture

Dr. Xiaodong Wang is a Senior Energy Specialist in the East Asia & Pacific (EAP) region of the World Bank. She is the lead author for the Energy... Read more »

Xubei Luo's picture

Xubei Luo is an economist in the East Asia and Pacific region’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department. She joined the World Bank as a... Read more »

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Zahid Hasnain's picture
Zahid Hasnain is a Senior Public Sector Specialist at the World Bank, where he has been since 2002. His interests are in public financial management and... Read more »