Bloggers
Alfredo Gonzalez Briseno is a Junior Professional Associate that has worked at the World Bank since 2008, when he joined WBI's governance data and diagnostics team. He has done research on several governance and anticorruption related topics and has worked on governance diagnostic projects. A Mexican national, Alfredo has a BS in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Panamericana, and a Masters of Public Policy with a concentration in Public Administration from Georgetown University. Before joining the Bank, he worked at a business school in Mexico.
Boris Weber works on WBI's global governance program and, as part of the diagnostics team, on in-country surveys assessing the quality and integrity of public services. Previous assignments in WBI’s capacity development division and the OECD-directorate for public governance allowed him to work on a broad range of issues from citizen’s participation to human resources aspects of public management. He has authored studies on senior staffing and the political/administrative interface, on political accountability and the role of the legislature and on the democratic deficit of the European Union. He has a particular interest in the demand side of governance and the role of the media. In part this is due to his prior career in journalism. Boris has worked for leading print, radio and TV media and he has received journalistic awards in the USA and Germany. As a Chief Editor in Charge he has been responsible for running a major current affairs program on national German TV for over eight years. Boris is an Ancien Elève of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration where he has been trained in a French-German government program for young executives. He has earned a post-graduate Master’s degree in international public governance from the Sorbonne University and the University of Potsdam in cooperation with Sciences-Po, Paris, and the Humboldt University, Berlin; and he has earned a Master’s of law (LL.M) from the Sorbonne and the University of Cologne.
Edouard Al-Dahdah is an economist working at the World Bank since 2001, first in the Middle East and North Africa Unit, then at the World Bank Institute. He is one of the core authors of the World Bank report on Better Governance for Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Enhancing Inclusiveness and Accountability, published in 2003, and is currently working on producing a companion volume. His fields of expertise include the political economy of institutional reforms and quantitative economic history. His interests also include anticorruption reforms and governance indicators. He did his graduate work at the University of Chicago and Georgetown University, and his undergraduate work at the American University of Beirut.
Joel Hellman is currently the Manager for the Governance and Public Sector Group in the South Asia Region. His previous assignment was as Governance Adviser for the Indonesia Country Team based in Jakarta, where he has spearheaded efforts to integrate governance and public sector reform issues into the Bank's entire country program. Joel, an American national, joined the Bank in 2000 as a Lead Specialist in the Public Sector Group in the Europe and Central Asia region. He is regarded as a leading expert in public sector reform and political economy within and outside the World Bank.
Kashmira Daruwalla, an Indian national, joined the World Bank Group in 1985. She presently works as Senior Procurement Specialist for the GICT department. Her current duties include providing policy guidance and advice to client countries and World Bank staff to ensure fiduciary and quality compliance in procurement. As a Senior Specialist, she is involved in developing new and innovative practices, approaches and solutions to difficult and complex procurement issues. She works closely with task teams to provide support on output-based aid; electronic-Government Procurement and Public Private Partnerships in e-Government. She is a member of GICT's practice teams on (i) Rural Access, Backbone Networks, and Broadband; (ii) e-Government and IT applications; and (iii) IT Industry Development. She has a Masters degree in Project Management from the George Washington University and in Acquisition from the University of Virginia.
Kathrin Frauscher is an Extended Term Consultant at the World Bank Institute, focusing on business environment reforms, business advocacy, private sector governance issues and capacity building of business member organizations.
Regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and adviser to countries on governance and development, Dani Kaufmann, along with his former colleagues, pioneered survey methodologies and capacity building approaches for good governance and anti-corruption programs around the world. Currently, he is Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and previously headed groups on Global Governance and Knowledge for Development at the World Bank Institute. He also held positions at the World Bank which include managing a team on Finance, Regulation and Governance, heading capacity building for Latin America, and also serving as Lead Economist both in economies in transition as well as in the Bank's research department. In the early nineties, he was the first Chief of Mission of the World Bank to Ukraine, and then he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University prior to resuming his career at the World Bank. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum (Davos) Faculty. His research on economic development, governance, the unofficial economy, macro-economics, investment, corruption, privatization, and urban and labor economics has been published in leading journals. Dani Kaufmann is a frequent speaker on governance issues in major fora, such as the recent keynote presentation at the First Global Forum on Media Development, as well as the Annual Goodman Lecture at the University of Toronto in 2005, and his work on governance and development is often reported in media and policy circles. A Chilean national, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard, and a B.A. in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Asides from being a guest bloggers at this blog, he has his personal blog The Kaufmann Governance Post - http://thekaufmannpost.net/
Maria González de Asis is a Senior Public Management Specialist in the Governance team in the World Bank Institute. Employed by the World Bank since 1997, she has concentrated on public sector reform. Most recently, she is managing anticorruption programs in the field, disseminating emerging best practice in governance and anti-corruption worldwide, leading the area of Legal and Judicial Reform Learning Programs and the sectoral work and researching and advising countries on governance and development around the world. In the last years she has pioneered capacity building approaches for good governance and anti-corruption. Ms. Gonzalez is a frequent speaker on governance issues in different fora, providing lectures at Standford University, Kennedy School at Harvard, Georgetown University, and she has received several awards inside and outside the Bank for her challenging work in the area of Governance. Her publications include: "International Corruption" (Claves 1999), "Judicial Reform and Corruption" (La Revista 1997) and "La Burocracia Española" (Revista de Derecho 1996), La corrupción Judicial (Gestion y Análisis de Políticas Publicas 2001); Rule of Law and Corruption (World Bank, 2004); Reducing Corruption at the Local Level (forthcoming World Bank 2005); Governance and Rule of Law (World Bank Institute, 2006). Ms. González de Asis has a Master's degree in Law from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, and she has a Master's degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University. Before joining the World Bank, Ms. González de Asis worked at Transparency International in Washington, Berlin and Peru, and for the Spanish Lawyer Firm “Abogados Asociados”
Mark Nelson is Manager of the World Bank Institute's Global Programs unit and has been team leader for governance diagnostics, also at WBI. Mr. Nelson also works on capacity development issues, on the role of the media in development, access to information and transparency, and advises country teams on how to incorporate these issues into overall development strategies. Before moving to Washington in 2004, Mr. Nelson spent seven years in Paris as team leader of WBI’s European office, where he focused on governance issues, including the role of the media and other external accountability institutions in fostering good governance and development. From 1985 through 1996, Mr. Nelson was European diplomatic correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, based in Brussels, Berlin and Paris. He covered the negotiations leading to the Maastricht Treaty, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the war in Bosnia. From 1992 to 1993 on leave from the Wall Street Journal, he was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, where he co-directed a major study on U.S.-European relations and wrote extensively on the Bosnian war and other subjects for newspapers and scholarly journals. He was nominated to the Aspen Institute’s Young Leaders Program in 1997 and, as part of the Aspen Study Group on the Future of the Balkans, contributed to a major study that was published in 1998. He began his career as a researcher on international affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. From 1983 through 1985, he was a staff reporter at the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, where he covered local government. A native of South Carolina, he is a graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio and of the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.
Nathaniel Heller is Managing Director of Global Integrity, an independent, non-profit organization tracking governance and corruption trends around the world. Nathaniel has split time between social entrepreneurship, investigative reporting and traditional public service since 1999, when he joined the Center for Public Integrity and began, along with Marianne Camerer and Charles Lewis, to develop the Integrity Indicators and conceptual model for what would become Global Integrity. At the Center, Heller reported on public service and government accountability; his work was covered by the Associated Press, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Moscow Times, The Guardian (London), and Newsweek. His reporting on the human rights impact of post-9/11 U.S. military training abroad won awards from both Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Society for Professional Journalists. In 2002 he joined the State Department, focusing on European security and transatlantic relations. He later served as a foreign policy fellow to Senator Edward Kennedy in 2004. In 2005, Heller returned to stand up Global Integrity as an independent international organization and has led the group since. A US national, Nathaniel holds a Masters of Science in Foreign Service, Georgetown University and Bachelors of International Relations and Spanish Literature, University of Delaware. He is a frequent blogger and moderator of the Global Integrity Commons blog - http://commons.globalintegrity.org/
Randi Ryterman, a US national, joined the World Bank in 1992. She is the new director for Innovation and Change Management at the World Bank Institute (WBI). Before joining WBI in 2009, she managed the Public Sector Governance Anchor in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM). She also managed the Stolen Assets Recovery (StAR) Initiative, which is jointly implemented by the Bank and the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crimes. Ms. Ryterman previously worked in the Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Department and the Development Economics Research Group, where she helped to research and design institutional reforms to combat corruption and improve delivery of public services. Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Ryterman worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, where she taught Comparative Economic Systems and International Trade. She has also worked in the private sector, on issues related to the regulation of the oil and gas industry. Ms. Ryterman has a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Maryland. She has written widely on governance, anticorruption, and institutions in transition countries. She received the Ed A. Hewett Prize for an Outstanding Contribution to the Studies of the Political Economy of the Soviet Union and East Central Europe and their Successor States.
Mr. Sanjay Pradhan, an Indian national, is a leading authority on governance and public sector capacity building, combining a distinguished research record with extensive operational experience. In recent years he led the design and implementation of the World Bank Group’s Governance and Anticorruption Strategy. In 2008, Mr. Pradhan assumed the position of Vice President of the World Bank Institute, the learning, training and capacity-building arm of the World Bank Group. Before this appointment he directed the Bank's Public Sector Governance Group from September 2002, where he oversaw worldwide advisory and lending services to governments on public sector management, public finance and governance. Mr. Pradhan joined the Bank in 1986 as a Young Professional in the Industry Department. Since then he has held various positions in the Bank. Mr. Pradhan was a Principal Author of the World Development Report 1997, The State in a Changing World. Mr. Pradhan completed his PhD and Bachelor’s degrees from Harvard University.
Susana Carrillo is a Senior Governance Specialist working with the Governance Team of the World Bank Institute. She has been working for a number of years in the development field. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) as Chief of Program on poverty and governance issues in The Gambia with overall responsibility for West Africa; and in Guatemala as a Chief of Program on governance and human rights issues and as a Strategic Operations Specialist in UNDP HQ. She joined WBI Global Governance Program in 2004 and has worked on the provision of technical assistance on governance and anti-corruption issues in Africa. Her work includes frontier areas in the governance agenda, such as accountability and oversight and political economy of reform. Susana obtained a Global Executive Masters from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; a Masters in Development Studies from the University of Geneva and has post graduate studies in Economics from Birmingham University. She is a Peruvian national and resident of Brazil.
Tanya Gupta works in the Corporate Strategy and Resource Management VPU in the World Bank. Her last position was in the Public Sector Group of the World Bank’s Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Department, where she worked primarily on e-government, which is her primary area of interest, with a focus on Mexico, and the Caribbean. She has ten years of experience in the World Bank (Latin America and South Asia) and has spent three years in academia. She has an MBA from Bentley College.
Kreszentia Duer, New Business Development Leader at the World Bank Institute, manages its technical assistance program to strengthen policies, institutions, and capacities for Civic Engagement, Empowerment of poor people, and Respect for Diversity (CEERD) in developing countries (worldbank.org/ceerd). A focus of this program is Voice and Media Development; through this program she provides advice on broadcasting legislation and regulation; designs support for community radio stations and networks into Bank lending programs; and helps knit together relationships between new community radio stakeholder groups and more experienced community radio networks. In her thirty years' experience at the World Bank, she has pioneered new developments in education policy, governance and accountability, community driven development, cultural industries and intellectual property rights. She has developed and managed World Bank country assistance programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, managed rural poverty, urban development, and environment regional divisions, and led the Bank's world-wide Culture and Sustainable Development program. An American national, she is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal, Policy Sciences, is co-editor of the World Bank book, " Promoting Social Cohesion through Education(2006) and both led and co-authored the World Bank book, "Broadcasting, Voice and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law and Regulation" (2007). Tia holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Yale Law School, with a specialty in international law, and A.B. in psychology from Vassar College.
