Tia

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.