Bloggers
A Spanish national, Ignacio Hernandez has worked as a consultant for the World Bank Institute's Poverty and Growth Program for the last 4 years, supporting capacity building programs and the units outreach activities. He holds a Masters degree in International Development from Georgetown University and another in International Management from ESCP EAP, and has previous experience working in Private Sector Development and International Trade. He is also a keen <A href="http://www.venividiphoto.com/"target="_blank">photographer</A>.
Raj Nallari is a Lead Economist and Practice Leader for the Growth and Crisis Program of the World Bank Institute. During these 15 years of service in the international financial institutions, he has worked in country operations (in Africa, Caribbean and South Asia regions) of the World Bank and the Policy Development and Review of the IMF. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin and has co-authored a book published by Oxford University Press, several monographs and articles on development policy issues.
Dr. Yan WANG is Senior Economist and task team leader at The World Bank Institute. Her responsibilities include managing a few training courses on Capital Flow Volatility, trade and growth, and an IDF project for Capacity Building. Her recent research include Foreign Bank Entry and Domestic Bank Performance: Evidence using Bank-level Data; and Impact of Service Sector Liberalization in China using CGE Analysis. She has received several awards including the SUN Yefang Award in Economics, published extensively in academic journals and several books, e.g. The Quality of Growth (2000), and contributed to WB Country Reports including China: Promoting Growth with Equity, Country Economic Memorandum 2003. Before joining WBI, she was an economist in the East Asia Region of the World Bank. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and taught economics as an assistant professor before joining the World Bank.
Mr. Fofack is a Professional and Research Economist with over 15 years of experience in academia and international development. He is currently responsible of the Macroeconomic and Growth Program at the World Bank Institute, the knowledge and research arm of the World Bank Group. His interest is primarily in development economics, growth, banking and finance, science and technology. Mr. Fofack is the Founder of the Nelson Mandela Institution for Knowledge Building and the Advancement of Science and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa, an independent ground-breaking African initiative to enhance the development of Africa through the promotion of excellence in science, engineering and their applications. Mr. Fofack holds an Advanced Degree in International Economics and Finance from France, a Master degree in Mathematical Statistics and a PhD in Applied Statistics and Economics from American University, Washington, DC. Mr. Fofack has published extensively and is a member of some leading professional and scientific organizations, including The African Academy of Sciences and the American Economic Association.
Migara De Silva joined the Bank in 1995. He has worked in a number of World Bank Institute (WBI) programs and has built a comprehensive training program on intergovernmental fiscal relations in Russia to train central and regional/local government officials in all of the 7 Regions (Okrugs) in Russia. He is also the task manager in the joint programs on Central Asia and the Caucuses which were launched under Fiscal Decentralization Initiative (FDI) by WBI, UNDP (Bratislava) and the Local Government Initiative (LGI) of the Soros Foundation in Budapest. Prior to becoming a member of the public sector governance team, Migara has worked extensively and later co-managed a work program (called "Brain Trust" Program) funded by the Government of Japan through WBI. In addition, he has worked on public sector reform and has published papers on the impact of resource booms on growth, institutions and economic growth.
Otaviano Canuto is Vice President and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network, a division of more than 700 economists and other professionals working on economic policy, poverty reduction, and analytic work for the World Bank’s client countries. He took up his position on May 4, 2009, after serving as the Vice President for Countries at the Inter-American Development Bank since June 2007.
Dr. Canuto provides strategic leadership and direction to Regional PREM units as well as groups working on economic policy formulation in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public sector management and governance. He is also involved in managing the Bank’s overall interactions with key partner institutions including the IMF, the OECD and regional development banks.
Dr. Canuto was Executive Director at the Board of the World Bank in 2004-2007. He also served in the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, where he was Secretary for International Affairs. He was Professor of Economics at the University of São Paulo and University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil.
