Bloggers
Sameer Vasta is a storyteller and web junkie who has spent the past five years helping companies and organizations tell their stories and engage their communities through new and emerging media. He loves to laugh.
Sameer currently works as the social media strategist for the World Bank.
Angie Gentile is Senior Managing Editor of www.worldbank.org. Since joining the World Bank in 1993, she has worked on full-spectrum communications ranging from web to print to media, covering all sectors and regions of the world. Angie has authored or co-authored thousands of web features, news articles and reports during her tenure, managed the 2007 overhaul of www.miga.org, and is currently heading a team that is guiding the editorial and content reform of www.worldbank.org. Prior to joining the Bank, Angie backpacked around the world and worked on Latino advocacy issues in the US.
James Bond, a French national, joined the World Bank Group in 1986. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer of MIGA in March 2008.
James has served in numerous managerial positions at the World Bank. Prior to joining MIGA in 2008, James was the Bank’s Country Director for several francophone countries in West Africa. During this time, the World Bank provided assistance to Côte d´Ivoire in bringing that country’s internal conflict to an end, and financed the demobilization of combatants, emergency reconstruction, and a major sovereign debt workout. James was also based in Antananarivo, Madagascar, as the Country Director covering the countries of the Indian Ocean. Before this, he was Director of Agriculture, Rural Development, Environment and Social Development for the Africa Region, as well as Director of Energy, Mining and Telecommunications for the entire World Bank.
At the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, James was Director of the Mining Department, and was on the Board of the Escondida copper development in Chile. During his tenure a number of important mining projects were financed by IFC, including the privatization of the copper industry in Zambia.
Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Mr. Bond spent ten years with Total, the French oil and gas company, and also worked for Goldfields, a South African mining company. Mr. Bond holds a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, a graduate degree in energy economics and finance from the French engineering school ENSPM, and a doctorate in economics from the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris.
Since joining the World Bank in 2003, Nina has worked as a news associate, web writer and editor. While fielding journalists’ questions, monitoring media reporting and writing web features, Nina and a colleague created an online site on development for kids. This effort eventually evolved in Youthink!, the Bank’s website for youth. Nina was instrumental in conceptualizing the site, and then served as its first writer, editor and coordinator for the next two years. Then following a stint as a web editor for the Bank’s South Asia region, Nina became the homepage editor responsible for homepage content and editorial.
In his role as Regional Web Editor for the Latin America and Caribbean Region Carlos oversees several regional sites and writes web features. Prior to joining the Bank he worked as an editor and journalist covering business and development issues for many international media outlets, including the BBC, the Economist and the AP.
En su rol de editor web para América Latina y el Caribe, Carlos es responsable por la cobertura de internet de las operaciones del Banco Mundial en más de 20 sitios bilingües de nuestra región, y lidera el cada vez más frecuente diálogo con los usuarios de la web del Banco, a través de blogs y redes sociales. Antes de trabajar para el Banco Mundial, Carlos se desempeñó durante más de 10 años como editor multimedios cubriendo negocios latinoamericanos.
Antes de asumir su cargo como economista en jefe de la región, Augusto de la Torre se desempeñó como asesor senior en temas financieros para América Latina y el Caribe. Desde su incorporación al Banco en octubre de 1997, ha sido responsable por un número importante de publicaciones sobre un amplio abanico de temas macroeconómicos y de desarrollo financiero. Previamente fue presidente del Banco Central del Ecuador y se desempeñó como economista del Fondo Monetario Internacional.
Before his appointment as the region’s chief economist, Augusto de la Torre was a senior advisor responsible for financial matters in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since joining the Bank in October 1997, he has published extensively on a broad range of macroeconomic and financial development topics. Prior to joining the Bank Augusto was president of Ecuador’s Central Bank and an International Monetary Fund economist.
Sergio supervisa las comunicaciones del Banco Mundial en América Latina y el Caribe. Es fundador de la Alianza COM+, una asociación de organizaciones internacionales del Banco y profesionales de la comunicación. Sergio tiene vasta experiencia en países en desarrollo, tanto en el ejercicio mismo del periodismo como también en calidad de asesor de organizaciones internacionales.
Sergio Jellinek oversees the Bank's communications for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is a founder of the COM+ Alliance, a partnership of international organizations and communications professionals. He has extensive experience in developing countries, both as a working journalist and as an adviser to international organizations.
Keith Hansen is the World Bank Sector Manager for Health in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Ketih Hansen's videoblog posts:
H1N1 in Latin America, an overview
H1N1 and the economy
H1N1 and the World Bank
William Byrd is currently serving in the World Bank’s Headquarters in Washington, DC as Economic Adviser in the Fragile and Conflict Affected Countries Group. Previously he was Adviser in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit of the South Asia Region of the Bank. Until late 2006 he was the Bank’s Senior Economic Adviser based in Kabul, Afghanistan. There he was responsible for helping develop the World Bank’s strategy for support to Afghanistan’s reconstruction effort and established the World Bank's office in Kabul.
William Byrd has been in the World Bank for more than 20 years. He has had a number of multi-year assignments based in developing countries including India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
William Byrd's publications include six books on China. other books, and numerous articles, among them several papers on Afghanistan, as well as a number of World Bank reports. He has been responsible for reports on Afghanistan’s Economic Development, Public Finance Management, Economic Cooperation in the Wider Central Asia Region, and Afghanistan’s Drug Industry, as well as papers on responding to Afghanistan’s development challenge. More recently he co-authored a joint report of the World Bank and the UK’s Department for International Development on “Afghanistan: Economic Incentives and Development Initiatives to Reduce Opium Production”, and also a Bank report on “Fighting Corruption in Afghanistan: Summaries of Vulnerabilities to Corruption Assessments”.
William Byrd has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and an MA in East Asian Regional Studies from the same institution.
Marwan Muasher, a Jordanian national, joined the World Bank as Senior Vice President of External Affairs on March 16, 2007, from his most recent position at the Senate of Jordan. His career has spanned the areas of development, diplomacy, civil society, and communications.
Mr. Muasher began his career as a journalist for the Jordan Times, then served from 1985 to 1990 at the Ministry of Planning and later as press advisor to the Prime Minister. He subsequently served as Director for the Jordan Information Bureau in Washington, building understanding and support in Congress, the press, and civil society.
In 1995, Mr. Muasher opened Jordan's first embassy in Israel, and in 1996 became Minister of Information and the government’s spokesperson. From 1997 to 2002, he served in Washington again as Ambassador, negotiating the first free trade agreement between the United States and an Arab nation. He then returned to Jordan to serve as Foreign Minister, where he was deeply involved in the peace process. In 2004 he became Deputy Prime Minister responsible for Reform and Government Performance, and led the effort to produce a ten-year Development Strategy that included, among other topics, major recommendations on political and economic reform, financial services, fiscal reforms, employment, education, and training.
Mr. Muasher holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from Purdue University.
Derek Warren is a Senior Communications Officer with the London office of the World Bank.
Alastair McKechnie has worked for the past twenty seven years in various positions, his previous position being Country Director for Afghanistan, Bhutan, and Maldives in the South Asia Region.
Other positions include Operations Director for the South Asia Region, where in addition to his work on Afghanistan, he assisted the Vice President for the region and oversaw the Bank’s operations in South Asia; Energy Sector Director South Asia region, responsible for the Bank’s energy operations in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka; Division Chief for Energy, Infrastructure and Private-Sector Development in the Mashreq, Egypt and Iran Department in the Middle East/North Africa region. After the Asian tsunami disaster in 2004, he coordinated the World Bank’s response to the South Asia region.
Mr. McKechnie is Director, Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group, where he provides leadership and support for the Bank’s work on the fragile and conflict-affected areas, including developing and promoting an agenda for strategic knowledge and research; establishing key partnerships across institutions involved in fragile states; and leading institutional reforms affecting fragile states, including the implementation of the new rapid response policy and procedures and reform to organizational and human resource systems.
Alastair McKechnie's videoblog posts:
Can Kevenk is a communications consultant with the World Bank Office of the Publisher.
Julia Ross is Corporate and Home Page Editor for the World Bank website. Prior to joining the Bank in 2009, she worked as a freelance journalist in Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar. She holds an M.A. in journalism and has more than 15 years' experience as a communications officer in global health and international development. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today and many other venues.
Richard Fix is the Senior Communications Officer in the World Bank’s Data Group. He and his team manage the group’s website and the distribution of the data materials both electronic and print. Before joining the Bank in 1998, Richard was with the Canadian government in various capacities including Director of Communications for different social programs, a ministerial advisor, and press secretary to the Minister of Human Resource Development. He is based in Washington, DC.
Fionna Douglas is the program manager and team leader for the Portfolio Quality Knowledge Management and Learning Team in the Bank’s Agriculture and Rural Development Department.
Prior to joining the Bank in August 2008, Fionna worked as an adviser at the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR); as Director of Public Affairs for Australia’s Agency for International Development (AusAID); and as Director of Marketing and Communications for Oxfam Australia.
Educated as a lawyer in Australia, she has also worked as a documentary film producer and freelance journalist in Mozambique, Ethiopia, Eritrea, the Pacific and Australia.
Senior Communications Officer, World Bank Africa Region
Senior Health Specialist, World Bank Africa Region
Christopher M. Walsh is a Communications Officer for the World Bank-administered Water and Sanitation Program. WSP and the Water Anchor are housed together in SDN’s Energy, Transport, and Water department. He has also worked in communications for the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program, and the World Bank Africa region’s energy technical team, among others.
Merrell is Senior Communications Officer in the World Bank’s Development Economics Vice Presidency, a job she has held since 2007. She has worked at the World Bank for close to 20 years, including in regional communications assignments as well as media relations. Prior to joining the Bank, Merrell worked in financial journalism as well as international public relations.
Senior Communications Officer, World Bank Africa Region
Bahar Salimova is an Information Officer with the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). Prior to joining IEG, Bahar worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as a Knowledge Management Specialist. While at UNDP, she helped to establish the International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics (iKNOW Politics) conceptualizing project’s website and resources, creating a community of practice, authoring knowledge resources, and designing learning practices and strategies.
World Bank Sector Manager, Human Development
Sector Manager, World Bank Health, Nutrition & Population Sector, Africa Region
Director of External Affairs, World Bank Africa Region
As a Communications Officer in the World Bank’s Africa Human Development department, Kavita works on health, education, and social protection. Prior to her current position, she worked with the Bank’s Development Economics department, distilling the messages from various reports such as the annual World Development Report. In both jobs, she has tried to bring social media into her daily work and that of others. Before Kavita joined the Bank in 2001, she was a freelance journalist in India for several years. Reading and writing are the things she most enjoys; her first book, Brahmins and Bungalows: Travels through South Indian History, was published by Penguin India in 2004. She also likes to tend plants and hike with her dog.
Oficial de comunicaciones del Banco Mundial en Brasil, donde es responsable de desarrollar y gestionar la estrategia de comunicaciones del Banco en ese país. Antes de ingresar al Banco en 1998, era un especialista en comunicación para el Servicio de Información de los Estados Unidos en Brasil y trabajó como asesor especial del presidente del Instituto Brasileño de Medio Ambiente.
Mauro Azeredo is the World Bank's communications officer for Brazil and responsible for developing and managing the Bank’s communications strategy in the country. Before joining the Bank in 1998, he was a communications specialist for the United States Information Service in Brazil and worked as special aide to the president of the Brazilian Environment Institute.
John Nash es economista líder del Departamento de Desarrollo Sostenible del Banco Mundial en la región de América Latina y el Caribe, donde trabaja en temas de desarrollo rural, medio ambiente, desarrollo social, energía, infraestructura, desarrollo urbano y suministro de agua. Es uno de los autores de "Recursos naturales en América Latina y el Caribe: ¿más allá del ciclo de auge y caída?" Previamente trabajó como asesor económico de la Comisión de Comercio Federal. John posee un doctorado en economía de la Universidad de Chicago.
John Nash is a lead economist in the Sustainable Development Department of the World Bank's Latin America and the Caribbean region, dealing with issues of rural development, environment, social development, energy, infrastructure, urban development and water supply. He is also one of the authors of "Natural Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean: Beyond Booms and Busts?" John holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.
Emily Sinnott es economista senior en la Unidad de Desarrollo Humano para la región de Europa y Asia Central del Banco Mundial y co-autora del reciente estudio insignia "Recursos naturales en América Latina y el Caribe: ¿más allá del ciclo de auge y caída?" Antes de unirse al Banco trabajó en el Ministerio de Finanzas de Guyana. Emily tiene una doctorado en economía del Instituto Universitario Europeo.
Emily Sinnott is a senior economist in the Human Development Economics Unit of the European and Central Asia Department of the World Bank and co-author of the flagship report "Natural Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean: Beyond Booms and Busts?" Prior to joining the World Bank she worked in the Ministry of Finance of Guyana. Emily holds a Ph.D. in economics from the European University Institute.
Jim Rosenberg is the World Bank's Head of Social Media. Previously, Jim managed outreach for CGAP's mobile phone banking/microfinance program. He was also a radio journalist for WAMU-FM, Marketplace, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Jim holds a master's in journalism from Columbia University and is fluent in English and Spanish.
Ms. Manuelyan Atinc is the Vice President for Human Development Network, which leads the organization’s work on health, education, social protection, and labor. Prior to her appointment in June 2010, Ms. Manuelyan Atinc was the Director for Human Development in the Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Region. Since joining the Bank in 1984, she has worked extensively across Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, and Europe and Central Asia. Before joining the Bank, she worked in Geneva at the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
As Vice President for Concessional Finance and Global Partnerships, Axel van Trotsenburg is responsible for policy and negotiations for replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s fund for the poorest. IDA is one of the largest sources of development aid, providing no-interest, long-term credits and grants to support health, education, infrastructure, agriculture, and economic and institutional development to 79 of the poorest countries.
In addition to IDA, Mr. van Trotsenburg oversees the World Bank’s trust fund portfolio and the trustee functions for a wide range of international initiatives such as the Global Environmental Facility, the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, and innovative financing mechanisms, such as the International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm) and the pilot Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for pneumococcal vaccines.
Meera Shekar is Lead Health & Nutrition Specialist with the Human Development Network at the World Bank. She leads the Bank’s work in scaling-up its investments in nutrition, develops corporate strategy, advises country teams on design and development of nutrition investments, and is the Bank’s policy liaison on nutrition with partners. She has been actively engaged in the G8 agenda-setting processes in Japan in 2008 and in Canada in 2010 and in the development of the Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) Framework for action.
From September 2006 to November 2007, she was Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution. Prior to that, she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria, after serving as Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Economy and Head of Nigeria's much acclaimed Presidential Economic team responsible for implementing a comprehensive home grown economic reform program that stabilized the macro-economy and tripled the growth rate to an average 6 percent per annum over 3 years. Her achievements as Finance Minister garnered international recognition for improving Nigeria’s financial stability and fostering greater fiscal transparency to combat corruption. Previously she pursued a 21 year career as a development economist at the World Bank, which included six years working in the East Asia region. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala was educated at Harvard and has a PhD in Regional Economics and Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Vivien Foster is Lead Economist in the Office of the Director for Sustainable Development in the Africa Region of the World Bank, where she is responsible for coordinating a major knowledge program known as the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic. Her work at the World Bank involves both analytical and advisory services, and economic input into the design and supervision of projects, with a focus on the impacts of infrastructure reform and privatization on the poor. Before joining the World Bank, she was a Managing Consultant of Oxford Economic Research Associates Ltd in the UK where she advised private and public sector clients in the water and energy industries, and worked with numerous Latin American governments on issues relating to water sector reform. She holds a Doctorate in Economics from University College London.
Sadia Afroze Chowdhury, MD, MPH, a Bangladeshi national, is the Bank's lead specialist on reproductive health.Sadia, joined the Bank in 1998, and has worked in South Asia on population, reproductive, and maternal and child health with a focus on strengthening health systems and the convergence of reproductive health with nutrition and HIV/AIDS. At the Human Development network, she has led the development of the Bank's Reproductive Health Action Plan and is . a co-author of the Action Plan..She also participates in capacity building and policy development and policy dialogue, and coordinates with development partners on these issues. Before joining the World Bank, Sadia was the Director of the Health and Population Division at BRAC, the largest NGO in Bangladesh.
Lynne D. Sherburne-Benz is Sector Manager, Social Protection in the World Bank's Africa Region. In her current position, she supervises all World Bank social protection projects and analytical work in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since 1985, she has held a number of other positions at the World Bank, including Adviser to the Bank's Managing Director; Country Program Coordinator in Southeast Asia (covering Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Mongolia), and Sector Manager of Social Protection in the Human Development Network Anchor. She has a PhD in International Trade, International Finance, and Development Economics from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her publications include Social Risk Management: The World Bank's Approach to Social Protection in a Globalizing World (co-authored with Robert Holzmann and Emil Tesliuc).
.Jan Walliser is sector manager for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management in the World Bank’s Africa Region. In his current position, he oversees staff working on macroeconomic and poverty issues in Nigeria and 10 countries in Central and Western Africa.
Previously, he advised World Bank staff and senior management on issues related to development policy lending (budget support), aid effectiveness and conditionality in one of the World Bank’s central units. Prior to joining the World Bank, Jan was an economist at the International Monetary Fund and a principal analyst for macroeconomic and fiscal policy at the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. Jan received a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University in 1998 and a Diplom-Volkswirt degree from Kiel University, Germany, in 1993. He has published in a range of professional economic journals on intergenerational aspects of fiscal policy, tax reform, pension reform, aid predictability, and aid effectiveness.
Obiageli "Oby" Ezekwesili, a Nigerian national, was appointed Vice President for the World Bank's Africa Region in 2007. She oversees more than 1600 staff and is responsible for the delivery of projects and economic and sectoral work in 47 Sub-Saharan countries. In fiscal year 2010, the Bank committed $11.5 billion in new project lending in Africa, and disbursed over $1.1 billion in grants, in addition to almost 90 analytical studies. Ms. Ezekwesili is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Masters in International Law & Diplomacy from the University of Lagos, a Masters in Public Policy & Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a Bachelors degree from the University of Nigeria. In 2006, Ms. Ezekwesili was given the national award of Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR). She is married to Pastor Chinedu Ezekwesili and has three sons.
Donna has enjoyed working in online news and communications since 1998. A consultant at the World Bank, she has worked for AOL and the District of Columbia government.
Jean Pierre Brun worked as a Prosecutor and Investigative Judge in France for 12 years. He prosecuted and investigated corruption,fraud, illegal financing of political campaigns, money laundering and organized crime, and worked as an auditor both in the public and the private sector.
Jean Pierre was also a Director for Forensic and Fraud investigations at Deloitte Finance in Paris. He joined the World Bank in 2008 as a Financial Sector Specialist, where he workson Anti Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, providing technical assistance and training to investigators, prosecutors and judges dealing with financial crime.
He led the team that drafted the Asset Recovery Handbook, a flagship product of the joint UNODC-World Bank StAR initiative. The handbook will be launched and published in December 2010 and aims to provide practitioners in developing countries with a technical guide on how to conduct asset recovery investigations and implement legal proceedings to recover proceeds of corruption.
McCarthy has earned international recognition for investigations and prosecutions of individuals engaged in corruption as head of South Africa’s Directorate of Special Operations.
His work with South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority has included investigating and prosecuting high profile cases of financial crime, organized crime, and high-level corruption.
He has worked closely with African governments and law enforcement officials across the globe to expose and prosecute transnational financial crime. McCarthy was formerly a Director of Public Prosecutions appointed by President Nelson Mandela.
Jeanne M. Hauch is a Senior Investigator with the East Asia Pacific Team of the Integrity Vice Presidency of the World Bank. Before joining the World Bank in June 2009, she served a senior federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorneys Office in Washington, D.C. for more than ten years, specializing in transnational major crimes and serving as lead counsel in many federal trials.
Earlier in her career, Jeanne practiced law in private law firms in Washington, D.C. and Brussels. In 1992-93, she received a Fulbright grant to do research and lecture at the University of Paris and the Institute of Political Studies of Paris. In 1989-1990, she clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court, as well as clerking in 1988-1989 on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York.
Jeanne was educated at the Yale Law School and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is a member of the bar in Washington, D.C. and New York.
Carolina Vaira is a lawyer by training with over twelve years of professional experience on international, commercial and public law, including in connection with WB’s priority areas such as governance, anticorruption and rule of law. She joined the Bank in April 2006 and has focused her work on the design, implementation and evaluation of action learning programs that seek to develop anticorruption strategies at the national and sectoral levels.
Carolina has worked on projects to improve judicial transparency, integrity and accountability as well as on the design and delivery of capacity building programs on public prosecution of anticorruption cases in a very diverse group of countries encompassing two regions (LAC and Africa). Before joining the Bank , she was a public servant in the Argentine Government (at the Ministries of the Economy and Foreign Affairs), and worked as a legal consultant at the European Commission (DG Competititon), the WTO and UNCTAD.
David Bernstein is a lawyer who has worked in private legal practice, for the U.S. State Department and for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development before joining the World Bank in late 2003. He has worked on public sector reform projects focusing on the justice sector since 1992. The majority of his work has been with the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Upon joining the World Bank, David served as a Team Leader for a number of World Bank investment loans in the justice sector and has led teams conducting justice reform research in a number of countries. In mid-2010, David transferred to the World Bank's Integrity Vice Presidency where he is working in the Preventive Services Unit. He has responsibility for the countries of the East Asia-Pacific region, where his focus is on improving the anti-corruption efforts in World Bank projects and reaching out to government counterparts to share experiences and knowledge on anti-corruption mechanisms and assist with capacity building efforts.
Anders Hjorth Agerskov heads the World Bank's Preventive Services Unit in the Integrity Vice Presidency. The unit is responsible for provide just-in-time advice on how to assess and mitigate fraud and corruption risk in Bank-supported operations. Mr. Agerskov has previously worked in the Danish development arm, DANIDA, and held various positions in the World Bank, including in the Corporate Strategy Group and the Board.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Simon was Head of (Intelligence) Analysis at Europol, the EU intelligence agency based in The Hague from 1994 - 2002, joining the agency in its formative year from the Metropolitan Police in London, where he led that organization’s Criminal Intelligence Analysis group. At Europol he was actively involved in the development of information sharing procedures between EU law enforcement agencies.
became the World Bank’s Vice President for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region on January 1, 2005. She is a development economist and has held management positions in various countries and regions since joining the Bank in 1980.
From 2000 to 2004, Ms. Cox was Director of Strategy and Operations in the Office of the Vice President for the Africa Region, where she oversaw the increase of Bank lending to the poorest African countries. Previously, she served as Country Director for South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland from 1996 to 2000. During 1994-1996, she was Chief of the Country Operations Division in East Asia covering Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Korea. She served as Chief of the Agriculture and Environment Operations Division from 1992 to1994 in the same region.
During the early years of her career in the Bank, Ms. Cox was an economist working on agricultural and environmental issues in the units for South Asia and Latin America. In the Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Ms. Cox was a senior economist in the Agriculture Division (1985-87), where she worked primarily with Brazil.
A national of the United States, Ms. Cox holds two masters degrees (Masters of Arts in Law and Diplomacy and Masters of Arts in Development Economics/International Economics), as well as a Ph.D. in Development Economics and Policy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts.
As part of the Education team, Chrissy helps facilitate the World Bank’s mission to share its experience and expertise in education with the global community. She holds a masters in International Education Policy from Harvard University and a bachelors in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College. She also studied international development at the School for International Training in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Her background includes working on communications, international exchange, global citizenship, and girls' education. She is a passionate supporter of the Millennium Development Goals in her work and career.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director, joined the World Bank in June 2010. She is responsible for the Bank’s operations in Africa, East Asia & the Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, the Middle East & North Africa and South Asia. In addition, Sri Mulyani oversees other administrative vice-presidencies and functions, including the Integrity Vice Presidency, Sanctions Board Secretariat and the Office of Evaluation and Suspension.
Prior to joining the Bank Group, Sri Mulyani served as Indonesia’s Minister of Finance, at which time she guided economic policy for one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia, and one of the biggest states in the world, navigating successfully in the midst of the global economic crisis, implementing key reforms, and earning the respect of her peers across the world. Ms. Indrawati holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Indonesia. She has received numerous honors and awards, including Euromoney Magazine’s Global Finance Minister of the Year, and Emerging Markets Best Finance Minister in Asia. She has also been regularly on Forbes List of the 100 Most Powerful Women.
Ms. Indrawati is married with three children
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