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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.
Hoda Atia Moustafa is Senior Counsel in the Legal and Claims Group at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group. Since joining MIGA in 2007, she works closely with underwriters and political risk analysts to structure political risk guarantees in the context of international investments in developing member countries. Her sector focus is infrastructure and financial sector projects, with a regional focus on the Middle East. She worked on the Doraleh Container Terminal project in Djibouti, MIGA’s first guarantee of a Sharia-compliant project financing. Before joining MIGA, Ms. Moustafa was Assistant General Counsel at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a bilateral US government agency providing financing and political risk insurance to private sector projects in emerging markets. Prior to joining OPIC, Ms. Moustafa was in private practice at two international law firms, Clifford Chance in Washington, DC and Mayer Brown Rowe & Mawe in Chicago. She advised multilateral lenders, commercial banks, sponsor and issuers on project financings as well as asset-backed securitizations and other structured finance transactions. Ms. Moustafa holds a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center and Master’s Degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. She is admitted to practice law in New York, Washington, D.C. and Illinois.
