William Rex
After 7 years in Washington DC, William Rex moved to the World Bank office in Vientiane in 2006 in search of a more intense interaction with government clients and work-life balance. Now that his two young sons have discovered sticky rice and tuk-tuks, there is probably no route back. Since joining the Lao PDR country office, William has been working on capacity and institutional development, governance, aid effectiveness, and a provincial development project in Khammouane. More recently he took over as team leader of the Nam Theun 2 Social and Environment Project. William worked at the University of Cape Town before joining the Bank, and has a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. He has succeeded in finding more intense interaction with government clients.
- 10/16/11 Laos: How the Nam Theun 2 dam is managed during flood events
- 03/17/10 Nam Theun 2 – How are resettled people doing?
- 08/18/09 Laos: Flooding starts, testing stops for NT2 hydropower project
- 07/01/08 Multiple realities around Nam Theun 2’s successes and problems
- 04/30/08 NT2: Not a World Bank hydropower project
- 04/11/08 Nam Theun 2 impoundment begins - Also, checking progress in the new villages
- 04/03/08 Bugs or early morning videoconferences in Laos: take your pick