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.
Marcelo Giugale is the World Bank's Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programs for Africa. A citizen of Argentina and Italy, he holds a PhD and a MSc in Economics from The London School of Economics, and a Suma-Cum-Laude BA in Economics from Universidad Católica Argentina.
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
Molly is a web editor, interactive designer and multimedia producer. Molly builds participatory experiences in converging media spaces. Previously, Molly was an online and TV journalist at ABC News, NY1 News and the WashingtonPost.com.
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.
Cristian Baeza is the World Bank's Director for Health, Nutrition, and Population, Human Development Network. Dr. Baeza joined the World Bank from McKinsey & Company where he was a Partner leading its Global Health Systems Financing Cluster. Prior to McKinsey, Dr. Baeza was Lead Health Policy Specialist in the World Bank's Latin America and Caribbean Region. He has significant experience in health policy and health financing from his previous positions as CEO of the Chilean national health insurance organization (FONASA), his work with the International Labour Organization and World Health Organization prior to joining the World Bank, and from his work advising governments on health financing in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Dr. Baeza holds a medical degree from the University of Chile as well as a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
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.
David Hawkes heads the Special Litigation Unit at the World Bank Integrity Vice Presidency. Previously Mr. Hawkes served as a prosecutor who specialized in anti-corruption and white collar crime investigations in Berlin, Germany, and an official in the German Federal Ministry of Justice. Mr. Hawkes holds a doctorate in law (Dr.iur.) from Freiburg/Germany.
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.
Recanatini leads the Anticorruption Thematic Group providing advice and guidance on anti-corruption preventive work and institutions of accountability. Before joining the World Bank, Ms. Recanatini worked at the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland focusing on institutional reforms in transition economies. She joined the World Bank in 1998 and worked in the Bank’s Research Department, the Eastern European region and the World Bank Institute before joining PRMPS. Ms. Recanatini holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park.
Paul Haynes is a Team Leader in INT's Research and Analysis Unit, responsible for developing INT's proactive investigations, as well as a Senior Investigator. Paul also heads up the World Bank's Voluntary Disclosure Program (VDP). Prior to joining INT in 2006, Paul worked as an investigator for the UK government on matters relating to counter-terrorism and organized crime and which included a brief time at Europol in The Netherlands.
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.
Mike Stefanovic is INT’s Manager of External Investigations, with prior experience as Chief Resident Investigator for the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services in Africa and as an investigator for the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia.
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.
Tim is a Forensic Accountant by training. He has been involved in corruption and asset recovery work for 20 years. In the early 1990s he was centrally involved in the investigations into the demise of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, this work led directly to successful, large scale international asset recovery . In 2004 the South African Mail and Guardian produced a list of the 10 highest profile corruption cases in the first 10 years of democracy in South Africa. Tim was involved in the investigations of 4 of these cases.
More recently Tim has worked in the policy arena. This policy work includes acting as an embedded adviser to the Zambian and Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commissions, heading the Anti-Corruption Team for the UK Department for International Development and most recently as a Senior Governance Expert in the Joint World Bank/United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative.
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.
Simon Robertson has worked in (law) enforcement for over 30 years and holds an MA in Criminal Intelligence Analysis from Manchester University, England. Since November 2002, he has been the Senior Forensic Data Officer within INT. Simon currently leads the intake section of the Research and Analysis Unit, a role that involves dealing with all allegations that come to INT. He is also responsible for the development of the VPU’s new information and case management system.
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.
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.
Otaviano Canuto is Vice President and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network. 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.
Ritva Reinikka is director of the Human Development Group in the Africa Region of the World Bank. Since she joined the Bank in 1993 as a country economist in the Eastern Africa Department, she has held various positions in the Africa Region, the Middle East and North Africa Region and the Development Research Group, and was co-director of the 2004 World Development Report Making Services Work for Poor People.
In 2004-08 she was the World Bank country director based in South Africa. Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Reinikka was researcher at the Centre for the Study of African Economies in the University of Oxford and the Helsinki School of Economics. She has also held operational positions at UNICEF and with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Finland. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Jamal Saghir provides overall leadership to the Bank’s activities in sub-Saharan Africa, in agriculture, rural development, energy, environment, climate change and natural resources management, infrastructure, ICTs, oil, gas and mining, post-conflict reconstruction, social development, transport, urban development, and water. Mr. Saghir ensures the soundness and alignment of country, regional and corporate strategies, as well as the Bank’s portfolio in these sectors, so that all contribute effectively to poverty reduction and a sustainable, climate-resilient future in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mr. Saghir was previously Director and Chair of the Bank Group’s Boards for Energy, Transport and Water, a position he held from 2001-10. He joined the World Bank in 1990, after working as a senior advisor on privatization, energy and infrastructure in the governments of Tunisia and Quebec, Canada.
Mr. Saghir is also an appointed member of the United Nations Secretary General’s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change, and a member of the Global Energy Assessment. He is a frequent speaker on sustainable development issues at international conferences of decision-makers and thought leaders.
Vinod Thomas was Director-General and Senior Vice President, Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank Group until his retirement in August 2011. He reported to the Board of Executive Directors and directed the evaluation of the activities of the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. Mr. Thomas is currently Director-General of Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank.
Mr. Sanjay Pradhan is the Vice President of the World Bank Institute. He assumed this position in October 2008.
Mr. Pradhan earlier served as the Director, Public Sector Governance for the World Bank, Prior to that, he was responsible for managing the Bank’s unit supporting governance and public sector reform in 26 countries across Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Justin Yifu Lin is World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics. In this capacity, Mr. Lin guides the Bank’s intellectual leadership and plays a key role in shaping the economic research agenda of the institution.
Building on a distinguished career as one of China’s leading economists, Mr. Lin is undertaking an ambitious research program that examines the industrialization of rapidly developing countries and sheds new light on the causes of lagging growth in poor regions.
He took up his World Bank position on June 2, 2008, after serving for 15 years as Professor and Founding Director of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. He will remain on leave from Peking University during his World Bank tenure.
Francisco H. G. Ferreira is the Deputy Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank. He is on leave from the Bank's Research Department, where he is a Lead Economist. He has published widely in the fields of poverty, inequality, and the political economy of development. He is a Research Fellow of IZA (Bonn) and a regular Île-de-France Visiting Professor at the Paris School of Economics. He was also a co-Director of the team that wrote the World Development Report 2006, on Equity and Development. Prior to joining the World Bank’s Research Department, Francisco was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Economic Inequality, the Review of Income and Wealth, the World Bank Economic Review and the Economic Analysis Review. He was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Angel Gurría is the Secretary-General of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Born on May 8th, 1950, in Tampico, Mexico, Angel Gurría came to the OECD following a distinguished career in public service, including two ministerial posts.
As Mexico’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from December 1994 to January 1998, he made dialogue and consensus-building one of the hallmarks of his approach to global issues. From January 1998 to December 2000, he was Mexico’s Minister of Finance and Public Credit. For the first time in a generation, he steered Mexico’s economy through a change of Administration without a recurrence of the financial crises that had previously dogged such changes. (From OECD.org)
Rita K. Almeida is an Economist at the Human Development Social protection Unit of the World Bank. Between 2003 and 2006, she worked at the Development Economics Research Department of the World Bank. Prior to joining the Bank, she worked as analyst in an investment bank and taught at the Portuguese Catholic University, in Lisbon. A native of Portugal, she holds a MA degree in Economics from the Portuguese Catholic University and a Ph. D in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. She is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour (ZA) since 2006. Rita has published several academic articles in labor economics, development and international economics. At the World Bank, she is currently leading work on the design and implementation of skills development policies, and on activation and graduation policies in the developing and emerging economies. She is also an impact evaluation specialist of employment and social programs.
Jee Peng TAN is currently Education Advisor in the Human Development Network of the World Bank where she coordinates the Network’s Bank-wide program on Skills toward Employment and Productivity (STEP). The program includes the multi-country STEP Skills Measurement Study and the Workforce Development domain of the initiative on System Assessment and Benchmarking for Education Results (SABER).
PETER LANJOUW, a Dutch national, is Research Manager of the Poverty Group in the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Amsterdam Institute of International Development, Netherlands. He completed his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics in 1992. From August 2003 until August 2005, he was a visiting scholar at the Agriculture and Resource Economics department at UC Berkeley, and he held the appointment of Professor of Economics at the VU University of Amsterdam between September 1998 and May 2000. He has taught in the Masters in Development Economics program at the University of Namur, Belgium and has also taught at the Foundation for the Advanced Study of International Development in Tokyo, Japan. His research focusses on various aspects of poverty and inequality measurement as well as on rural development issues.
Giorgia Giovannetti is Professor of Economics at the University of Florence and part time Professor at the European University Institute, where she has acted as Project Director of the European Report on Development in 2009 and 2010. She holds a PhD and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge – UK, as well as a “laurea cum laude” in Statistics and Economics from the University of Roma-la Sapienza. She has directed the Research Centre of the Italian Trade Institute (2005-2007) and has been advising its President for the past 5 years. She has also been an advisor for the Italian Treasury and the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Her research interests include development economics, international trade, macroeconomics and political economy. She has published extensively in academic journals (European Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Financial Development, Applied Economics etc) and books.
Will Martin is Research Manager, Agriculture and Rural Development, in the Development Research Group. He obtained his first degrees from the University of Queensland and the Australian National University, and Masters and PhD degrees from Iowa State University. Before joining the World Bank, he worked as a researcher and manager at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University. He has published extensively on agricultural trade policy and developing countries, with a particular focus on the World Trade Organization and economic development. He has published widely using quantitative models such as the Global Trade Analysis Project, and has a particular interest in using detailed data to build up a complete picture of the effects of policies on welfare impacts at national and household levels.
Remi Jedwab is a PhD candidate in economics from the Paris School of Economics, on the 2011-2012 job market. He is currently a visiting student at the London School of Economics (STICERD). His field of interests are development economics, economic geography, and public economics. His research interests include the economics of cities, the role of infrastructure in trade and growth, agricultural economics, the distributional effects of natural resource booms across space, and economic development in Africa. More information can be found on: http://www.pse.ens.fr/junior/jedwab/index.html
Rana Hendy is an Economist at the Economic Research Forum and affiliated to the Paris School of Economics. She has a Ph.D in Labor Economics and Microeconometrics from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne & Paris School of Economics, France. Her research mainly focuses on Labor Economics, Gender and Family Economics, and Evaluation of public policies.
Josefina Posadas is an Economist at the Gender and Development Group of the Poverty Reduction Network in the World Bank. She holds a Ph.D. from Boston University and has previously taught at the National University of La Plata (in Argentina) and worked at the Inter-American Development Bank. Her analytic training is in the field of labor economics, with work on female labor force participation, gender wage gap, entrepreneurship, and intra-household allocation of resources.
Mr. Pezzini, an Italian national, joined the OECD in 1995 as Principal Administrator in charge of the work on Distressed Urban Areas. From 1996 to 1999 he was the Head of the OECD Rural Development Programme. From 1999 to 2006, he was Head of the Regional Competitiveness and Governance Division in the Public Governance and Territorial Directorate, promoting regional development, regional policy effectiveness and multi-level governance. Since February 2007, he has been Deputy Director of the Public Governance and Territorial Directorate. For more visit www.oecd.org.
Linda Kleemann works at the Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet) at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany.
Johannes Zutt, de nacionalidad holandesa, ha participado activamente en el desarrollo desde 1990. Su primera experiencia participan la planificación, seguimiento y evaluación de UNICEF y el PNUD en África oriental y meridional. Durante este tiempo, él también estaba involucrado en los estudios de numerosos países, así como en el Estudio de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Impacto del Conflicto Armado de la Infancia (1995), y la investigación patrocinada por la OUA personas eminentes en el genocidio de Ruanda (1998-1999). En 1999, el Sr. Zutt se unió al Banco Mundial, donde se desempeñó como Coordinador del Programa País de una serie de países, entre ellos Angola, China, Malawi, Mongolia, Mozambique y Zambia, y fue el líder del equipo para las estrategias de país y de numerosos proyectos . En 2006, el Sr. Zutt fue nombrado Consejero de uno de los dos directores generales del Banco, y en enero de 2008 se le pidió que sirven como el jefe interino del Departamento de Integridad Institucional (INT), que tiene el mandato de investigar las denuncias de fraude o corrupción relacionados con proyectos financiados por el Grupo. Sr. Zutt tiene un JD de la Universidad de Harvard y un doctorado. (en la filosofía) de la Universidad de Oxford. Él es el director del Banco Mundial para Eritrea, Kenia, Ruanda y Somalia.
Audrey Liounis is a Communications Officer in the Bank's operational communications group.
Andrea is a web and multimedia producer, Spanish editor for the bank's youth web site, Youthink! , and coordinator for the Bank's multilingual online corporate presence. Previously, Andrea has been an online and print reporter, and her writing can be found in El Pais, ABC News on Campus and El Espectador.
Joachim von Amsberg is the Bank's Vice President for Operations Policy and Country Services. Previously, he served as Country Director for Indonesia and the Philippines.
Saroj Kumar Jha, is the Manager of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), a partnership of 38 countries and 7 international organizations committed to helping developing countries reduce their vulnerability to natural hazards and adapt to climate change.
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
Karin Christiansen is the Director of Publish What You Fund. Prior to setting up Publish What You Fund she worked as the Policy Manager at the ONE campaign and for six years as Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute. Her policy and research specialisms include aid, donor behaviour, aid effectiveness and reform – particularly from a recipient country perspective. She joined ODI having worked as an Economist at the Rwandan Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture. Prior to that Karin worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Catholic Relief Services in Croatia. She studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics as an undergraduate, and has Masters degrees in Development Economics and in Social and Political Thought.
Enzo de Laurentiis has served as the Regional Procurement Manager of the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank since 2006. On behalf of the Bank, he has co-chaired the OECD-DAC Procurement Task Force since May 2010. Prior to joining the Bank’s procurement team in 1998, Mr. de Laurentiis was Projects Director and later Vice President of an international consulting firm (1992-1998) which provided a complete range of advisory services on procurement operations, policy and reforms to MDBs and countries around the world. He was also a member of the adjunct faculty (1992-2004) at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., teaching international contracts and international procurement law and advising students on independent research projects. He has additional prior legal and international banking experience. Mr. de Laurentiis hold a law degree (Dottore in Giurisprudenza) from the University of Trieste in Italy and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Legal Studies from American University Washington College of Law.
A UK national, Caroline Anstey holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Nuffield College, Oxford. Before joining the World Bank, Caroline worked as Political Assistant to the Rt. Hon. James Callaghan MP, and as Editor of the BBC weekly current affairs program "Analysis". She also served as Secretariat member of the InterAction Council, a group of former Heads of Government that develops recommendations on political, economic, and social issues. Since she joined the World Bank in 1995, she has worked in various positions including: Country Director for the Caribbean; Director of Media Relations and Chief Spokesperson; and Assistant and Speechwriter to World Bank President, James D. Wolfensohn. Most recently, she served as World Bank Chief of Staff, appointed to the position by President Robert B. Zoellick in November 2007.
Mr. Fraeters is Manager at the World Bank Institute and leads the World Bank’s South-South Knowledge Exchange agenda. This new agenda for the World Bank responds to the rapidly growing demand from developing countries to be connected directly and learn from other countries who have faced, or are facing, similar development challenges. His team leads the development of the financing, brokering, design and implementation mechanisms that allow such peer-to-peer learning to happen with high quality and on a global scale. As part of this work, Han has oversight over the multi-donor South-South Facility. He is the World Bank’s focal point for South-South Cooperation and Knowledge exchange for the G20 as well as the Aid Effectiveness agenda. Han is also co-chair of the Global Board of the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN). He has an MA in Philology and in Media & Information Sciences from the University of Leuven in Belgium.
Philip Karp is currently Advisor, Office of the regional vice president in East Asia and the Pacific in the World Bank. Previously, he was Regional Coordinator for East Asia and the Pacific at the World Bank Institute (WBI), the unit of the World Bank responsible for training, knowledge management, and capacity building and was based in Beijing. Mr. Karp has held several unit management positions at WBI. In China, Mr. Karp’s work focused on supporting China’s increasing role in South-South learning and technical cooperation, particularly with Africa. He also assisted Chinese government agencies and training institutions in enhancing the use of modern information and communication technologies to support domestic and international knowledge and learning networks. Mr. Karp holds a BA degree from Clark University and a MPP degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Stuart Yikona, is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist with the World Bank in the Financial Market Integrity Service Line. Prior to joining the World Bank in June 2005, he worked as a Consulting Counsel with the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund. He completed his Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) at the University of Virginia Law School in banking law on "Insiders and Insider Abuse in Banking Institutions in the United States and Zambia". In his current position, he advises client countries on issues related to combating financial crimes such as corruption, the laundering of the proceeds of crimes; delivering capacity building programs to strengthen client countries capacity to combat financial crimes; and most recently pursuing research on the impact of ill-gotten money on the economy.
Andrew, recently returned to the Bank after three years as Director General, Policy and Research, at the UK Department of International Development (DFID) in London. In earlier years at the Bank he held a number of positions including Country Director for Indonesia and Vietnam, Director of the Environment Department, and Staff Director of the 1992 World Development report on Environment and Development, the Bank’s Flagship report to the Rio Earth Summit. Andrew has three decades of experience working on development issues at the country level in Africa and Asia, and on global development issues. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, has written widely on development issues and has taught Economics at several universities.
Paul Bermingham was appointed Director of Operations Services in the Operations Policy and Country Services vice-presidency of the World Bank in June 2010. He was the Bank’s Country Director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova from 2004 to 2008, based in Kyiv in Ukraine. He was previously Director, Financial Management in OPCS from 2001 to 2004. An Irish national, he joined the World Bank in 1994, and worked for some years in infrastructure, private sector development, and public enterprise reform. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked for governments, development agencies, and in the private sector for several years. He has lived and worked in developing and transition countries for more than fifteen years. He is a business studies graduate of Trinity College Dublin, holds a higher diploma in education from the National University of Ireland, and is a former Fellow of the Irish Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Anne is the web editor handling the Bank's online activities in Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Singapore. She has a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of Sheffield in the U.K. and her writing has been published in The Guardian, BBC Radio Times online, CNN Traveller, CNBC Business Magazine, and more. In 2007, Anne's article "Amplifying Peace Across Borders" won the International Essay Competition for Young People sponsored by the Goi Foundation of Japan and UNESCO. She is originally from the Philippines and is now based in Thailand.
Open Data Specialist
Tim is an Open Data Specialist at the World Bank, where he supports the Bank’s ongoing efforts to expand and improve its portfolio of open data products. Most recently Tim helped to coordinate the launch of the World Bank’s Open Climate Data Initiative in 2011, and is managing the Apps For Climate competition. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2011, Tim served as Director of Online Communications at the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank based in Washington, DC. While at WRI he also served as a Climate Policy Specialist and project lead for the Climate Analysis Indicators project. He also worked in the private sector for many years as a technology consultant to several leading U.S. companies. Tim holds a Master’s degree in public policy from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and a bachelor’s degree in communications from Bethel University in Minnesota.
Amy provides strategic and hands-on direction for audience-centric approaches to web content development and the packaging of content for key audience segments. She is a member of the Web Program Office online communications team.
Patricio V. Marquez is a World Bank Lead Health Specialist and Cluster Leader for the countries in the southern Africa subregion. Until recently he worked in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, assisting countries in designing and implementing health system reform and disease-specific projects. He has authored reports on road safety in ECA, the demographic and health crisis in Russia, health system challenges in Russia, and blood transfusion systems and the spread of HIV in Central Asia. He also co-authored a recent report on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China, and a policy note on NCDs and road traffic injuries in Cambodia. He helped prepare the $1 billion Global Avian Influenza Preparedness and Control Framework Program in 2006, and the $1.2 billion Global Food Response Facility in 2008. He also has prepared and managed health, science and technology, and HIV/AIDS prevention and control projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. He pursued his graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Patrick Mullen es un especialista superior en salud y trabaja en la oficina del Banco Mundial en Nueva Delhi, India.
Ghulam es experto superior en salud y trabaja en la oficina del Banco Mundial en NUeva Delhi, India.
Vinita Ranade trabaja como consultora en comunicaciones para la web del Banco Mundial en Nueva Dehli, India.
Alexandra Habershon is a consultant with the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative and the World Bank's Public Sector & Governance group, and was recently appointed Coordinator of the International Corruption Hunters Alliance for the World Bank's Integrity Vice Presidency. She is a contributing author to StAR and World Bank publications on financial disclosure systems, and has worked for several years on policy analysis and technical assistance in anti-corruption. Before that she worked on governance reform projects, with a particular focus on judicial reform, in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Africa. Alexandra has a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Georgetown University.
Tawia Addo-Ashong has been program coordinator for the Global Road Safety Facility since 2010. She is an engineer orginally from Ghana and has worked in the Africa and South Asia Regions on road and transport projects.
Moira Donahue is the director of international operations for Safe Kids Worldwide, a global network of organizations with a mission to prevent unintentional childhood injury, a leading cause of death and disability for children ages 14 and under.
Rachel Kyte is the vice president for sustainable development at the World Bank, where she has overall responsibilities for the organization’s global work in agriculture, environment, energy, infrastructure, urban, and social development, along with global public goods issues in those areas. Prior to her appointment in 2011, she was the International Finance Corporation's vice president for business advisory services and a member of IFC's management team.
Margaret Grosh is the Lead Economist for Human Development in the Latin American and Caribbean Region and co- leader for the Safety Nets Global Expert Team. In her prior job Margaret led HDNSP’s safety nets team; was team leader and co-authored For Protection and Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets (2008); a contributing author for the major policy research report that reviews the lessons from the experience of conditional cash transfer programs, Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty (2009) and organizer of a number of conferences and workshops, some focusing on only conditional cash transfers, others on safety nets more widely. Previous assignments included leading the team on Living Standard Measurement Studies in the Bank's research department. and work on poverty and safety net programs in Latin America. She holds a PhD in Economics from Cornell University.
Ruslan Yemtsov is a lead economist and team leader for social protection at the World Bank. Prior to his current position, he worked as a poverty economist in the Middle East and North Africa region, and in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. His experience includes: preparing poverty assessments (Egypt, Georgia, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia), working on targeting and social assistance reviews (Morocco, Russia, Croatia), and leading regional flagship reports on poverty, subsidy reforms and statistical capacity. He has also worked on food crisis response, structural adjustment credits, energy sector reform, social funds, and social welfare development projects.
Dr. Arup Banerji is the World Bank’s global Director for Social Protection and Labor, overseeing the World Bank’s strategy and knowledge work on labor markets, social safety nets, pensions and disability issues.
In his career at the World Bank, he has worked on both research and operations in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East – on a variety of issues relating to employment and labor markets, social sector reforms, poverty reduction, institutions, public sector reform and governance, economic growth strategies and evaluation of programs.
He is a principal author of books including From Red to Gray on Aging Populations in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Enhancing Job Opportunities in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, World Development Report 2002 on the role of institutions in global economic development, Better Governance for Development in the Middle East and North Africa, World Development Report 1995 on labor markets, and numerous other refereed journal articles and discussion papers.
Prior to joining the World Bank, he taught at the Center for Development Economics at Williams College, Massachusetts, USA, where he was the Dean of Graduate Studies, and at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He holds a Ph.D. and a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Delhi, India.
Elizabeth Howton is the Online Communications Officer for the World Bank’s South Asia Region. Her experience prior to joining the Bank includes 10 years as an editor at the San Jose Mercury News in California’s Silicon Valley. As Science and Health Editor, she sent reporters to Sri Lanka to cover the tsunami’s aftermath and to India to report on microbicides for HIV prevention, as well as editing a series on genetic medicine that the newspaper nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. After making the switch to online media, Elizabeth became Managing Editor of EverydayHealth.com, the largest consumer-health website. She was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated from Stanford University.
Inició su actividad profesional en la Comisión Nacional de Seguros y Fianzas y ha ocupado diversos cargos en la Administración Pública dentro del sector financiero, entre los que destacan: Director General de Planeación Financiera de la Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar); Secretario Adjunto de Protección al Ahorro, en el Instituto de Protección al Ahorro Bancario (IPAB); Director General de Banca y Ahorro de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP); Director General del Banco Nacional de Crédito Rural (Banrural); Director General de Financiera Rural; Subsecretario de Hacienda de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP) y Secretario de Energía.
Es Licenciado en Economía por el Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) con mención honorífica, así como Licenciado en Derecho por la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Obtuvo el Doctorado en Economía por la Universidad de Yale.
En el ámbito docente, José Antonio Meade ha sido Profesor de Economía en el ITAM y ha publicado diversos artículos en temas de Microeconomía y Análisis Económico del Derecho.
Markus Goldstein is a development economist with experience working in Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. He is currently a Senior Economist in the Africa Region of the World Bank and a member of the World Development Report 2012 team. In the Africa region, he coordinates the work of the Africa Region Gender Practice. His current research centers on issues of gender and economic activity, focusing on agriculture and small scale enterprises. He is currently involved in a number of impact evaluations on these topics across Africa. Markus has taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Ghana, Legon, and Georgetown University. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Shaida Badiee directs the unit that manages the Bank's Open Data Initiative and produces the Bank's statistical products. She is responsible for the annual World Development Indicators and the biennial Atlas of Global Development, two of the primary sources for measuring global progress in attaining social, economic and environmental goals. Her department collects and publishes data on external debt, and also supports countries that want to improve their statistical capacity and implement their own Open Data initiatives. Previously, Ms. Badiee was chief of the systems division of the Bank's international economics department, and prior to joining the Bank she taught computer science and information management at George Washington University.
Maitreyi Bordia Das is Lead Social Development Specialist in the Social Development Department of the World Bank in Washington, DC. As Team Leader of the Social Inclusion Cluster, she is leading a World Bank Flagship Report on the subject.
Maitreyi started her career as a lecturer in St Stephen's College, University of Delhi, has been a MacArthur Fellow at the Harvard Center of Population and Development Studies, and has been an advisor to the United Nations Development Program. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology (Demography) from the University of Maryland. Her recent research includes lead authorship of "Poverty and Social Exclusion in India" and "Whispers to Voices: Gender and Social Transformation in Bangladesh," as well as several articles and working papers. Before joining the World Bank, Maitreyi was in the Indian Administrative Service.
Christopher Neal is Senior Communications Officer in the World Bank’s Sustainable Energy Department.
Nicholas Keyes is a communications officer for ESMAP, the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program.
Fabrice Houdart is the country officer for Central Asia and president of World Bank GLOBE, the Bank’s LGBT employee resource group. During his career at the Bank, he has worked on various parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, first as a human development consultant and later in country management units. He holds a B.A. in economics and management from Dauphine University and an MBA from American University. His efforts to promote diversity in the Bank were recognized by an ECA VPU Award and a Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Award in 2012.
Aude-Sophie is an Economist at the Poverty Reduction, Gender and Equity unit in the Latin America and Caribbean region. She focuses on vulnerability, equity and gender, particularly in the context of Haiti, Brazil and Argentina. She holds a PhD in microeconomics from the CERDI (France), master degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and from Sciences-Po (Paris). Prior to joining LCSPP, she has worked for ten years on Africa with NGOs, the UN and the European Commission, focusing on fragile countries, as well as for the Social Development Unit in South Asia.
Aude-Sophie es economista de la unidad de Reducción de Pobreza, Género e Igualdad para América Latina y el Caribe. Es especialista en vulnerabilidad, equidad y género, concretamente en Haiti, Brasil y Argentina. Tiene un Master en Microeconomía del CERDI, en Fracia, otro del Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy y de Sciences-Po (Paris). Antes de entrar al Banco, trabajó durante diez a:os en África con diferentes ONGs, las Naciones Unidas y la Comisión Europea, centrándose en países frágiles.
Hari is a carbon finance specialist in the World Bank's Carbon Finance Unit and is part of the Policy and Methodology team. He has been working for more than seven years in carbon markets and has more than 12 years experience in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Hari's current work profile involves providing policy, regulatory, and methodology support to CDM projects, developing simplified approaches and methodologies for improving energy access projects in least-developed countries and developing concepts and design elements for new market mechanisms.
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