The InfoShop and Energy Sector Management Assistance Program
cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring
The Challenge of Rural Electrification:
Strategies for Developing Countries
(a copublication with RFF Press)
Edited by Douglas F. Barnes
Written by development experts ranging in expertise from engineering to economic
history, this book demonstrates that there are major opportunities to increase
the pace and widen the scope of rural electrification. Case studies of
successful rural electrification programs in Bangladesh, Chile, China, Costa
Rica, Ireland, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, Tunisia, and the United States
will be of interest to a broad range of policy makers, development
professionals, and community advocates. The book confirms that there is not one
way to accomplish rural electrification, but an underlying set of principles
that should be followed in order to reach the 1.6 billion people currently
without access to electricity services.
Tuesday, October 9th
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
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Introduced by
Jamal Saghir
Jamal Saghir is Director of the Energy, Transport and Water department in the
Sustainable Development Vice Presidency of the World Bank and Chair of the
Energy and Mining, Transport, and Water Sector Boards. Mr. Saghir joined the
Bank in 1990 as a Financial Officer specializing in private sector development,
privatization and restructuring assignments. He became Principal Private Sector
Development Specialist in 1997, and was appointed Sector Manager in the
Infrastructure Development Group in MENA, in 1999.
Presented by
S. Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer is Sector Manager for Energy for the Africa Region at the World Bank.
His 15+ years of experience as an Infrastructure Project Leader at the Bank
builds upon 10 years of experience in development and public administration in
India. Mr. Iyer?s Bank career spans projects in the South Asia and Africa
regions, covering the full range of energy sector activities from renewable and
household energy to large scale oil/gas, electricity generation, transmission,
and distribution.
Elizabeth Cecelski
Elizabeth Cecelski (Co-author) has worked for more than 25 years on rural
electrification and rural development and serves on the 3-member Technical
Advisory Group for the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program. She was an
energy economist at Resources for the Future and later worked in the Rural
Employment Policies Branch of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva.
She is a founding member of the Advisory Group and technical adviser for
ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy.
Douglas F. Barnes
Doug Barnes is a Senior Energy Specialist in the Energy Sector Management
Assistance Program and has been working in rural and urban development for over
25 years. Mr. Barnes has published extensively on the topic, and led efforts to
develop a rural energy strategy at the World Bank Group. Before joining the
World Bank, he worked at the Center for Energy Policy Research at Resources for
the Future. He recently coauthored The Urban Energy Transition: Energy, Poverty
and the Environment in the Developing World and Environmental Health and
Traditional Fuel Use in Guatemala.
Moderated by
Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez
Ede Ijjasz is the manager of the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and the
Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). These are global
partnership programs administered by the World Bank and supported by 14 donor
countries. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Ijjasz worked in environmental
consulting. He is currently a lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Master?s
Program of Environmental Science and Policy, in the area of contaminant fate and
transport modeling and policy.
For more information or to order the book, please visit:
http://www.rff.org/rff/RFF_Press/CustomBookPages/RuralElectrification.cfm
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About the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)
ESMAP is a multi-donor trust fund program administered by the World Bank and
established in 1983. The Program helps build consensus and provides policy
advice on sustainable energy development to governments of developing countries
and economies in transition. ESMAP promotes the role of energy in poverty
reduction and economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner. Its work
applies to low-income, emerging, and transition economies and contributes to the
achievement of internationally agreed development goals.
For more information, visit: www.esmap.org
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0
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