International Trade Department, the Transport Unit, PREM and SDN
Networks
cordially invite you to a launch of a New Report and website,
featuring a panel discussion of the report
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| | Connecting to Compete |
| | Trade Logistics in the Global Economy |
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| | With the advent of global supply chains, |
| (Embedded image | a new premium is being placed on the |
| moved to file: | ability to move goods rapidly and |
| pic26806.jpg) | reliably. Countries able to connect to |
| | the global logistics web have access to |
| | vast new markets; while those whose links |
| | are weak face the large and growing costs |
| | of exclusion. |
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| | The Logistics Performance Index (LPI), |
| | with its indicators, is the first |
| | comprehensive benchmarking tool that |
| | measures a country?s logistics |
| | performance along its supply chain. |
| | Based on a worldwide survey of global |
| | freight forwarders and express carriers, |
| | this first report details logistics |
| | performance in 150 countries. |
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| | The study shows that trade logistics, or |
| | the capacity to connect to international |
| | markets to ship goods, is critical for |
| | developing countries to improve their |
| | competitiveness, reap the benefits of |
| | globalization, and fight poverty more |
| | effectively in an increasingly integrated |
| | world. It identifies the factors and |
| | policies that explain the wide |
| | differences in logistics performance |
| | among countries at similar levels of |
| | development and aims to help countries |
| | identify challenges and opportunities to |
| | improve their logistics performance. |
| | For more information please visit: |
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
3:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
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The event will be followed by a wine and cheese reception
CHAIR
Uri Dadush
Director, International Trade Department, World Bank
Uri Dadush, a French national, became Director of the International
Trade Department of the World Bank in July 2002. This department
provides a single venue for accountability for trade-related work in
the institution. In this position, Mr. Dadush is also responsible
for managing the Development Prospects Group. This Group is
responsible for analysis and projections of the world economy and
financial markets and their implications for developing
countries.Mr. Dadush was previously Chair of the Economic Policy
Sector Board and Director of Economic Policy. Prior to joining the
World Bank in 1992, Mr. Dadush was President of the Economist
Intelligence Unit, part of The Economist Group, from 1986 to 1992.
He was Group Vice President, International, for Data Resources,
Inc., from 1982 -1986. He has also worked as a consultant with
McKinsey and Co. in Italy and Denmark.
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SPEAKERS
Jean Francois Arvis
Senior Economist, International Trade Department, World Bank
Mr. Arvis is coordinating knowledge and advisory work in the area of
trade logistics and facilitation. He is responsible for the
development of logistics related indicators and for the Bank?s major
project on transit and landlocked countries. He has extensive
involvement in various trade and transportation projects worldwide.
Prior to joining the World Bank, he held various managerial
positions with the French Ministry of Economy and Industry (energy,
regulation, trade, finance and management of development assistance
programs).
Monica Alina Mustra
Lead consultant, International Trade Department, World Bank
Mrs. Mustra joined the World Bank in 2004 and has worked on a number
of the Bank?s trade and transport related projects and learning
products including organization of policy dialogues, workshops,
seminars, and distance learning courses. Most recently she
contributed to the ?Logistics Performance Indicators (LPI)? project
? a global initiative of the World Bank Trade Logistics Group. She
is currently acting as the Coordinator for the Global Facilitation
Partnership for Transportation and Trade (GFP) www.gfptt.org.
Prior
to joining the World Bank she worked for the Harvard Center for
International Development (CID), the European Commission, and the
Romanian Ministry of Finance.
PANELISTS
Marc Juhel
Sector Manager, Transport, World Bank
Mr. Juhel joined the World Bank in 1992 as a Port Specialist.
Before his appointment as the Sector Manager, he held the position
of Transport and Logistics Adviser in this Bank?s central Transport
Division. His specific areas of expertise are the development
planning of port facilities, the economic, financial and
institutional aspects of transport systems, and the integration of
national logistics functions within the international transport
system, focusing in particular on transport and trade facilitation
issues. In addition to managing the work program of the Transport
Unit he is also called on to provide operational guidance to
transport projects undertaken by the Bank. He is the co-leader of
the Ports, Rail, Aviation and Logistics (PRAL) Thematic Group and is
co-manager of the Trade Logistics Group established between the
Bank?s Trade and Transport Departments. Before joining the Bank he
spent 11 years with a French Consulting Group and worked in the
Ivory Coast and Comoros.
Lauri Ojala
Professor of Logistics, Turku School of Economics
Mr. Ojala's research interests include global logistics and
transport policy issues. He has published in several leading
journals of logistics such as the International Journal of Logistics
Management and Physical Distribution (IJLM, IJLM&PD), and Maritime
Policy & Management. Since 2004, and has been the European Editor of
the International Journal of Logistics Management and Physical
Distribution (IJLM&PD). He has worked on numerous research and
development projects on transport and logistics issues for the World
Bank, European Union and OECD, as well as for many governments. He
has extensive experience in transition economies (Caucasus, Central
Asia, Baltic, Moldova) as a consultant for the World Bank. In these
positions he developed the concept of a logistics perception survey,
which was implemented as a pilot in 2003 (70 countries), and
worldwide (150 countries) in 2006. He has also engaged in a number
of industry-related logistics projects and is active in the
promotion of logistics strategy projects with governmental
institutions or the private sector.
Gene Pentimonti
Senior Consultant, Maersk, Inc.
Formerly Senior Vice President, Government Relations
Until his retirement in September 2007, Mr. Pentimonti was Maersk
Inc.'s Senior Vice President, Government Relations, and in that
capacity was responsible for the company?s legislative, regulatory,
and international government affairs. Before joining Maersk Inc. in
2002, he provided intermodal industry consulting to both Parsons
Brinkerhoff and Lockheed Martin IMS Corporation, and then was
president of Pacer Stacktrain, a division of Pacer International.
Beginning in 1996 he was Senior Vice President of the American
Trucking Association and also served as president of their
Intermodal Conference leading their advocacy group of intermodal
motor carriers and associates. Prior to joining the American
Trucking Association he held planning, design, engineering,
development, operational, and management roles for over 25 years
with the American President Lines. He played a key role in the
planning, engineering, and construction of the industry?s shift to
containerization and has played an integral part in the evaluation
and design of vessels. Among his major accomplishments has been the
engineering, construction and operation of the first doublestack
trains.
Alhousseynou Diallo
Economic Counselor, Embassy of Senegal
Mr. Diallo is currently economic counselor at the Embassy of Senegal
in Washington. He is a Senior Customs Official and was until
recently adviser to the Minister of Finance. He has been involved in
the design and implementation of major reforms and facilitation
initiatives in Senegal. He has also taught fiscal policies and
financial management at the University of Dakar.
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About the International Trade Department
The Bank?s trade strategy aims at helping countries benefit from
increased globalization and making the world trading system more
supportive of development. It focuses on integrating trade and
competitiveness into national development strategies through
improving incentives for private investment in tradable sectors
(e.g., reforms in tariffs, and tax policies); reducing the costs of
trading (e.g., improving key producer services and trade
facilitation); and targeted policies to promote competitiveness
(e.g., strengthening standards awareness and management capacities,
and export promotion).
In recent years, the World Bank has scaled up support for
trade-related reform through analytical and advisory services,
sustained policy dialogue, financial assistance, technical
assistance, and capacity building. Bank lending ? concessional and
nonconcessional ? has grown from about US$400 million in total
commitments in FY2000 to about US$1.6 billion in FY06 and FY07,
strongly driven by trade-related infrastructure in support of
regional integration, export development and competitiveness, and
trade facilitation. Loans involved 42 countries and four
multi-country loans, with the majority of lending going to Europe
and Central Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Bank country strategy is complemented and underpinned by a
global agenda of advocacy, analysis, and provision of data, tools,
and training on trade.
For more information, please visit: www.worldbank.org/trade
About the Transport Unit:
The mission of the transport group in the Bank is to assist clients
to reduce poverty by improving the efficiency and equity of
transport policy and interventions. Transport group will work with
the public and private sectors and communities to enhance the
capacity of transport institutions to provide sustainable
infrastructure and services.
The Transport Sector generates a very significant part of the Bank?s
activities. It successfully delivered $33.5 billion (over 14 percent
of WBG portfolio) through the 1998-2007 decade. FY07 lending has
reached $5 billion, amounting to 20 percent of World Bank Group's
new annual commitments.
For more information, please visit: www.worldbank.org/transport
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