Film screening "Rwanda Rising" on June 27 at 3pm in Preston Auditorium

More than a decade after the horrific genocide that claimed the lives of nearly
one million people, Rwanda is emerging as a beacon of hope and model for
economic progress for the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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and
Office of the President, World Bank
invite you to a screening of a 80 minute documentary,
followed by a reception
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| Rwanda Rising | |
| Written and produced by | |
| Ambassador Andrew Young | (Embedded image moved to |
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| RWANDA RISING, captures the | Flag |
| remarkable transformation | |
| underway since the tragic | Wednesday, June 27 , |
| events of 1994. ?Rwanda has | 2007 |
| just made miraculous changes,? | 3:00 pm |
| says Ambassador Young. ?After | Preston Auditorium |
| the genocide, they started from | |
| scratch and wrote a new | |
| constitution. They ended up | |
| with a government that?s 48 | |
| percent female. And they went | |
| about healing the wounds of the | |
| genocide.? | |
| | |
| The documentary features | |
| interviews with former US | |
| President, Bill Clinton; | |
| Rwandan President, Paul Kagame; | |
| composer and musician, Quincy | |
| Jones; World Bank President, | |
| Paul Wolfowitz; and founder and | |
| CEO of Operation Hope, John | |
| Hope Bryant. | |
| | |
| Introductory remarks by | |
| Ambassador Andrew Young Former | |
| US Ambassador to the United | |
| Nations | |
| | |
| Brief Remarks by John Bryant | |
| Founder & CEO, Operation Hope | |
| | |
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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

REMINDER: "Inexcusable Absence" discussed on June 21, 2007 at noon in J1-050

InfoShop and the Human Development Network Vice Presidency, World Bank
Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication from the
Center for Global Development

Inexcusable Absence
Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren't in School and What to Do about It
by Maureen A. Lewis and Marlaine E. Lockheed

Girls' education, indisputably crucial to development, has received a lot of
attention-but surprisingly little hardheaded analysis to inform practical policy
solutions. In Inexcusable Absence, Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed propose
new strategies for reaching the 70 percent of out-of-school girls who are
"doubly disadvantaged" by their ethnicity, language, or other factors. The book
will be an important tool for policymakers, informing interventions that can
make a profound impact on the lives of the 60 million out-of-school girls.

Thursday, June 21, 2007
12:00pm - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building - J1-050
701 18th Street, NW

Chair:
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President and Head of Human Development Network, The World Bank
Prior to this, Joy Phumaphi was Assistant Director General for Family and
Community Health at the World Health Organization and was the Director General's
Representative on Gender Equality. She was also Health Minister of Botswana.

Presenters:
Maureen Lewis
Acting Chief Economist, Human Development Network, The World Bank
Maureen Lewis is Acting Chief Economist for Human Development at the World Bank.
She was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development for two
years and prior to that managed a unit in the World Bank dedicated to economic
policy and human development research and programs in Eastern Europe and Central
Asia. Before joining the World Bank, she established and directed the
International Health and Demographic Policy Unit at the Urban Institute.

Marlaine Lockheed
Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development
Prior to this Marlaine Lockheed was Education Sector Manager and Acting Director
for Education at the World Bank and head of WBI's Evaluation Group. She
currently teaches education policy at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of
International and Public Policy.

Discussants:
Mayra Buvinic
Gender Director, The World Bank
Mayra Buvinic is Sector Director for Gender and Development, PREM Network at the
World Bank. Before joining the Bank in 2005, she worked at the Inter American
Development Bank and is founding member and past President of the International
Center for Research on Women.
Cynthia B. Lloyd
Senior Associate, The Population Council
Cynthia B. Lloyd is a senior associate with the Poverty, Gender, and Youth
program at the Population Council. Her fields of expertise include transitions
to adulthood, children's schooling, gender and population issues, and household
and family demography in developing countries. Lloyd has worked on these issues
extensively in Ghana, Egypt, Kenya, Pakistan, and other developing countries as
well as comparatively. Her recent research has concentrated on school quality in
developing countries and the relationship between school quality, school
attendance, and transitions to adulthood.

Harry Patrinos
Lead Education Economist, The World Bank
Harry Anthony Patrinos is Lead Education Economist at the World Bank. He
specializes in all areas of education, especially school-based management,
demand-side financing and public-private partnerships. He managed education
lending operations and analytical work programs in Argentina, Colombia and
Mexico, as well as a regional research project on the socioeconomic status of
Latin America?s Indigenous Peoples.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

REMINDER: Film Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Julia Kwan: "Eve and the Fire Horse" on June 21, 2007 at 5:30pm in JB1-080 and J1-050

Due to the high demand, this movie will be screened in two locations. Seating
will be on first-come first serve basis.
If you are not a bank staff, Please come early to pick up your badge.

InfoShop, The World Bank Group/IMF Canada Club & The World Bank Group Office
of Diversity Programs Invite you to a film screening
Eve & The Fire Horse
Eve, a precocious nine year old with an overactive imagination, was born in the
year of the Fire Horse, notorious among Chinese families for producing the most
troublesome children. Caught between her 11-year-old authoritative sister's
fantasies of sainthood and cultural confusion and her own sense of right and
wrong, Eve faces the challenges of childhood with fanciful humour and wide-eyed
wonder. Sometimes the most troublesome children are the ones that touch our
hearts most deeply.

Wednesday, June 21, 2007
5:30 - 7:30 pm
World Bank J Building - Lower Level Auditorium JB1-080 and J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

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"Luminous! One of the most beloved films at Sundance this year ? Intelligent,
delicate and touching..." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"An exceptionally talented cast ? including actors from Canada, the U.S. and
Hong Kong ? beautiful cinematography and art direction, attention to detail, and
Kwan's flawless screenplay, make Eve & The Fire Horse one of the most enchanting
and memorable films made in this country." Globe and Mail

"An inspired generational document . Eve & the Fire Horse is such a quiet,
clear-eyed meditation on childhood that you barely notice as it burns its way
into your mind. And when it?s over, you?re left with this magnificent maze of
memory, a latticework of images lifted from the sweet and sombre playground
world of two young sisters." CBC

"Both a finely wrought period piece and a slice of delicately captured
childhood, "Eve & the Fire Horse" reps an exceptional feature debut for young
helmer-scripter Julia Kwan, who loosely based this film on her own experiences
growing up Chinese in the pre-multicultural Vancouver of the 1970s." Variety
________________________________________________________________________________

Discussion with Filmmaker and Director
Julia Kwan
Julia Kwan is a filmmaker living in Vancouver, B.C. A second (or one and half)
generation Chinese-Canadian of immigrant parents. Ms. Kwan was a director
resident at Norman Jewison?s Canadian Film Centre, where she madeher award
winning short, Three Sisters on Moon Lake. In 2005, Ms. Kwan made her feature
film debut with Eve & the Fire Horse, based on her Writer?s Guild of Canada
award-winning script. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto
International Film Festival and its international premiere at the Sundance Film
Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. Eve & The Fire Horse also picked
up awards at the New York AsianAmerican Film Festival, Bendfilm Festival,
Calgary Film Festival and San Diego Asian Film Festival. Mostrecently, Kwan won
the prestigious Claude Jutra Award for best first feature director and received
fivenominations, including best supporting actor and actress, at the Genie
Awards (Canadian Oscars).

Welcoming remarks by
Jeff Chelsky
Canada Club Representative
Jeff Chelsky is a Senior Economist in the European Department of the IMF. Mr.
Chelsky was formerly in the IMF's Independent Evaluation Office and spent 5
years as the Senior Advisor to Canada's Executive Director on the IMF's
Executive Board. Prior to that, Mr. Chelsky worked for the Canada's Department
of Finance and Industry Department in Ottawa.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the World Bank Group/IMFCanada Club
The mandate of the Canada Club is to organize activities and share information
related to Canada among World Bank Group and IMF current and former staff and
relatives, Canadians and people interested in Canada.
About the Office of Diversity Programs
The Office of Diversity Programs is an in-house source of expert advice on
diversity and inclusion. Its goal is to create an inclusive and respectful work
environment that values all human differences and mobilizes them as strategic
business assets in service of poverty reduction. The Office of Diversity
Programs provides guidance on institutional and unit-level strategies to promote
diversity and inclusion, advises on the diversity dimensions of recruitment,
strategic staffing, succession planning, and career development, conducts
research on systemic barriers to inclusion, and shares information on best
practices in diversity management worldwide.
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

REMINDER: Film Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Julia Kwan: "Eve and the Fire Horse" on June 21, 2007 at 5:30pm in JB1-080 and J1-050

Due to the high demand, this movie will be screened in two locations. Seating
will be on first-come first serve basis.
If you are not a bank staff, Please come early to pick up your badge.

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| |Eve, a precocious nine year old with an|
| |overactive imagination, was born in the year of|
| |the Fire Horse, notorious among Chinese families|
| |for producing the most troublesome children.|
| |Caught between her 11-year-old authoritative|
| |sister's fantasies of sainthood and cultural|
| |confusion and her own sense of right and wrong,|
| |Eve faces the challenges of childhood with|
| |fanciful humour and wide-eyed wonder. Sometimes|
| |the most troublesome children are the ones that|
| |touch our hearts most deeply. |
| | |
| | Wednesday, June 21, 2007 |
| | 5:30 - 7:30 pm |
| | |
| | World Bank J Building - Lower Level Auditorium |
| | JB1-080 |
| | & J1-050 |
| | (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and |
| | Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| | |
| | For non bank staff, please RSVP to |
| | InfoShopevents@worldbank.org |
| | |
| | The movie is on sale for $30. |
|----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------|

"Luminous! One of the most beloved films at Sundance this year ?
Intelligent, delicate and touching..." Roger Ebert, Chicago
Sun-Times

"An exceptionally talented cast ? including actors from Canada, the
U.S. and Hong Kong ? beautiful cinematography and art direction,
attention to detail, and Kwan's flawless screenplay, make Eve & The
Fire Horse one of the most enchanting and memorable films made in
this country." Globe and Mail

"An inspired generational document . Eve & the Fire Horse is such a
quiet, clear-eyed meditation on childhood that you barely notice as
it burns its way into your mind. And when it?s over, you?re left
with this magnificent maze of memory, a latticework of images lifted
from the sweet and sombre playground world of two young sisters."
CBC

"Both a finely wrought period piece and a slice of delicately
captured childhood, "Eve & the Fire Horse" reps an exceptional
feature debut for young helmer-scripter Julia Kwan, who loosely
based this film on her own experiences growing up Chinese in the
pre-multicultural Vancouver of the 1970s." Variety
________________________________________________________________________________

Discussion with Filmmaker and Director
Julia Kwan
Julia Kwan is a filmmaker living in Vancouver, B.C. A second (or
one and half) generation Chinese-Canadian of immigrant parents. Ms.
Kwan was a director resident at Norman Jewison?s Canadian Film
Centre, where she madeher award winning short, Three Sisters on Moon
Lake. In 2005, Ms. Kwan made her feature film debut with Eve & the
Fire Horse, based on her Writer?s Guild of Canada award-winning
script. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto
International Film Festival and its international premiere at the
Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. Eve &
The Fire Horse also picked up awards at the New York AsianAmerican
Film Festival, Bendfilm Festival, Calgary Film Festival and San
Diego Asian Film Festival. Mostrecently, Kwan won the prestigious
Claude Jutra Award for best first feature director and received
fivenominations, including best supporting actor and actress, at the
Genie Awards (Canadian Oscars).

Welcoming remarks by
Jeff Chelsky
Canada Club Representative
Jeff Chelsky is a Senior Economist in the European Department of the
IMF. Mr. Chelsky was formerly in the IMF's Independent Evaluation
Office and spent 5 years as the Senior Advisor to Canada's Executive
Director on the IMF's Executive Board. Prior to that, Mr. Chelsky
worked for the Canada's Department of Finance and Industry
Department in Ottawa.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the World Bank Group/IMFCanada Club
The mandate of the Canada Club is to organize activities and share
information related to Canada among World Bank Group and IMF current
and former staff and relatives, Canadians and people interested in
Canada.
About the Office of Diversity Programs
The Office of Diversity Programs is an in-house source of expert
advice on diversity and inclusion. Its goal is to create an
inclusive and respectful work environment that values all human
differences and mobilizes them as strategic business assets in
service of poverty reduction. The Office of Diversity Programs
provides guidance on institutional and unit-level strategies to
promote diversity and inclusion, advises on the diversity dimensions
of recruitment, strategic staffing, succession planning, and career
development, conducts research on systemic barriers to inclusion,
and shares information on best practices in diversity management
worldwide.
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

REMINDER: "Inexcusable Absence" discussed on June 21, 2007 at noon in J1-050

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and the
Human Development Network Vice Presidency, World Bank
Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication from the
Center for Global Development
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| | |
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| moved to file: | Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren't in |
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| | by Maureen A. Lewis and Marlaine E. |
| | Lockheed |
| | |
| | Girls' education, indisputably crucial to |
| | development, has received a lot of |
| | attention-but surprisingly little |
| | hardheaded analysis to inform practical |
| | policy solutions. In Inexcusable Absence, |
| | Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed |
| | propose new strategies for reaching the |
| | 70 percent of out-of-school girls who are |
| | "doubly disadvantaged" by their |
| | ethnicity, language, or other factors. |
| | The book will be an important tool for |
| | policymakers, informing interventions |
| | that can make a profound impact on the |
| | lives of the 60 million out-of-school |
| | girls. |
| | |
| | |
|----------------------+-------------------------------------------|

Thursday, June 21, 2007
12:00pm - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building - J1-050
701 18th Street, NW

Chair:
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President and Head of Human Development Network, The World Bank
Prior to this, Joy Phumaphi was Assistant Director General for
Family and Community Health at the World Health Organization and was
the Director General's Representative on Gender Equality. She was
also Health Minister of Botswana.

Presenters:
Maureen Lewis
Acting Chief Economist, Human Development Network, The World Bank
Maureen Lewis is Acting Chief Economist for Human Development at the
World Bank. She was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Center for
Global Development for two years and prior to that managed a unit in
the World Bank dedicated to economic policy and human development
research and programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Before
joining the World Bank, she established and directed the
International Health and Demographic Policy Unit at the Urban
Institute.

Marlaine Lockheed
Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development
Prior to this Marlaine Lockheed was Education Sector Manager and
Acting Director for Education at the World Bank and head of WBI's
Evaluation Group. She currently teaches education policy at
Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public
Policy.

Discussants:
Mayra Buvinic
Gender Director, The World Bank
Mayra Buvinic is Sector Director for Gender and Development, PREM
Network at the World Bank. Before joining the Bank in 2005, she
worked at the Inter American Development Bank and is founding member
and past President of the International Center for Research on
Women.
Cynthia B. Lloyd
Senior Associate, The Population Council
Cynthia B. Lloyd is a senior associate with the Poverty, Gender, and
Youth program at the Population Council. Her fields of expertise
include transitions to adulthood, children's schooling, gender and
population issues, and household and family demography in developing
countries. Lloyd has worked on these issues extensively in Ghana,
Egypt, Kenya, Pakistan, and other developing countries as well as
comparatively. Her recent research has concentrated on school
quality in developing countries and the relationship between school
quality, school attendance, and transitions to adulthood.

Harry Patrinos
Lead Education Economist, The World Bank
Harry Anthony Patrinos is Lead Education Economist at the World
Bank. He specializes in all areas of education, especially
school-based management, demand-side financing and public-private
partnerships. He managed education lending operations and
analytical work programs in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, as well
as a regional research project on the socioeconomic status of Latin
America?s Indigenous Peoples.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

REMINDER: "Societal Learning and Change" on June 20, 2007 at 12:30pm in J1-050

InfoShop & The World Bank Institute

cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a Greenleaf Press
publication
Societal Learning And Change
Steve Waddell

The world faces unprecedented challenges that will require business, government
and civil society to work and learn together in ways that have never been needed
in the past. This demands bridging gulfs of misunderstanding and distrust that
have build up over generations. No one knows how to do this, but a few brave
explorers like Steve Waddell are showing the way. Societal Learning and Change
provides one of the first comprehensive treatments of the motivations,
processes, pitfalls and possibilities for such change.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
12:30 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
Coffee and Cookies will be served

Welcoming remarks by
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute

Chair
Steen Lau Jorgensen
Director for Social Development, World Bank
Steen Lau Jorgensen has held a number of positions with the Bank, including
Country Economist and Country Officer for Bolivia, advisor to senior management
in the Africa Region, and Sector Manager in the Social Protection team in the
Bank's Human Development Network. He has co-authored strategy papers including
"Empowering People by Transforming Institutions: Social Development in World
Bank Organizations" as well as written academic publications related to socially
sustainable development and community development.

Author
Steve Waddell
Steve Waddell is a researcher, educator, and consultant focusing on large
systems change and global networks. Two key concepts have arisen from his work:
societal learning and change, which is a deep change strategy to address chronic
and complex issues, and global action networks, which are an emerging form of
global governance that address issues requiring deep change. He is co-founder
and co-lead steward of Global Action Network Net (GAN-Net), a global network of
global, multi-stakeholder change networks. Mr. Waddell is also co-founder of
the Institute for Strategic Clarity, co-founder of an executive management
program in leadership and change at Boston College, and Associate of the Center
for Innovation in Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Commentary
Kristalina Georgieva
Director of Strategy and Operations, World Bank's Sustainable Development
Network
Kristalina Georgieva has held a number of positions in Bank operations and on
issues of environment and sustainable development, including Environmental
Economist in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region, Director for Environment
and Social Development in the East Asia and Pacific Region, and Director and
Resident Representative for the Russian Federation in the ECA region. Prior to
joining the Bank, she held academic and consulting positions in Bulgaria, the
United Kingdom, and the US, and has lectured on development topics in a large
number of universities around the world.

Daniel Runde
Head of the Partnership Development Unit, International Finance Corporation
(IFC)
Daniel Runde is responsible for building development partnerships with the
private and corporate philanthropic communities. Prior to joining the Bank, he
ran the Global Development Alliance (GDA) initiative at the US Agency for
International Development (USAID). GDA makes greater use of public-private
partnerships for development and partners have included companies, private
philanthropy, faith-based groups, individual donors and others. Previously Mr.
Runde was Assistant Vice President for Business Development with Citigroup in
Argentina.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

REMINDER: "Societal Learning and Change" on June 20, 2007 at 12:30pm in J1-050

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&
The World Bank Institute

cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a Greenleaf
Press publication
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| | |
| | Societal Learning And Change |
| | Steve Waddell |
| | |
| (Embedded image moved to | The world faces unprecedented |
| file: pic25087.jpg) | challenges that will require |
| | business, government and civil |
| | society to work and learn together |
| | in ways that have never been needed |
| | in the past. This demands bridging |
| | gulfs of misunderstanding and |
| | distrust that have build up over |
| | generations. No one knows how to do |
| | this, but a few brave explorers like |
| | Steve Waddell are showing the way. |
| | Societal Learning and Change |
| | provides one of the first |
| | comprehensive treatments of the |
| | motivations, processes, pitfalls and |
| | possibilities for such change. |
| | |
| | |
| | Wednesday, June 20, 2007 |
| | 12:30 - 2:00pm |
| | World Bank J Building, Auditorium |
| | J1-050 |
| | (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. |
| | and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| | Coffee and Cookies will be served |
| | |
| | |
| | |
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Welcoming remarks by
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute

Chair
Steen Lau Jorgensen
Director for Social Development, World Bank
Steen Lau Jorgensen has held a number of positions with the Bank,
including Country Economist and Country Officer for Bolivia, advisor
to senior management in the Africa Region, and Sector Manager in the
Social Protection team in the Bank's Human Development Network. He
has co-authored strategy papers including "Empowering People by
Transforming Institutions: Social Development in World Bank
Organizations" as well as written academic publications related to
socially sustainable development and community development.

Author
Steve Waddell
Steve Waddell is a researcher, educator, and consultant focusing on
large systems change and global networks. Two key concepts have
arisen from his work: societal learning and change, which is a deep
change strategy to address chronic and complex issues, and global
action networks, which are an emerging form of global governance
that address issues requiring deep change. He is co-founder and
co-lead steward of Global Action Network Net (GAN-Net), a global
network of global, multi-stakeholder change networks. Mr. Waddell
is also co-founder of the Institute for Strategic Clarity,
co-founder of an executive management program in leadership and
change at Boston College, and Associate of the Center for Innovation
in Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Commentary
Kristalina Georgieva
Director of Strategy and Operations, World Bank's Sustainable Development
Network
Kristalina Georgieva has held a number of positions in Bank
operations and on issues of environment and sustainable development,
including Environmental Economist in the Europe and Central Asia
(ECA) Region, Director for Environment and Social Development in the
East Asia and Pacific Region, and Director and Resident
Representative for the Russian Federation in the ECA region. Prior
to joining the Bank, she held academic and consulting positions in
Bulgaria, the United Kingdom, and the US, and has lectured on
development topics in a large number of universities around the
world.

Daniel Runde
Head of the Partnership Development Unit, International Finance Corporation
(IFC)
Daniel Runde is responsible for building development partnerships
with the private and corporate philanthropic communities. Prior to
joining the Bank, he ran the Global Development Alliance (GDA)
initiative at the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
GDA makes greater use of public-private partnerships for development
and partners have included companies, private philanthropy,
faith-based groups, individual donors and others. Previously Mr.
Runde was Assistant Vice President for Business Development with
Citigroup in Argentina.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

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