"Prosperity Unbound" discussed on December 16 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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"Prosperity Unbound" discussed on December 16 at 3:00 PM in J1-050 at the World
Bank.
Please see attached invitation for more information.

(See attached file: 12-16Draft1.pdf)

Elena Panaritis
Director, Panel Group
Ms. Panaritis is a leading expert in property rights, transformation of
illiquid real estate assets, and public sector management. She currently heads
Panel Group, a specialized advisory group that invests in undervalued property
and provides counsel on transforming informal real estate and related public
policy. She lectures on housing finance and public policy reform, with a focus
on property and institutions, at INSEAD, Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International
Studies, and elsewhere. In her eleven years working as an economist at the World
Bank, she spearheaded property rights reform in Peru.

Francis Fukuyama
Professor, International Political Economy, SAIS Johns Hopkins University
Mr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues relating to questions concerning
political and economic development. His book, The End of History and the Last
Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign
editions. It made the bestseller lists in the United States, France, Japan, and
Chile, and has been awarded the Los Angeles Times' Book Critics Award in the
Current Interest category, as well as the Premio Capri for the Italian edition.
He is also the author of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of
Prosperity (1995), The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of
Social Order (1999), Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology
Revolution (2002), State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st
Century, (2004), and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the
Neoconservative Legacy (2006).

Klaus Deininger
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Deininger is a Lead Economist in the rural development group of the
Development Economics Group. His areas of research focus on income and asset
inequality and its relationship to poverty reduction and growth; access to land,
land markets and land reform and their impact on household welfare and
agricultural productivity; land tenure and its impact on investment, including
environmental sustainability; and capacity building (including the use of
quantitative and qualitative methods) for policy analysis and evaluation, mainly
in the Africa, Central America, and East Asia Regions.

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, Senator
Hagel, and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER. Publication Launch "European Health Systems and Policies" on December 3 at noon in the InfoShop Bookstore

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Please come to the InfoShop bookstore for the Publication Launch

"European Health Systems and Policies"
on Wednesday, December 3 at noon

Invitation attached.

(See attached file: 12-3Reminder.pdf)

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, Senator
Hagel, and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER. Publication Launch "European Health Systems and Policies" on December 3 at noon in the InfoShop Bookstore

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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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

Reminder. SPECIAL EVENT: "Teach Africa" on Tuesday, December 2nd at Preston Auditorium

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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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

Publication Launch "European Health Systems and Policies" on December 3 at noon in the InfoShop Bookstore

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(See attached file: 12-3Invitation.pdf)

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

Publication Launch "European Health Systems and Policies" on December 3 at noon in the InfoShop Bookstore

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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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER: "Alliance Curse" discussed on Tuesday, November 25 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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(See attached file: AllianceCursePoster.pdf)

AUTHOR
Hilton Root
Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
Mr. Root, an academic and policy specialist in international
political economy and development, joined George Mason University in
the summer of 2006. He served the current U.S. administration as the
U.S. Executive Director Designate of the Asian Development Bank, and
as senior advisor on development finance to the Department of the
Treasury. Mr. Root was Director and Senior Fellow of Global Studies
at the Milken Institute and was a Senior Research Fellow and
Director of the Initiative on Economic Growth and Democracy at the
Hoover Institution. His areas of expertise are international
economics, economic development and policy reform, and Asian
affairs. As a policy expert, Mr. Root advises the Asian Development
Bank, the IMF, the World Bank, the UNDP, the OECD, the U.S. State
Department, the U.S. Treasury Department, and USAID. He taught at
the University of Michigan, California Institute of Technology, the
University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University. Mr. Root has
published six books and more than 100 articles.

MODERATOR
Brian Levy
Advisor, Governance, (PREM) World Bank
Mr. Levy is the author of Governance Reform: Bridging Monitoring and
Action (World Bank, 2007), which builds on his 2006 work on
governance monitoring featured in the 2006 Global Monitoring Report,
Mutual Accountability: Aid, Trade and Governance. He worked in the
World Bank's Africa Vice Presidency from 1991 to 2003 on the
challenges of strengthening the institutional underpinnings of
African development. For the last four years, he worked as sector
manager of the Africa Public Sector Reform and Capacity Building
Unit. He was a member of the core team which produced the World
Bank?s 1997 World Development Report, The State in a Changing World.
He has published numerous books and articles on the interactions
between public institutions, the private sector and development in
Africa, East Asia, and elsewhere. Prior to joining the World Bank,
he was assistant professor in development economics at Williams
College in Williamstown, MA.

DISCUSSANT
Simeon Djankov
Chief Economist, Financial & Private Sector Development, World Bank
Mr. Djankov is the Chief Economist of the Financial and Private
Sector Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group. He is also the
creator of the Doing Businessseries. In his 13 years at the World
Bank, Mr. Djankov has worked on regional trade agreements in North
Africa, enterprise restructuring and privatization in transition
economies, corporate governance in East Asia, and regulatory reforms
around the world. He was a principal author of the World Development
Report 2002. Mr. Djankov has published over 60 articles in
academic journals, including Quarterly Journal of Economics,
American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial
Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Comparative
Economics.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER: "Alliance Curse" discussed on Tuesday, November 25 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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AUTHOR
Hilton Root
Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
Mr. Root, an academic and policy specialist in international
political economy and development, joined George Mason University in
the summer of 2006. He served the current U.S. administration as the
U.S. Executive Director Designate of the Asian Development Bank, and
as senior advisor on development finance to the Department of the
Treasury. Mr. Root was Director and Senior Fellow of Global Studies
at the Milken Institute and was a Senior Research Fellow and
Director of the Initiative on Economic Growth and Democracy at the
Hoover Institution. His areas of expertise are international
economics, economic development and policy reform, and Asian
affairs. As a policy expert, Mr. Root advises the Asian Development
Bank, the IMF, the World Bank, the UNDP, the OECD, the U.S. State
Department, the U.S. Treasury Department, and USAID. He taught at
the University of Michigan, California Institute of Technology, the
University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University. Mr. Root has
published six books and more than 100 articles.

MODERATOR
Brian Levy
Advisor, Governance, (PREM) World Bank
Mr. Levy is the author of Governance Reform: Bridging Monitoring and
Action (World Bank, 2007), which builds on his 2006 work on
governance monitoring featured in the 2006 Global Monitoring Report,
Mutual Accountability: Aid, Trade and Governance. He worked in the
World Bank's Africa Vice Presidency from 1991 to 2003 on the
challenges of strengthening the institutional underpinnings of
African development. For the last four years, he worked as sector
manager of the Africa Public Sector Reform and Capacity Building
Unit. He was a member of the core team which produced the World
Bank?s 1997 World Development Report, The State in a Changing World.
He has published numerous books and articles on the interactions
between public institutions, the private sector and development in
Africa, East Asia, and elsewhere. Prior to joining the World Bank,
he was assistant professor in development economics at Williams
College in Williamstown, MA.

DISCUSSANT
Simeon Djankov
Chief Economist, Financial & Private Sector Development, World Bank
Mr. Djankov is the Chief Economist of the Financial and Private
Sector Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group. He is also the
creator of the Doing Businessseries. In his 13 years at the World
Bank, Mr. Djankov has worked on regional trade agreements in North
Africa, enterprise restructuring and privatization in transition
economies, corporate governance in East Asia, and regulatory reforms
around the world. He was a principal author of the World Development
Report 2002. Mr. Djankov has published over 60 articles in
academic journals, including Quarterly Journal of Economics,
American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial
Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Comparative
Economics.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

SPECIAL EVENT: "Teach Africa" on Tuesday, December 2nd at Preston Auditorium

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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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

SPECIAL EVENT: "Teach Africa" on Tuesday, December 2nd at Preston Auditorium

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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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER: "From Poverty to Power" discussed on Wednesday, November 19 at 12:00 PM in Preston Auditorium

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Sandwiches will be served

(See attached file: FromPovertyToPowerFIN.pdf)

Please visit the book's blog, which is written and maintained by the
author.

CHAIR
Jeff Thindwa
Senior Civil Society Specialist, Civil Society Team, World Bank
Mr. Thindwa began his career as a legal aid lawyer in Malawi and
subsequently worked in the NGO community, leading the Council for
Non-Governmental Organizations in Malawi. He later worked with World
Vision, and for 10 years was the Director of International Programs
for World Vision United Kingdom, before joining the World Bank?s
Social Development Department in 2000 as a Senior Social Development
Specialist. Later, he became the Team Leader of the Participation
and Civic Engagement Team, which promotes demand-side engagement for
improved governance. Now, he is a Senior Civil Society Specialist in
the World Bank?s Civil Society Team, which coordinates the Bank?s
civil society engagement work at the global level.

AUTHOR
Duncan Green
Head of Research, Oxfam Great Britain
Mr. Green was previously a Senior Policy Adviser on Trade and
Development at the Department for International Development (DFID),
where he covered agricultural and non-agricultural trade in goods.
He went to DFID on secondment from CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency
for England and Wales, where he was a Policy Analyst on trade and
globalization. Prior to going to DFID, he was also Head of Research
and Engagement at the Just Pensions project on socially responsible
investment, an advisory board member of the Globalisation and
Poverty Programme, and a board member of the Ethical Trading
Initiative.

DISCUSSANTS
Shantayanan Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Since joining the World Bank in 1991, Mr. Devarajan has been a
Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the
Development Research Group, the Chief Economist of the Human
Development Network, and of the South Asia Region. He was the
director of the World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work
for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty at Harvard
University?s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author and
co-author of over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan?s research covers
public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the
environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing
countries.

John Sewell
Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Chair, Board of New Rules for Global Finance
Mr. Sewell's current research analyses how globalization has
affected the American national interests in the developing world and
the changes in U.S. development policy that are needed to deal with
the challenges of the 21st Century. He has recently published a
Wilson Center policy paper entitled, The Realpolitik of Ending
Poverty: An Action Plan for American Foreign Policy. Mr. Sewell is
the former President of the Overseas Development Council (ODC). He
has written extensively on globalization and development issues and
on American foreign policy, and advises several projects dealing
with reform of the international finance and trade architecture. In
addition, he chairs the Board of New Rules for Global Finance, a
Washington-based NGO, working on reform of the international
financial institutions.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER: "From Poverty to Power" discussed on Wednesday, November 19 at 12:00 PM in Preston Auditorium

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Sandwiches will be served

Please visit the book's blog, which is written and maintained by the
author.

CHAIR
Jeff Thindwa
Senior Civil Society Specialist, Civil Society Team, World Bank
Mr. Thindwa began his career as a legal aid lawyer in Malawi and
subsequently worked in the NGO community, leading the Council for
Non-Governmental Organizations in Malawi. He later worked with World
Vision, and for 10 years was the Director of International Programs
for World Vision United Kingdom, before joining the World Bank?s
Social Development Department in 2000 as a Senior Social Development
Specialist. Later, he became the Team Leader of the Participation
and Civic Engagement Team, which promotes demand-side engagement for
improved governance. Now, he is a Senior Civil Society Specialist in
the World Bank?s Civil Society Team, which coordinates the Bank?s
civil society engagement work at the global level.

AUTHOR
Duncan Green
Head of Research, Oxfam Great Britain
Mr. Green was previously a Senior Policy Adviser on Trade and
Development at the Department for International Development (DFID),
where he covered agricultural and non-agricultural trade in goods.
He went to DFID on secondment from CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency
for England and Wales, where he was a Policy Analyst on trade and
globalization. Prior to going to DFID, he was also Head of Research
and Engagement at the Just Pensions project on socially responsible
investment, an advisory board member of the Globalisation and
Poverty Programme, and a board member of the Ethical Trading
Initiative.

DISCUSSANTS
Shantayanan Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Since joining the World Bank in 1991, Mr. Devarajan has been a
Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the
Development Research Group, the Chief Economist of the Human
Development Network, and of the South Asia Region. He was the
director of the World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work
for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty at Harvard
University?s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author and
co-author of over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan?s research covers
public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the
environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing
countries.

John Sewell
Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Chair, Board of New Rules for Global Finance
Mr. Sewell's current research analyses how globalization has
affected the American national interests in the developing world and
the changes in U.S. development policy that are needed to deal with
the challenges of the 21st Century. He has recently published a
Wilson Center policy paper entitled, The Realpolitik of Ending
Poverty: An Action Plan for American Foreign Policy. Mr. Sewell is
the former President of the Overseas Development Council (ODC). He
has written extensively on globalization and development issues and
on American foreign policy, and advises several projects dealing
with reform of the international finance and trade architecture. In
addition, he chairs the Board of New Rules for Global Finance, a
Washington-based NGO, working on reform of the international
financial institutions.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER: "Development Communication Sourcebook" discussed on November 18 at 2:00 PM in J1-050

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AUTHOR
Paolo Mefalopulos
Senior Communications Officer, Development Communication Division,
World Bank
Mr. Mefalopulos has been working in the field of development
communication for almost twenty years both at a theoretical and
practical level. His main focus of expertise resides in the
application of the strategic use of participatory communication for
development projects and programs. He has worked extensively in
Southern Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Mr.
Mefalopulos is one of the founders of the innovative methodology
known as PRCA (Participatory Rural Communication Appraisal), which
is currently used by a number of international organizations
worldwide. He is the co-author of the book, "Participatory Rural
Communication Appraisal: starting with the people." He also wrote
two other books entitled, "Participatory Communication Strategy
Design" and "Introduccion a la Comunicacion Participativa para el
Desarrollo Sostenible."

PANELISTS
Varadarajan Atur
Lead Energy Specialist, Energy Department of the African Region,
World Bank
Mr. Atur joined the South Asia Power group of the World Bank in 1986
to assist in the financial analysis of operations in Bangladesh,
Burma, and Sri Lanka. As a key member of the team, he contributed to
the development and adoption of electricity tariff policy in
Bangladesh. In the Middle East and North Africa Region, he worked on
the power sector in Turkey, where he designed and helped implement
the financial restructuring of the public power utility and
structured financing for a private sector hydro power project.
Subsequently, in the Europe and Central Asia Region, he designed the
Bank's assistance strategy for telecommunications in Bulgaria and
Romania. Prior to joining the World Bank, he had management and
consulting experience in the engineering and chemical industries, as
well as academic experience teaching in the graduate business school
in India.

J.P. Singh
Associate Professor, Communication, Culture and Technology,
Georgetown University
Mr. Singh is Associate Professor at the graduate program in
Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University and
Editor of the Review of Policy Research: The Politics and Policy of
Science and Technology. He is the author of Negotiation and the
Global Information Economy (Cambridge 2008), Leapfrogging
Development? The Political Economy of Telecommunications
Restructuring (SUNY 1999), and co-editor of Information Technologies
and Global Politics (with James N. Rosenau, 2002).

Sumir Lal
Head, Internal Communications, World Bank
Prior this his current position, Mr. Lal was the World Bank's Senior
External Affairs Officer for India at its New Delhi office during
2000-2006, where he played a pioneering role in introducing
political analysis and risk management into project design and
analytical work across a number of sectors. His path-breaking paper
on the politics of power sector reform continues to guide the
regional management's thinking on this issue. Before joining the
World Bank, he was an award-winning political and current affairs
journalist in India from 1982 to 2000, and held senior editorial
positions in leading national newspapers.

Paul Mitchell
Manager, Development Communication Division, World Bank
Mr. Mitchell is an internationally recognized expert in development
communication with more than 30 years of experience in political
risk analysis and management; change management; economic, utility,
judicial, and public administrative reform; and also strategic
communications, participatory processes, and public consultation. He
has led several global consultation processes for major Bank policy
reforms, such as the disclosure policy and the development policy
lending reform. He has worked in more than 50 countries and more
than 150 development projects assisting governments on difficult
reform programs and high risk projects. Additionally, he has
written and published numerous papers, books and other material on
communication along with more than 60 films and television programs.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"Alliance Curse" discussed on Tuesday, November 25 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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AUTHOR
Hilton Root
Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
Mr. Root, an academic and policy specialist in international
political economy and development, joined George Mason University in
summer of 2006. He served the current U.S. administration as the
U.S. Executive Director Designate of the Asian Development Bank, and
as senior advisor on development finance to the Department of the
Treasury. Mr. Root was Director and Senior Fellow of Global Studies
at the Milken Institute and was a Senior Research Fellow and
Director of the Initiative on Economic Growth and Democracy at the
Hoover Institution. His areas of expertise are international
economics, economic development and policy reform, and Asian
affairs. As a policy expert, Mr. Root advises the Asian Development
Bank, the IMF, the World Bank, the UNDP, the OECD, the U.S. State
Department, the U.S. Treasury Department, and USAID. He taught at
the University of Michigan, California Institute of Technology, the
University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University. Mr. Root has
published six books and more than 100 articles.

MODERATOR
Brian Levy
Advisor, Governance, (PREM) World Bank
Mr. Levy is the author of Governance Reform: Bridging Monitoring and
Action (World Bank, 2007), which builds on his 2006 work on
governance monitoring featured in the 2006 Global Monitoring Report,
Mutual Accountability: Aid, Trade and Governance. He worked in the
World Bank's Africa Vice Presidency from 1991 to 2003 on the
challenges of strengthening the institutional underpinnings of
African development. For the last four years, he worked as sector
manager of the Africa Public Sector Reform and Capacity Building
Unit. He was a member of the core team which produced the World
Bank?s 1997 World Development Report, The State in a Changing World.
He has published numerous books and articles on the interactions
between public institutions, the private sector and development in
Africa, East Asia, and elsewhere. Prior to joining the World Bank,
he was assistant professor in development economics at Williams
College in Williamstown, MA.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER - "Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations" Monday, November 17th at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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PRESENTING AUTHOR
Raymond Fisman
Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and
Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia
Business School
Mr. Fisman worked as a consultant in the Africa Division of the
World Bank for a year before moving to Columbia in 1999. His
research focuses on corruption and more broadly on what makes people
do bad things (he also sometimes thinks about why people do good
things). His work has been published in leading economics journals,
including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy
, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He writes a monthly column for
Slate magazine. Economic Gangsters. is his first book.

OPENING REMARKS
Daniel Kaufmann
Director, World Bank Institute
Regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and adviser to countries
on governance and development, Mr. Kaufmann, with his team, has
pioneered new approaches to analyze country governance as well as
survey methodologies and indicators for good governance and
anti-corruption programs around the world. He heads the work on
Global Governance and Anti-Corruption, and previously held positions
at the World Bank which include managing a team on Finance,
Regulation and Governance, heading capacity building for Latin
America, and also serving as Lead Economist both in economies in
transition as well as in the Bank's research department. He is also
a member of the World Economic Forum (DAVOS) faculty.

MODERATOR
Tim Steele
Senior Governance Specialist, World Bank,
Mr. Steele is currently a senior governance specialist in the
Secretariat to the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative. He is on
special assignment from the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime. He previously headed the anti-corruption work stream at the
UK Department of International Development. A Forensic Accountant by
training, Tim learnt his trade investigating the demise of the Bank
of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).In post -apartheid South
Africa he was persuaded to work within the public sector to build
financial investigation capacity. Having expended considerable
effort on an investigation that led to the successful prosecution of
a Cabinet Minister, Tim decided he time would be better spent
working to reform the institutions that allow or even encourage
corruption. In the last 15 years, he has worked within the
governments of South Africa, Kenya, Namibia and Zambia.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"Alliance Curse" discussed on Tuesday, November 25 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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Reception to follow the presentation

AUTHOR
Hilton Root
Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
Mr. Root, an academic and policy specialist in international
political economy and development, joined George Mason University in
summer of 2006. He served the current U.S. administration as the
U.S. Executive Director Designate of the Asian Development Bank, and
as senior advisor on development finance to the Department of the
Treasury. Mr. Root was Director and Senior Fellow of Global Studies
at the Milken Institute and was a Senior Research Fellow and
Director of the Initiative on Economic Growth and Democracy at the
Hoover Institution. His areas of expertise are international
economics, economic development and policy reform, and Asian
affairs. As a policy expert, Mr. Root advises the Asian Development
Bank, the IMF, the World Bank, the UNDP, the OECD, the U.S. State
Department, the U.S. Treasury Department, and USAID. He taught at
the University of Michigan, California Institute of Technology, the
University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University. Mr. Root has
published six books and more than 100 articles.

MODERATOR
Brian Levy
Advisor, Governance, (PREM) World Bank
Mr. Levy is the author of Governance Reform: Bridging Monitoring and
Action (World Bank, 2007), which builds on his 2006 work on
governance monitoring featured in the 2006 Global Monitoring Report,
Mutual Accountability: Aid, Trade and Governance. He worked in the
World Bank's Africa Vice Presidency from 1991 to 2003 on the
challenges of strengthening the institutional underpinnings of
African development. For the last four years, he worked as sector
manager of the Africa Public Sector Reform and Capacity Building
Unit. He was a member of the core team which produced the World
Bank?s 1997 World Development Report, The State in a Changing World.
He has published numerous books and articles on the interactions
between public institutions, the private sector and development in
Africa, East Asia, and elsewhere. Prior to joining the World Bank,
he was assistant professor in development economics at Williams
College in Williamstown, MA.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER: Joint Book Launch on "The Impact of Private Sector Participation" on November 13 at noon in JB1-080

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CHAIR
Laura Tuck
Sector Director, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Ms. Tuck works in the Sustainable Development Department, which is
responsible for transport, energy, urban development, water
resources management and water supply/sanitation, agriculture and
rural development, social development and environment. This
department is also responsible for climate change and GEF. Before
she moved to the Latin America Region, Ms. Tuck was the Director for
Sustainable Development in ECA.

AUTHORS
Luis Guasch
Senior Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Mr. Guasch is responsible for the areas of competitiveness,
regulation, infrastructure, innovation, and technological
development, and is also a Professor of Economics at the University
of California, San Diego. In addition, he heads the World Bank
Infrastructure Regulation Thematic Group.

Katharina Gassner
Senior Economist, Finance Economics and Urban Department, World Bank
Ms. Gassner is an expert in network regulation and has worked in
various areas relating to infrastructure, including policy and
sector reform advice, public-private service delivery options,
applied regulatory studies, and econometric research. She has
developed standard guidelines for infrastructure assessment reports
in energy and water, and has undertaken country studies in public
finance and the cost of infrastructure service delivery to
governments.

DISCUSSANTS
Marianne Fay
Co-Director, World Development Report 2010 on Climate Change, World
Bank
Prior to her current position, Ms. Fay was a Lead Economist in the
Office of the Chief Economist for ECA, where she worked on
infrastructure and more recently, adaptation to climate change and
the Lead Economist for the Finance, Infrastructure, and Private
Sector Development Department in LCR. Her research has mostly
focused on the role of infrastructure and urbanization in
development, and more recently on urban poverty issues.

John Nellis
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Principal, International Analytics
Mr. Nellis, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Center for Global
Development, and a Principal in the research and consulting firm,
International Analytics, co-directed (with Nancy Birdsall) the
Center for Global Development's Project on Privatization. From 1984
to 2000 Mr. Nellis was at the World Bank, where he designed and
implemented projects and conducted and managed research on:
governance, public management, state-owned enterprise reform, and
privatization issues.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER - "Courting Social Justice" discussed on Wednesday, November 12 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

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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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER - "Courting Social Justice" discussed on Wednesday, November 12 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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Coffee and cookies will be served

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations" Monday, November 17th at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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PRESENTING AUTHOR
Raymond Fisman
Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and
Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia
Business School.
Professor Fisman worked as a consultant in the Africa Division of
the World Bank for a year before moving to Columbia in 1999.
Professor Fisman's research focuses on corruption and more broadly
on what makes people do bad things (he also sometimes thinks about
why people do good things). His work has been published in leading
economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal
of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He writes
a monthly column for Slate magazine. Economic Gangsters. is his
first book.

PANELISTS
TBA

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations" Monday, November 17th at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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PRESENTING AUTHOR
Raymond Fisman
Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and
Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia
Business School.
Professor Fisman worked as a consultant in the Africa Division of
the World Bank for a year before moving to Columbia in 1999.
Professor Fisman's research focuses on corruption and more broadly
on what makes people do bad things (he also sometimes thinks about
why people do good things). His work has been published in leading
economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal
of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He writes
a monthly column for Slate magazine. Economic Gangsters. is his
first book.

PANELISTS
TBA

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"From Poverty to Power" discussed on November 19 at 12:00 PM in Preston Auditorium

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AUTHOR
Duncan Green
Head of Research at Oxfam Great Britain
Mr. Green was previously a Senior Policy Adviser on Trade and
Development at the Department for International Development (DFID),
where he covered agricultural and non-agricultural trade in goods.
He went to DFID on secondment from CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency
for England and Wales, where he was a Policy Analyst on trade and
globalization. Prior to going to DFID, he was also Head of Research
and Engagement at the Just Pensions project on socially responsible
investment, an advisory board member of the Globalisation and
Poverty Programme, and a board member of the Ethical Trading
Initiative.

DISCUSSANT
John Sewell
Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Chair, Board of New Rules for Global Finance
Mr. Sewell's current research analyses how globalization has
affected the American national interests in the developing world and
the changes in U.S. development policy that are needed to deal with
the challenges of the 21st Century. He has recently published a
Wilson Center policy paper entitled The Realpolitik of Ending
Poverty: An Action Plan for American Foreign Policy. Mr. Sewell is
the former President of the Overseas Development Council (ODC). He
has written extensively on globalization and development issues and
on American foreign, and advises several projects dealing with
reform of the international finance and trade architecture. In
addition, he serves as Chair the Board of New Rules for Global
Finance, a Washington-based NGO working on reform of the
international financial institutions.

Additional panelists to be confirmed.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"From Poverty to Power" discussed on November 19 at 12:00 PM in Preston Auditorium

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Refreshments will be served

Please visit the book's blog, which is written and maintained by the
author.

AUTHOR
Duncan Green
Head of Research at Oxfam Great Britain
Mr. Green was previously a Senior Policy Adviser on Trade and
Development at the Department for International Development (DFID),
where he covered agricultural and non-agricultural trade in goods.
He went to DFID on secondment from CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency
for England and Wales, where he was a Policy Analyst on trade and
globalization. Prior to going to DFID, he was also Head of Research
and Engagement at the Just Pensions project on socially responsible
investment, an advisory board member of the Globalisation and
Poverty Programme, and a board member of the Ethical Trading
Initiative.

DISCUSSANT
John Sewell
Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Chair, Board of New Rules for Global Finance
Mr. Sewell's current research analyses how globalization has
affected the American national interests in the developing world and
the changes in U.S. development policy that are needed to deal with
the challenges of the 21st Century. He has recently published a
Wilson Center policy paper entitled The Realpolitik of Ending
Poverty: An Action Plan for American Foreign Policy. Mr. Sewell is
the former President of the Overseas Development Council (ODC). He
has written extensively on globalization and development issues and
on American foreign, and advises several projects dealing with
reform of the international finance and trade architecture. In
addition, he serves as Chair the Board of New Rules for Global
Finance, a Washington-based NGO working on reform of the
international financial institutions.

Additional panelists to be confirmed.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"Development Communication Sourcebook" discussed on November 18 at 2:00 PM in J1-050

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Please RSVP by sending an email to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

AUTHOR
Paolo Mefalopulos
Senior Communications Officer, Development Communication Division,
World Bank
Mr. Mefalopulos has been working in the field of development
communication for almost twenty years both at a theoretical and
practical level. His main focus of expertise resides in the
application of the strategic use of participatory communication for
development projects and programs. He has worked extensively in
Southern Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Mr.
Mefalopulos is one of the founders of the innovative methodology
known as PRCA (Participatory Rural Communication Appraisal), which
is currently used by a number of international organizations
worldwide. He is the co-author of the book, "?Participatory Rural
Communication Appraisal: starting with the people." He also wrote
two other books entitled, "Participatory Communication Strategy
Design" and "Introduccion a la Comunicacion Participativa para el
Desarrollo Sostenible."

PANELISTS
Varadarajan Atur
Lead Energy Specialist, Energy Department of the African Region,
World Bank
Mr. Atur joined the South Asia Power group of the World Bank in 1986
to assist in the financial analysis of operations in Bangladesh,
Burma, and Sri Lanka. As a key member of the team, he contributed to
the development and adoption of electricity tariff policy in
Bangladesh. In the Middle East and North Africa Region, he worked on
the power sector in Turkey, where he designed and helped implement
the financial restructuring of the public power utility and
structured financing for a private sector hydro power project.
Subsequently, in the Europe and Central Asia Region, he designed the
Bank's assistance strategy for telecommunications in Bulgaria and
Romania. Prior to joining the World Bank, he had management and
consulting experience in the engineering and chemical industries, as
well as academic experience teaching in the graduate business school
in India.

J.P. Singh
Associate Professor, Communication, Culture and Technology,
Georgetown University
Mr. Singh is Associate Professor at the graduate program in
Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University and
Editor of the Review of Policy Research: The Politics and Policy of
Science and Technology. He is the author of Negotiation and the
Global Information Economy (Cambridge 2008), Leapfrogging
Development? The Political Economy of Telecommunications
Restructuring (SUNY 1999), and co-editor of Information Technologies
and Global Politics (with James N. Rosenau, 2002).

Sumir Lal
Head, Internal Communications, World Bank
Prior this his current position, Mr. Lal was the World Bank's Senior
External Affairs Officer for India at its New Delhi office during
2000-2006, where he played a pioneering role in introducing
political analysis and risk management into project design and
analytical work across a number of sectors. His path-breaking paper
on the politics of power sector reform continues to guide the
regional management's thinking on this issue. Before joining the
World Bank, he was an award-winning political and current affairs
journalist in India from 1982 to 2000, and held senior editorial
positions in leading national newspapers.

Paul Mitchell
Manager, Development Communication Division, World Bank
Mr. Mitchell is an internationally recognized expert in development
communication with more than 30 years of experience in political
risk analysis and management; change management; economic, utility,
judicial, and public administrative reform; and also strategic
communications, participatory processes, and public consultation. He
has led several global consultation processes for major Bank policy
reforms, such as the disclosure policy and the development policy
lending reform. He has worked in more than 50 countries and more
than 150 development projects assisting governments on difficult
reform programs and high risk projects. Additionally, he has
written and published numerous papers, books and other material on
communication along with more than 60 films and television programs.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"Development Communication Sourcebook" discussed on November 18 at 2:00 PM in J1-050

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AUTHOR
Paolo Mefalopulos
Senior Communications Officer, Development Communication Division,
World Bank
Mr. Mefalopulos has been working in the field of development
communication for almost twenty years both at a theoretical and
practical level. His main focus of expertise resides in the
application of the strategic use of participatory communication for
development projects and programs. He has worked extensively in
Southern Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Mr.
Mefalopulos is one of the founders of the innovative methodology
known as PRCA (Participatory Rural Communication Appraisal), which
is currently used by a number of international organizations
worldwide. He is the co-author of the book, "Participatory Rural
Communication Appraisal: starting with the people." He also wrote
two other books entitled, "Participatory Communication Strategy
Design" and "Introduccion a la Comunicacion Participativa para el
Desarrollo Sostenible."

PANELISTS
Varadarajan Atur
Lead Energy Specialist, Energy Department of the African Region,
World Bank
Mr. Atur joined the South Asia Power group of the World Bank in 1986
to assist in the financial analysis of operations in Bangladesh,
Burma, and Sri Lanka. As a key member of the team, he contributed to
the development and adoption of electricity tariff policy in
Bangladesh. In the Middle East and North Africa Region, he worked on
the power sector in Turkey, where he designed and helped implement
the financial restructuring of the public power utility and
structured financing for a private sector hydro power project.
Subsequently, in the Europe and Central Asia Region, he designed the
Bank's assistance strategy for telecommunications in Bulgaria and
Romania. Prior to joining the World Bank, he had management and
consulting experience in the engineering and chemical industries, as
well as academic experience teaching in the graduate business school
in India.

J.P. Singh
Associate Professor, Communication, Culture and Technology,
Georgetown University
Mr. Singh is Associate Professor at the graduate program in
Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University and
Editor of the Review of Policy Research: The Politics and Policy of
Science and Technology. He is the author of Negotiation and the
Global Information Economy (Cambridge 2008), Leapfrogging
Development? The Political Economy of Telecommunications
Restructuring (SUNY 1999), and co-editor of Information Technologies
and Global Politics (with James N. Rosenau, 2002).

Sumir Lal
Head, Internal Communications, World Bank
Prior this his current position, Mr. Lal was the World Bank's Senior
External Affairs Officer for India at its New Delhi office during
2000-2006, where he played a pioneering role in introducing
political analysis and risk management into project design and
analytical work across a number of sectors. His path-breaking paper
on the politics of power sector reform continues to guide the
regional management's thinking on this issue. Before joining the
World Bank, he was an award-winning political and current affairs
journalist in India from 1982 to 2000, and held senior editorial
positions in leading national newspapers.

Paul Mitchell
Manager, Development Communication Division, World Bank
Mr. Mitchell is an internationally recognized expert in development
communication with more than 30 years of experience in political
risk analysis and management; change management; economic, utility,
judicial, and public administrative reform; and also strategic
communications, participatory processes, and public consultation. He
has led several global consultation processes for major Bank policy
reforms, such as the disclosure policy and the development policy
lending reform. He has worked in more than 50 countries and more
than 150 development projects assisting governments on difficult
reform programs and high risk projects. Additionally, he has
written and published numerous papers, books and other material on
communication along with more than 60 films and television programs.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"Courting Social Justice" discussed on Wednesday, November 12 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

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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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

Joint Book Launch on "The Impact of Private Sector Participation" on November 13 at noon in JB1-080

Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

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PANELISTS
Luis Guasch
Senior Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Mr. Guasch is responsible for the areas of competitiveness,
regulation, infrastructure, innovation, and technological
development, and is also a Professor of Economics at the University
of California, San Diego. In addition, he heads the World Bank
Infrastructure Regulation Thematic Group.

Katharina Gassner
Senior Economist, Finance Economics and Urban Department, World Bank
Ms. Gassner is an expert in network regulation and has worked in
various areas relating to infrastructure, including policy and
sector reform advice, public-private service delivery options,
applied regulatory studies, and econometric research. She has
developed standard guidelines for infrastructure assessment reports
in energy and water, and has undertaken country studies in public
finance and the cost of infrastructure service delivery to
governments.

Marianne Fay
Co-Director, World Development Report 2010 on Climate Change, World
Bank
Prior to her current position, Ms. Fay was a Lead Economist in the
Office of the Chief Economist for ECA, where she worked on
infrastructure and more recently, adaptation to climate change and
the Lead Economist for the Finance, Infrastructure, and Private
Sector Development Department in LCR. Her research has mostly
focused on the role of infrastructure and urbanization in
development, and more recently on urban poverty issues.

Laura Tuck
Director, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Ms. Tuck works in the Sustainable Development Department, which is
responsible for transport, energy, urban development, water
resources management and water supply/sanitation, agriculture and
rural development, social development and environment. This
department is also responsible for climate change and GEF. Before
she moved to the Latin America Region, Ms. Tuck was the Director for
Sustainable Development in ECA.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
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