Development Prospects Group (DECPG)
and
Migration Working Group
Invite you to
A Panel Discussion on
The Role of Migration in Globalization
and
Launch of the
Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008
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| | The Factbook attempts to present the |
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| | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
| | 2:00 - 4:00 pm |
| | Preston Auditorium |
| | World Bank Main Complex |
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| | For non Bank staff, please RSVP to |
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CHAIR
Uri Dadush
Director, Development Prospects Group and International Trade
Department, World Bank
Mr. Dadush is the current chair of the World Bank' Migration Working
Group. Mr. Dadush heads the Development Prospects Group which is
responsible for monitoring, analysis and projection of the world
economy, global financial markets and international migration and
their implications for developing countries. He is also Director of
the International Trade Department of the World Bank. Mr. Dadush was
previously Chair of the Economic Policy Sector Board and Director of
Economic Policy. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1992, Mr.
Dadush was President of the Economist Intelligence Unit, part of The
Economist Group, from 1986 to 1992. He was Group Vice President,
International, for Data Resources, Inc., from 1982 -1986. He has
also worked as a consultant with McKinsey and Co. in Italy and
Denmark.
PANELISTS
Demetrios Papademetriou
Co-founder and President, The Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
Mr. Papademetriou is co-founder and President of the Migration
Policy Institute (MPI), a Washington-based think tank dedicated
exclusively to the study of international migration. He is also the
co-convener of the Transatlantic Task Force on Immigration and
Integration. Mr. Papademetriou also convenes the Athens Migration
Policy Initiative (AMPI), and is the Co-Founder and International
Chair Emeritus of Metropolis: An International Forum for Research
and Policy on Migration and Cities. Mr. Papademetriou has taught at
the universities of Maryland, Duke, American, and New School for
Social Research. He has held a wide range of senior policy and
research positions that include: Chair of the Migration Committee of
the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD); Director for Immigration Policy and Research at
the U.S. Department of Labor and Chair of the Secretary of Labor?s
Immigration Policy Task Force; and Executive Editor of the
International Migration Review.
Jason DeParle
Senior writer at The New York Times
Mr. DeParle is a senior writer for The New York Times and a frequent
contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Mr. DeParle joined the
New York Times in 1989 and has written extensively about poverty in
America. He is the author of American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids,
and a Nation?s Drive to End Welfare (Viking, 2004). For the past
year, he has been writing about global migration and its potential
impact on development. He won a George Polk Award in 1999 for
his reporting on the welfare system and was a two-time finalist for
the Pulitzer Prize.
Dilip Ratha
Senior Economist, Migration and Remittances Team, Development
Prospects Group, World Bank
Mr. Ratha's research reflects a deep interest in financing
development in the poor countries: leveraging remittances and
migration for development; improving country risk ratings;
innovative financing mechanisms; future-flow securitization and
diaspora bonds; and South-South foreign direct investment. Prior to
joining the World Bank, he worked as a regional economist for Asia
at Credit Agricole Indosuez; as an assistant professor of economics
at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and as an
economist at the Policy Group, New Delhi. He has also worked as a
visiting lecturer at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi and
helped build a CGE model of the Indian economy.
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