Panel Discussion on Migration on Wednesday, March 19 at 2:00 pm in Preston Auditorium, WB

InfoShop, 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

A debate of migration experts will be organized on the occasion of the Factbook
launch.

The Factbook attempts to present the numbers and facts behind the stories of
international migration and remittances for all countries, regions and income
groups of the world.

For more information and to order the book please click here.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Preston Auditorium
World Bank Main Complex
Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

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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