"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.

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