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(See attached file: FromPovertyToPowerFIN.pdf)
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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.
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