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.

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