"Tackling the Climate Change - Urban Nexus" presented on January 23 at 3:00pm in J1-050

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Tackling the Climate Change - Urban Nexus: Will Global Warming Destroy New York
or will Jake Gyllenhaal rescue it again?

Or if not Mr. Gyllenhaal, perhaps Ms. Cynthia Rosenzweig from NASA will. Ms
Rosenzweig has conducted a pioneering study of climate change impacts and
adaptation in the New York Metropolitan region. Dubbed the "Metro East Coast
(MEC) Regional Assessment" this study assessed how a major urban area is
affected by climate variability and change. Seven sector studies form the core
of the interacting elements: Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Infrastructure,
Wetlands, Water Supply, Public Health, Energy Demand, and Institutional
Decision-Making. The MEC Assessment has spurred Mayor Bloomberg and NYC
management in adopting and implementing a climate change adaptation strategy for
New York. Ms Rosenzweig, who has also served on the Nobel-winning IPCC, led the
MEC assessment, and will discuss the methodology, lessons learned, and role of
the IPCC in focusing on urban-level impacts.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
3:00 - 4:45 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoShopevents@worldbank.org

PRESENTED BY
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Head, Climate Impacts Group, NASA
Ms. Cynthia Rosenzweig heads the Climate Impacts Group at NASA?s Goddard
Institute of Space Studies, whose mission is to investigate the interactions of
climate on systems and sectors important to human well-being. Ms. Rosenzweig has
organized and led large-scale interdisciplinary regional, national, and
international studies of climate change impacts and adaptation. She is a
Coordinating Lead Author of the chapter on observed changes for the
Nobel-winning IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report, and served on the
IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenarios for Impact and Climate Assessment. Ms.
Rosenzweig's research involves the development of interdisciplinary
methodologies by which to assess the potential impacts of and adaptations to
global environmental change. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she has
joined impact models with global and regional climate models to predict future
outcomes of both land-based and urban systems under altered climate conditions.

DISCUSSED BY
Eric Schwartz
Executive Director, Connect US Fund.
Prior to joining the Fund, Eric Schwartz served as UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan's Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery. Among other positions, he
served as a lead expert for the congressionally mandated Mitchell-Gingrich Task
Force on United Nations Reform, second-ranking official at the Office of the UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a member of the US National Security
Council staff with responsibilities for a range of UN, peacekeeping,
humanitarian, and refugee issues. He has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson
Center, the US Institute of Peace and the Council on Foreign Relations, and was
a contributor to the Responsibility to Protect Project of the International
Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty.

Zmarak Shalizi
Former Senior Manager, World Bank.
Mr. Zmarak Shalizi was recently the Senior Manager for Infrastructure and
Environment Research in the Development Economics Vice Presidency at the World
Bank. In 2001 he was Director and Lead Author of the World Development Report
2003, which was presented at the World Summit of Sustainable Development in
Johannesburg in 2002. Mr. Shalizi has held numerous senior positions in the
Bank, and prior to joining the Bank, worked in private consulting and taught
courses on economics and on regional and urban planning techniques at MIT.

MODERATED BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, World Bank
Prior to joining the East Asia and Pacific Sustainable Development Department of
the Bank, Mr. Sanghi worked on development topics ranging from infrastructure
and climate change to microfinance and agricultural economics. He has also
worked in private sector consulting, for the Thailand Development Research
Institute, a non-profit think-tank, and has held teaching and research positions
at the University of Chicago, Thammasat University in Bangkok, and Yale
University. He holds degrees in physics and economics, and his doctoral
dissertation, from the University of Chicago, was on the economic impact of
global warming.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
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many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
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"Tackling the Climate Change - Urban Nexus" presented on January 23 at 3:00pm in J1-050

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| | Tackling the Climate Change - Urban |
| | Nexus: |
| | Will Global Warming Destroy New |
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| | again? |
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| | Or if not Mr. Gyllenhaal, perhaps |
| | Ms. Cynthia Rosenzweig from NASA |
| | will. Ms Rosenzweig has conducted a |
| | pioneering study of climate change |
| | impacts and adaptation in the New |
| | York Metropolitan region. Dubbed |
| | the "Metro East Coast (MEC) |
| | Regional Assessment" this study |
| | assessed how a major urban area is |
| | affected by climate variability and |
| | change. Seven sector studies form |
| | the core of the interacting |
| | elements: Sea-Level Rise and |
| | Coasts, Infrastructure, Wetlands, |
| | Water Supply, Public Health, Energy |
| | Demand, and Institutional |
| | Decision-Making. The MEC Assessment |
| | has spurred Mayor Bloomberg and NYC |
| | management in adopting and |
| | implementing a climate change |
| | adaptation strategy for New York. |
| | Ms Rosenzweig, who has also served |
| | on the Nobel-winning IPCC, led the |
| | MEC assessment, and will discuss |
| | the methodology, lessons learned, |
| | and role of the IPCC in focusing on |
| | urban-level impacts. |
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
3:00 - 4:45 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

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PRESENTED BY
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Head, Climate Impacts Group, NASA
Ms. Cynthia Rosenzweig heads the Climate Impacts Group at NASA?s
Goddard Institute of Space Studies, whose mission is to investigate
the interactions of climate on systems and sectors important to
human well-being. Ms. Rosenzweig has organized and led large-scale
interdisciplinary regional, national, and international studies of
climate change impacts and adaptation. She is a Coordinating Lead
Author of the chapter on observed changes for the Nobel-winning IPCC
Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report, and served on the IPCC
Task Group on Data and Scenarios for Impact and Climate Assessment.
Ms. Rosenzweig's research involves the development of
interdisciplinary methodologies by which to assess the potential
impacts of and adaptations to global environmental change. A
recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she has joined impact models
with global and regional climate models to predict future outcomes
of both land-based and urban systems under altered climate
conditions.

DISCUSSED BY
Eric Schwartz
Executive Director, Connect US Fund.
Prior to joining the Fund, Eric Schwartz served as UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami
Recovery. Among other positions, he served as a lead expert for the
congressionally mandated Mitchell-Gingrich Task Force on United
Nations Reform, second-ranking official at the Office of the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, and a member of the US National
Security Council staff with responsibilities for a range of UN,
peacekeeping, humanitarian, and refugee issues. He has held
fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Center, the US Institute of Peace
and the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a contributor to the
Responsibility to Protect Project of the International Commission on
Intervention and State Sovereignty.

Zmarak Shalizi
Former Senior Manager, World Bank.
Mr. Zmarak Shalizi was recently the Senior Manager for
Infrastructure and Environment Research in the Development Economics
Vice Presidency at the World Bank. In 2001 he was Director and Lead
Author of the World Development Report 2003, which was presented at
the World Summit of Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002.
Mr. Shalizi has held numerous senior positions in the Bank, and
prior to joining the Bank, worked in private consulting and taught
courses on economics and on regional and urban planning techniques
at MIT.

MODERATED BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, World Bank
Prior to joining the East Asia and Pacific Sustainable Development
Department of the Bank, Mr. Sanghi worked on development topics
ranging from infrastructure and climate change to microfinance and
agricultural economics. He has also worked in private sector
consulting, for the Thailand Development Research Institute, a
non-profit think-tank, and has held teaching and research positions
at the University of Chicago, Thammasat University in Bangkok, and
Yale University. He holds degrees in physics and economics, and his
doctoral dissertation, from the University of Chicago, was on the
economic impact of global warming.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

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Zygmunt Nagorski Presenting "From Warsaw to Wherever" on Thursday, January 24 at 12:30pm in JB1-080

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From Warsaw to Wherever

This is the story of Zygmunt Nagorski's struggle when it seemed that obstacles
stood at every turn, and his perseverance in the face of this struggle, which
brought him to where he is today. The story is not about heroism; it does not
depict battles of major proportions. It is about a journey neither planned nor
anticipated, a journey of one family's adventure that started as a tragedy and
is about to end as fulfillment. The German invasion of Poland was the tragedy,
living the final days in America the fulfillment. They started in Warsaw. They
ended up in Washington. The 'wherever' was in between.

"My message is to have courage to open closed doors as I did on my journey from
Warsaw to America."
- Zygmunt Nagorski

?The Bank and its leadership are wiser, more open, more tolerant and more
willing to search for answers because of what you brought to us.?
- World Bank Vice President

Thursday, January 24, 2008
12:30 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080
Please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

OPENING REMARKS VIA VIDEOCONFERNCE BY
Frannie Léautier
Managing Partner, The Fezembat Group; former Vice President of the World Bank
Institute (WBI)
Ms. Léautier joined the World Bank in 1992 as a Transport Economist in the Latin
America and Caribbean Region. She served in various positions, mostly in the
infrastructure sector, before she was appointed Director in the Office of the
President in 2000 and then Vice President of WBI in December 2001. She
championed the creation of the African Institute for Science and Technology, and
was instrumental in expanding WBI?s leadership development initiatives. She has
published extensively and received many awards. Her most recent work explains
the importance of understanding cities in a globalizing world. She is also a
Founding Member of the Editorial team for Journal of Infrastructure Systems and
a member of a number of international committees and Boards. After leaving the
World Bank, Ms. Léautier started a company that helps clients understand and
manage risks, particularly in emerging markets.

MODERATED BY
Phil Hay
Communications Adviser, Human Development Network, World Bank
Mr. Hay is helping to raise the profile and proven impact of human development
issues such as health, nutrition and population, HIV/AIDS, education, etc, in
the global and national media, and within the Bank's own development community.
He also works closely with key partners such as civil society, the specialist UN
agencies, parliamentarians, the private sector, and others to advance the human
development agenda. Mr. Hay is a former BBC Special Correspondent and veteran
commentator on international affairs.

PRESENTATION BY AUTHOR
Zygmunt Nagorski
Founder and President, The Center for International Leadership
A veteran of World War II, Mr. Nagorski emigrated to the United States in 1948,
and embarked on a journalism career. Mr. Nagorski then spent a decade in the
U.S. Foreign Service with posts in Egypt, South Korea and France. Upon returning
to the United States in 1969, he was appointed Director of Meetings of the
Council on Foreign Relations. He later served as Vice President and Director of
the Executive Seminars program of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. In
1986, he co-founded, and served as president of, the Center for International
Leadership. Several hundred World Bank managers have participated in his
leadership training program, beginning in 1998. His books include Armed
Unemployment, The Psychology of East-West Trade, and U.S.-Japanese Economic
Relations. He has been a contributor to such national publications as The
National Review, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
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forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
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"SAVING THE AMERICAS: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must do" discussed on Thursday, January 31 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop & The External Affairs Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean

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SAVING THE AMERICAS
The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must Do
By Andrés Oppenheimer

This new book by Pulitzer-prize co-winner and The Miami Herald syndicated
columnist Andrés Oppenheimer illustrates in detail how the current U.S.
administration's policy towards Latin America is actually creating the very
immigration issues President Bush is fighting to solve. "When it comes to
everyday issues that affect most Americans -whether immigration, trade, the
environment or, increasingly, energy- no region in the world has a bigger impact
on the United States than Latin America," writes Oppenheimer.
As an acknowledged expert on Latin America, Oppenheimer uses his experience and
reporting skills to show how this region is becoming increasingly less important
on the world stage, and the resulting negative effects on the lives of
Americans. Oppenheimer traveled to China, India, Poland, the Czech Republic,
Ireland and more than a dozen Latin American countries to see first-hand what
is pushing some nations ahead and others back. And in his characteristic style -
mixing travel anecdotes, humor and political analysis - he came to a surprising
conclusion: that despite its current troubles, Latin America can rise from
economic and political obscurity to become a booming market and an influential
player in world affairs.

?Once again, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Andrés Oppenheimer shows his deep
understanding of the dramatic changes in Latin America, and the impact of
America?s ongoing indifference to the region. For anyone seeking to understand
Latin America?s re-emerging populism and the effects of this administration?s
disastrous foreign policy in the region, this book is a must read. Oppenheimer
gives his readers hope for a new vision in Latin America.?
?Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico

Thursday, January 31, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
A reception will follow the presentation

MODERATED BY
Sergio Jellinek
Communications Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean External Affairs
Department, World Bank
Mr. Jellinek is the Communications Advisor for the Latin America and the
Caribbean Region at the World Bank. Working in the Latin America and the
Caribbean Vice-Presidency, Mr. Jellinek oversees communications for the Bank?s
entire action field within the region. He is also a founder of COM+ Alliance,
which is a partnership of international organizations and communications
professionals who are committed to using communications to advance a vision of
sustainable development that integrates its three pillars: economic, social, and
environmental, and that works worldwide. He has extensive experience in
developing countries both as a working journalist and as an advisor to
international organizations.

PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR
Andrés Oppenheimer
Latin American editor and foreign affairs columnist, The Miami Herald
Mr. Oppenheimer's syndicated column, The Oppenheimer Report, appears twice a
week in The Miami Heraldand in more than 40 U.S. and Latin American newspapers,
including La Nación of Argentina and Reforma of Mexico. He is a regular
political analyst with CNN en Español, and a frequent guest at PBS' Jim Lehrer
News Hour. He also hosts his own television talk show in Spanish on current
events, Oppenheimer Presenta. He is the co-winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize as
a member of The Miami Herald team that uncovered the Iran-Contra scandal. He has
won the Inter-American Press Association Award twice (1989 and 1994); the 1997
award of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists; the 1993 Ortega y
Gasset Award of Spain's daily El País; the 1998 Maria Moors Cabot Award of
Columbia University; the 2001 King of Spain Award, given out by the Spanish news
agency EFE and King Juan Carlos I of Spain; and an Overseas Press Club Award in
2002. The Ortega y Gasset and the King of Spain awards are the two most
prestigious journalism awards in the Spanish-speaking world. Oppenheimer was
selected by the Forbes Media Guide as one of the ?500 most important
journalists? of the United States in 1993, and by Poder magazine as one of the
?100 most powerful people? in Latin America in 2002. For more information on Mr.
Oppenheimer, please visit: www.AndresOppenheimer.com.

COMMENTS BY
Marcelo Giugale
Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programs for Latin America and
the Caribbean, World Bank
Mr. Giugale is an international development leader, his twenty years of
experience span the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Latin
America, where he led senior-level policy dialogue and over $5 billion in
lending operations across the development spectrum. He has published widely on
economic policy, finance, development economics, business, agriculture, and
applied econometrics. Notably, he was the chief editor of collections of policy
notes published for the presidential transitions in Mexico (2000), Colombia
(2002), Ecuador (2003), Bolivia (2006), and Peru (2006). He has received
decorations from the governments of Bolivia and Peru, and has taught at the
American University in Cairo, the London School of Economics, and the
Universidad Católica Argentina.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
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TODAY'S EVENT CANCELLED: "Building Science, Technology, and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda" discussed in the InfoShop on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 12:00pm in J1-050

We regret to inform you that the RWANDA's book launch has been postponed for a
later date.

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Building Science, Technology, and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda
This book presents the methodology, policy conclusions, and detailed action
plans that emerged from a World Bank science, technology, and innovation (STI)
capacity-building program in Rwanda in 2006?07. This book illustrates that even
an economy dominated by subsistence agriculture, such as Rwanda's, needs to
develop STI capacity to address everyday issues such as providing energy and
clean water to rural areas, and also for competing successfully in the global
economy.

This book provides new insights into the STI capacity-building process and shows
that this process is not an activity solely for wealthy countries, but is, in
fact, a necessity for poorer countries that want to improve their economy. The
methodology presented can be used to help poor countries achieve the Millennium
Development Goals and increase their competitiveness, while helping
middle-income countries to compete on the basis of innovation and quality.

OPENING REMARKS BY
Romian Murenzi
Minister of Science, Technology, Scientific Research and Information
Communication Technologies in Rwanda
Mr. Murenzi previously served as chair and professor in the Department of
Physics at Clark Atlanta University among his many academic appointments and
honors. He has held appointments as a visiting professor, adjunct professor, and
associate professor in universities in Belgium, France, and the United States.
Mr. Murenzi was awarded a dozen major research grants and has published over
seventy articles and conference papers. He was recently nominated the Vice
President for TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, for
Africa.

MODERATED BY
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Phumaphi, a Botswana national, began public service in Botswana as a local
government auditor. From 1994 to 2003, she went on to serve in Parliament and as
a representative to the Southern African Development Community. She entered the
Cabinet with responsibility for lands and housing and developed the first
national housing policy. Ms. Phumaphi subsequently served as Minister for
Health where she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on results
while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and putting into action a
multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. In 2003, Ms. Phumaphi joined the World
Health Organization as the Assistant Director General for Family and Community
Health Department. She is a member of the UNDP advisory board for Africa.

DISCUSSED BY
Ruth Kagia
Diector, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Kagia, a Kenyan national, joined the Bank in August 1990 after a career in
public service in Africa spanning close to twenty years. For the first six
years at the Bank, she worked as an education specialist in the Africa and the
East Asia Regions. She has served as a HD Sector Manager in the Africa region,
a Director for Strategy and Operations in the Human Development Network anchor,
and an Education Sector Director for Education, the position she currently
holds. In her current position, Ms. Kagia has provided strategic oversight and
coordination of the Bank's education sector staffing and sector work program.

PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Alfred Watkins
Science, Technology and innovation Coordinator, World Bank
Mr. Watkins is responsible for developing and helping implement the World Bank?s
global Science and Technology capacity building program. He is currently
piloting science and technology capacity building programs in several countries
in Africa. Prior to assuming this assignment, Mr. Watkins helped to develop the
World Bank?s Science and Technology program in the former Soviet Union and
produced Science and Technology policy notes and project proposals in
Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Russia.

Anubha Verma
Science, Technology and Innovation Specialist, World Bank
Ms. Verma is a consultant with the Science, Technology and Innovation group at
the World Bank. In her current assignment she is working on science and
technology capacity building programs in Rwanda, Mauritius, Botswana. She has
also held jobs in the information technology sector in Bangalore, India.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
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"SAVING THE AMERICAS: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must do" discussed on Thursday, January 31 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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The External Affairs Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean

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| | SAVING THE AMERICAS |
| | The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and |
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| | This new book by Pulitzer-prize co-winner |
| | and The Miami Herald syndicated columnist |
| | Andrés Oppenheimer illustrates in detail |
| | how the current U.S. administration's |
| | policy towards Latin America is actually |
| | creating the very immigration issues |
| | President Bush is fighting to solve. "When |
| | it comes to everyday issues that affect |
| | most Americans -whether immigration, |
| | trade, the environment or, increasingly, |
| | energy- no region in the world has a |
| | bigger impact on the United States than |
| | Latin America," writes Oppenheimer. |
| | As an acknowledged expert on Latin |
| | America, Oppenheimer uses his experience |
| | and reporting skills to show how this |
| | region is becoming increasingly less |
| | important on the world stage, and the |
| | resulting negative effects on the lives of |
| | Americans. Oppenheimer traveled to China, |
| | India, Poland, the Czech Republic, Ireland |
| | and more than a dozen Latin American |
| | countries to see first-hand what is |
| | pushing some nations ahead and others |
| | back. And in his characteristic style - |
| | mixing travel anecdotes, humor and |
| | political analysis - he came to a |
| | surprising conclusion: that despite its |
| | current troubles, Latin America can rise |
| | from economic and political obscurity to |
| | become a booming market and an influential |
| | player in world affairs. |
| | |
| | |
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?Once again, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Andrés Oppenheimer
shows his deep understanding of the dramatic changes in Latin
America, and the impact of America?s ongoing indifference to the
region. For anyone seeking to understand Latin America?s re-emerging
populism and the effects of this administration?s disastrous foreign
policy in the region, this book is a must read. Oppenheimer gives
his readers hope for a new vision in Latin America.?
?Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico

Thursday, January 31, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

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A reception will follow the presentation

MODERATED BY
Sergio Jellinek
Communications Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean External Affairs
Department, World Bank
Mr. Jellinek is the Communications Advisor for the Latin America and
the Caribbean Region at the World Bank. Working in the Latin America
and the Caribbean Vice-Presidency, Mr. Jellinek oversees
communications for the Bank?s entire action field within the region.
He is also a founder of COM+ Alliance, which is a partnership of
international organizations and communications professionals who are
committed to using communications to advance a vision of sustainable
development that integrates its three pillars: economic, social, and
environmental, and that works worldwide. He has extensive experience
in developing countries both as a working journalist and as an
advisor to international organizations.

PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR
Andrés Oppenheimer
Latin American editor and foreign affairs columnist, The Miami
Herald
Mr. Oppenheimer's syndicated column, The Oppenheimer Report, appears
twice a week in The Miami Heraldand in more than 40 U.S. and Latin
American newspapers, including La Nación of Argentina and Reforma of
Mexico. He is a regular political analyst with CNN en Español, and a
frequent guest at PBS' Jim Lehrer News Hour. He also hosts his own
television talk show in Spanish on current events, Oppenheimer
Presenta. He is the co-winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize as a member
of The Miami Herald team that uncovered the Iran-Contra scandal. He
has won the Inter-American Press Association Award twice (1989 and
1994); the 1997 award of the National Association of Hispanic
Journalists; the 1993 Ortega y Gasset Award of Spain's daily El País
; the 1998 Maria Moors Cabot Award of Columbia University; the 2001
King of Spain Award, given out by the Spanish news agency EFE and
King Juan Carlos I of Spain; and an Overseas Press Club Award in
2002. The Ortega y Gasset and the King of Spain awards are the two
most prestigious journalism awards in the Spanish-speaking world.
Oppenheimer was selected by the Forbes Media Guide as one of the
?500 most important journalists? of the United States in 1993, and
by Poder magazine as one of the ?100 most powerful people? in Latin
America in 2002. For more information on Mr. Oppenheimer, please
visit: www.AndresOppenheimer.com.

COMMENTS BY
Marcelo Giugale
Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programs for Latin America and
the Caribbean, World Bank
Mr. Giugale is an international development leader, his twenty years
of experience span the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia,
and Latin America, where he led senior-level policy dialogue and
over $5 billion in lending operations across the development
spectrum. He has published widely on economic policy, finance,
development economics, business, agriculture, and applied
econometrics. Notably, he was the chief editor of collections of
policy notes published for the presidential transitions in Mexico
(2000), Colombia (2002), Ecuador (2003), Bolivia (2006), and Peru
(2006). He has received decorations from the governments of Bolivia
and Peru, and has taught at the American University in Cairo, the
London School of Economics, and the Universidad Católica Argentina.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

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REMINDER: "Building Science, Technology, and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda" discussed in the InfoShop on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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| | conclusions, and detailed action plans that |
| | emerged from a World Bank science, |
| | technology, and innovation (STI) |
| | capacity-building program in Rwanda in |
| | 2006?07. This book illustrates that even an |
| | economy dominated by subsistence |
| | agriculture, such as Rwanda's, needs to |
| | develop STI capacity to address everyday |
| | issues such as providing energy and clean |
| | water to rural areas, and also for |
| | competing successfully in the global |
| | economy. |
| | |
| | This book provides new insights into the |
| | STI capacity-building process and shows |
| | that this process is not an activity solely |
| | for wealthy countries, but is, in fact, a |
| | necessity for poorer countries that want to |
| | improve their economy. The methodology |
| | presented can be used to help poor |
| | countries achieve the Millennium |
| | Development Goals and increase their |
| | competitiveness, while helping |
| | middle-income countries to compete on the |
| | basis of innovation and quality. |
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
Coffee and Cookies will be served

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OPENING REMARKS BY
Ambassador James Kimonyo
Rwandan Ambassador to the United States of America
Ambassador Kimonyo has been instrumental in the political and
socio-economic reforms in Rwanda for the last thirteen years where
he held several key positions in government. After the 1994
genocide, Ambassador Kimonyo was appointed to head the department of
Rehabilitation and Reconstruction. Ambassador Kimonyo additionally
has a wide range of experience with international organizations. He
served as a national director and coordinator of several projects
funded by different international organizations including UNHCR,
UNDP and UN-HABITAT. Prior to his current position, Ambassador
Kimonyo was Rwanda?s Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa and
Non-Resident Ambassador to Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola,
Namibia, Botswana, Kingdom of Swaziland and the Kingdom of Lesotho.

MODERATED BY
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Phumaphi, a Botswana national, began public service in Botswana
as a local government auditor. From 1994 to 2003, she went on to
serve in Parliament and as a representative to the Southern African
Development Community. She entered the Cabinet with responsibility
for lands and housing and developed the first national housing
policy. Ms. Phumaphi subsequently served as Minister for Health
where she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on
results while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and
putting into action a multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. In
2003, Ms. Phumaphi joined the World Health Organization as the
Assistant Director General for Family and Community Health
Department. She is a member of the UNDP advisory board for Africa.

PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Alfred Watkins
Science, Technology and innovation Coordinator, World Bank
Mr. Watkins is responsible for developing and helping implement the
World Bank?s global Science and Technology capacity building
program. He is currently piloting science and technology capacity
building programs in several countries in Africa. Prior to assuming
this assignment, Mr. Watkins helped to develop the World Bank?s
Science and Technology program in the former Soviet Union and
produced Science and Technology policy notes and project proposals
in Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Russia.

Anubha Verma
Science, Technology and Innovation Specialist, World Bank
Ms. Verma is a consultant with the Science, Technology and
Innovation group at the World Bank. In her current assignment she is
working on science and technology capacity building programs in
Rwanda, Mauritius, Botswana. She has also held jobs in the
information technology sector in Bangalore, India.

DISCUSSED BY
Ruth Kagia
Diector, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Kagia, a Kenyan national, joined the Bank in August 1990 after a
career in public service in Africa spanning close to twenty years.
For the first six years at the Bank, she worked as an education
specialist in the Africa and the East Asia Regions. She has served
as a HD Sector Manager in the Africa region, a Director for Strategy
and Operations in the Human Development Network anchor, and an
Education Sector Director for Education, the position she currently
holds. In her current position, Ms. Kagia has provided strategic
oversight and coordination of the Bank's education sector staffing
and sector work program.

Shahid Yusuf
Economic Advisor, Development Research Group , World Bank
Mr. Yusuf was the Director of the World Development Report for
1999/2000. Since 2000, he has served as Economic Adviser in the
Development Economics Research Group and manages a major research
study on East Asia?s Future Economy. Mr. Yusuf?s most recent
publications are: "China's Development Priorities" co-authored with
Kaoru Nabeshima (2006); "Post Industrial East Asian Cities"
co-authored with Kaoru Nabeshima (2006); and "Dancing with Giants"
co-edited with L.Alan Winters (2007).
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

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Zygmunt Nagorski Presenting "From Warsaw to Wherever" on Thursday, January 24 at 12:00pm in JB1-080

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| | in the face of this struggle, which |
| | brought him to where he is today. The |
| | story is not about heroism; it does not |
| | depict battles of major proportions. It is |
| | about a journey neither planned nor |
| | anticipated, a journey of one family's |
| | adventure that started as a tragedy and is |
| | about to end as fulfillment. The German |
| | invasion of Poland was the tragedy, living |
| | the final days in America the fulfillment. |
| | They started in Warsaw. They ended up in |
| | Washington. The 'wherever' was in between. |
| | |
| | "My message is to have courage to open |
| | closed doors as I did on my journey from |
| | Warsaw to America." |
| | - Zygmunt Nagorski |
| | |
| | ?The Bank and its leadership are wiser, |
| | more open, more tolerant and more willing |
| | to search for answers because of what you |
| | brought to us.? |
| | - World Bank Vice President |
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080

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OPENING REMARKS VIA VIDEOCONFERNCE BY
Frannie Léautier
Managing Partner, The Fezembat Group; former Vice President of the
World Bank Institute (WBI)
Ms. Léautier joined the World Bank in 1992 as a Transport Economist
in the Latin America and Caribbean Region. She served in various
positions, mostly in the infrastructure sector, before she was
appointed Director in the Office of the President in 2000 and then
Vice President of WBI in December 2001. She championed the creation
of the African Institute for Science and Technology, and was
instrumental in expanding WBI?s leadership development initiatives.
She has published extensively and received many awards. Her most
recent work explains the importance of understanding cities in a
globalizing world. She is also a Founding Member of the Editorial
team for Journal of Infrastructure Systems and a member of a number
of international committees and Boards. After leaving the World
Bank, Ms. Léautier started a company that helps clients understand
and manage risks, particularly in emerging markets.

MODERATED BY
Phil Hay
Communications Adviser, Human Development Network, World Bank
Mr. Hay is helping to raise the profile and proven impact of human
development issues such as health, nutrition and population,
HIV/AIDS, education, etc, in the global and national media, and
within the Bank's own development community. He also works closely
with key partners such as civil society, the specialist UN agencies,
parliamentarians, the private sector, and others to advance the
human development agenda. Mr. Hay is a former BBC Special
Correspondent and veteran commentator on international affairs.

PRESENTATION BY AUTHOR
Zygmunt Nagorski
Founder and President, The Center for International Leadership
A veteran of World War II, Mr. Nagorski emigrated to the United
States in 1948, and embarked on a journalism career. Mr. Nagorski
then spent a decade in the U.S. Foreign Service with posts in Egypt,
South Korea and France. Upon returning to the United States in 1969,
he was appointed Director of Meetings of the Council on Foreign
Relations. He later served as Vice President and Director of the
Executive Seminars program of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic
Studies. In 1986, he co-founded, and served as president of, the
Center for International Leadership. Several hundred World Bank
managers have participated in his leadership training program,
beginning in 1998. His books include Armed Unemployment, The
Psychology of East-West Trade, and U.S.-Japanese Economic Relations.
He has been a contributor to such national publications as The
National Review, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

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"Building Science, Technology, and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda" discussed in the InfoShop on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop, Education, the World Bank and Human Development Network, Education
(HDNED)

invite you to a launch of recent World Bank publication

Building Science, Technology, and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda
This book presents the methodology, policy conclusions, and detailed action
plans that emerged from a World Bank science, technology, and innovation (STI)
capacity-building program in Rwanda in 2006?07. This book illustrates that even
an economy dominated by subsistence agriculture, such as Rwanda's, needs to
develop STI capacity to address everyday issues such as providing energy and
clean water to rural areas, and also for competing successfully in the global
economy.

This book provides new insights into the STI capacity-building process and shows
that this process is not an activity solely for wealthy countries, but is, in
fact, a necessity for poorer countries that want to improve their economy. The
methodology presented can be used to help poor countries achieve the Millennium
Development Goals and increase their competitiveness, while helping
middle-income countries to compete on the basis of innovation and quality.

Thursday, January 17, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

OPENING REMARKS BY
Romian Murenzi
Minister of Science, Technology, Scientific Research and Information
Communication Technologies in Rwanda
Mr. Murenzi previously served as chair and professor in the Department of
Physics at Clark Atlanta University among his many academic appointments and
honors. He has held appointments as a visiting professor, adjunct professor, and
associate professor in universities in Belgium, France, and the United States.
Mr. Murenzi was awarded a dozen major research grants and has published over
seventy articles and conference papers. He was recently nominated the Vice
President for TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, for
Africa.

MODERATED BY
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Phumaphi, a Botswana national, began public service in Botswana as a local
government auditor. From 1994 to 2003, she went on to serve in Parliament and as
a representative to the Southern African Development Community. She entered the
Cabinet with responsibility for lands and housing and developed the first
national housing policy. Ms. Phumaphi subsequently served as Minister for
Health where she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on results
while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and putting into action a
multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. In 2003, Ms. Phumaphi joined the World
Health Organization as the Assistant Director General for Family and Community
Health Department. She is a member of the UNDP advisory board for Africa.

DISCUSSED BY
Ruth Kagia
Diector, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Kagia, a Kenyan national, joined the Bank in August 1990 after a career in
public service in Africa spanning close to twenty years. For the first six
years at the Bank, she worked as an education specialist in the Africa and the
East Asia Regions. She has served as a HD Sector Manager in the Africa region,
a Director for Strategy and Operations in the Human Development Network anchor,
and an Education Sector Director for Education, the position she currently
holds. In her current position, Ms. Kagia has provided strategic oversight and
coordination of the Bank's education sector staffing and sector work program.

PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Alfred Watkins
Science, Technology and innovation Coordinator, World Bank
Mr. Watkins is responsible for developing and helping implement the World Bank?s
global Science and Technology capacity building program. He is currently
piloting science and technology capacity building programs in several countries
in Africa. Prior to assuming this assignment, Mr. Watkins helped to develop the
World Bank?s Science and Technology program in the former Soviet Union and
produced Science and Technology policy notes and project proposals in
Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Russia.

Anubha Verma
Science, Technology and Innovation Specialist, World Bank
Ms. Verma is a consultant with the Science, Technology and Innovation group at
the World Bank. In her current assignment she is working on science and
technology capacity building programs in Rwanda, Mauritius, Botswana. She has
also held jobs in the information technology sector in Bangalore, India.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: "Building Inclusive Financial Systems" discussed on Wednesday, January 16 at 4:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop, Brookings Institution Press and
Finance and Private Sector Development, Financial Access Unit

Invite you to a book launch
Building Inclusive Financial Systems:
A Framework for Financial Access
Michael Barr, Anjali Kumar, and Robert E. Litan
Editors

Broad-based and inclusive financial systems can significantly aid financial
development, reduce poverty, and expand economic opportunity in developing
countries. Poor households and individuals often have difficulty obtaining
financial services for a multitude of reasons, including transaction costs,
perceived risk, inadequate legal and financial infrastructure, and information
barriers. Yet many financial institutions have begun making profitable inroads
into these underserved markets through the continuing expansion of financial
access and microfinance.

Building Inclusive Financial Systems offers an indispensable guide for
governments and the private sector to increase access effectively and
responsibly. Panelists will share their experience and views on new directions
in work in the area of financial access, building upon and extending themes in
the book.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Presentation: 4:00-5.15 pm; Reception: 5.15 to 6.00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

MODERATED BY
Elizabeth Littlefield
Director, World Bank and CEO of CGAP
Ms. Littlefield comes to CGAP from the investment bank JP Morgan, where she was
the Managing Director in charge of JP Morgan?s Emerging Markets Capital Markets.
As such, she was responsible for Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, Central
Asia, Middle East and Africa until leaving to join CGAP.

PANELISTS
Anjali Kumar
Adviser, Financial and Private Sector Development VP, World Bank
Ms. Kumar is an Adviser in the Financial and Private Sector vice presidency,
currently leading a unit engaged in building world wide indicators on financial
access. Her previous responsibilities included Lead Financial Economist, Latin
American region and Principal Economist, East Asian region. Her prior country
experience span the European region, the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. She
has been a consultant to the Ministry of Industry, Government of India, and held
a Fellowship at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

Marilou Uy
Sector Director, Africa Finance and Private Sector Development Department, World
Bank
Ms. Uy is the Sector Director for the Africa Finance and Private Sector
Development Department at the World Bank. Previously, she served as Director of
the Financial Sector Operations and Policy Department in the Financial Sector
Vice-Presidency (FSE) as well as Chair of the Financial Sector Board since
September 2002. Ms. Uy has worked on trade policy, investment climate, and
financial sector issues in various operational departments in Latin America,
Middle East, and South Asia.

Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Ms. Rojas-Suarez is the Chair of the Latin American Shadow Financial Regulatory
Committee (CLAAF). She has served as Managing Director and Chief Economist for
Latin America at Deutsche Bank, as the Principal Advisor in the Office of Chief
Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, and as Deputy Chief of the
Capital Markets and Financial Studies Division of the Research Department at the
International Monetary Fund.

Peer Stein
Manager of Financial Infrastructure & Institution Building, International
Finance Corporation
Mr. Stein is overseeing and supporting IFC?s technical assistance and advisory
services in financial markets world-wide, including SME banking, housing
finance, microfinance, leasing, securities markets and energy efficiency
finance. Further, he is leading IFC?s and the World Bank?s advisory work in
financial infrastructure, specifically supporting the development of credit
bureaus to support greater access to finance in developing and emerging markets
as well as managing the World Bank?s Payment Systems Development Group.

Hanns-Martin Hagen
Vice President, KfW Bankengruppe
Mr. Hagen is Vice President of the unit for Financial and Private Sector
Development, Europe/Caucasus. Mr. Hagen is responsible for the development of
equity and debt instruments adapted to the needs of microfinance institutions
and local banks in developing and transitions countries. Prior to his current
position Mr. Hagen served as Senior Project Manager in the Asia and Pacific
Department (1999-2002) which followed a posting as Capital Markets Analyst in
KfW's treasury department (1997-1999). Prior to joining KfW he worked with
Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt (Germany) and Duisburg (Germany) where he received
his training.

Michael Barr
Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Mr. Barr is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in
Washington, D.C. He conducts large-scale empirical research on low- and
moderate-income households, including as the Principal Investigator for the
Detroit Area Household Financial Services Study at the Survey Research Center of
the University of Michigan and as a key researcher for the FDIC?s study of bank
services for LMI households. Mr. Barr previously served as Treasury Secretary
Robert E. Rubin?s Special Assistant, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Community Development Policy, and as Special Advisor to President
William J. Clinton.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: "Building Inclusive Financial Systems" discussed on Wednesday, January 16 at 4:00pm in J1-050

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| | Building Inclusive Financial Systems |
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| | Editors |
| | |
| | Broad-based and inclusive financial |
| | systems can significantly aid financial |
| | development, reduce poverty, and expand |
| | economic opportunity in developing |
| | countries. Poor households and |
| | individuals often have difficulty |
| | obtaining financial services for a |
| | multitude of reasons, including |
| | transaction costs, perceived risk, |
| | inadequate legal and financial |
| | infrastructure, and information barriers. |
| | Yet many financial institutions have |
| | begun making profitable inroads into |
| | these underserved markets through the |
| | continuing expansion of financial access |
| | and microfinance. |
| | |
| | Building Inclusive Financial Systems |
| | offers an indispensable guide for |
| | governments and the private sector to |
| | increase access effectively and |
| | responsibly. Panelists will share their |
| | experience and views on new directions in |
| | work in the area of financial access, |
| | building upon and extending themes in the |
| | book. |
| | |
| | |
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Presentation: 4:00-5.15 pm; Reception: 5.15 to 6.00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

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MODERATED BY
Elizabeth Littlefield
Director, World Bank and CEO of CGAP
Ms. Littlefield comes to CGAP from the investment bank JP Morgan,
where she was the Managing Director in charge of JP Morgan?s
Emerging Markets Capital Markets. As such, she was responsible for
Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and
Africa until leaving to join CGAP.

PANELISTS
Anjali Kumar
Adviser, Financial and Private Sector Development VP, World Bank
Ms. Kumar is an Adviser in the Financial and Private Sector vice
presidency, currently leading a unit engaged in building world wide
indicators on financial access. Her previous responsibilities
included Lead Financial Economist, Latin American region and
Principal Economist, East Asian region. Her prior country
experience span the European region, the Middle East, South Asia and
Africa. She has been a consultant to the Ministry of Industry,
Government of India, and held a Fellowship at the Institute of
Economic Growth, Delhi.

Marilou Uy
Sector Director, Africa Finance and Private Sector Development
Department, World Bank
Ms. Uy is the Sector Director for the Africa Finance and Private
Sector Development Department at the World Bank. Previously, she
served as Director of the Financial Sector Operations and Policy
Department in the Financial Sector Vice-Presidency (FSE) as well as
Chair of the Financial Sector Board since September 2002. Ms. Uy has
worked on trade policy, investment climate, and financial sector
issues in various operational departments in Latin America, Middle
East, and South Asia.

Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Ms. Rojas-Suarez is the Chair of the Latin American Shadow Financial
Regulatory Committee (CLAAF). She has served as Managing Director
and Chief Economist for Latin America at Deutsche Bank, as the
Principal Advisor in the Office of Chief Economist at the
Inter-American Development Bank, and as Deputy Chief of the Capital
Markets and Financial Studies Division of the Research Department at
the International Monetary Fund.

Peer Stein
Manager of Financial Infrastructure & Institution Building,
International Finance Corporation
Mr. Stein is overseeing and supporting IFC?s technical assistance
and advisory services in financial markets world-wide, including SME
banking, housing finance, microfinance, leasing, securities markets
and energy efficiency finance. Further, he is leading IFC?s and the
World Bank?s advisory work in financial infrastructure, specifically
supporting the development of credit bureaus to support greater
access to finance in developing and emerging markets as well as
managing the World Bank?s Payment Systems Development Group.

Hanns-Martin Hagen
Vice President, KfW Bankengruppe
Mr. Hagen is Vice President of the unit for Financial and Private
Sector Development, Europe/Caucasus. Mr. Hagen is responsible for
the development of equity and debt instruments adapted to the needs
of microfinance institutions and local banks in developing and
transitions countries. Prior to his current position Mr. Hagen
served as Senior Project Manager in the Asia and Pacific Department
(1999-2002) which followed a posting as Capital Markets Analyst in
KfW's treasury department (1997-1999). Prior to joining KfW he
worked with Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt (Germany) and Duisburg
(Germany) where he received his training.

Michael Barr
Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Mr. Barr is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
in Washington, D.C. He conducts large-scale empirical research on
low- and moderate-income households, including as the Principal
Investigator for the Detroit Area Household Financial Services Study
at the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan and as a
key researcher for the FDIC?s study of bank services for LMI
households. Mr. Barr previously served as Treasury Secretary Robert
E. Rubin?s Special Assistant, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Community Development Policy, and as Special Advisor to
President William J. Clinton.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

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REMINDER: "Transforming Government, Empowering Communities, and Building the Knowledge Economy" on Tuesday, January 15 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit, South Asia Region
&
e-Development Thematic Group

invite you to a book launch and dissemination seminar of two volumes

Transforming Government, Empowering Communities, and Building the Knowledge
Economy

How should countries harness the ongoing ICT revolution to create new
development strategies and accelerate the development process? How can
developing countries take advantage of the opportunities for outsourcing and the
globalization of services? How can poor countries make access to ICT
affordable and sustainable to the majority of population? How can ICT be
deployed to transform government services and make public agencies more
client-centered? What kinds of innovation systems can promote the application of
ICT to serve local needs, rural areas and the poor? And what does it take to
build institutions to lead the movement towards ICT-enabled competitive
economies and inclusive information societies?

The two volumes respond to these challenges presenting a concrete case
study of how one country is bridging the gap between vision and actionable
programs. E-Sri Lanka is an integrated, client-driven program and the
first of its kind to be funded by the World Bank. It is about investing in
the necessary policies, institutions, capabilities, infrastructures, and
information technology applications for a poor country to join the global
knowledge economy, transform public services, and empower local
communities.

The event will also be available via live webcast:
http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment/live
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A reception will follow the presentation

OPENING REMARKS BY
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region, World Bank

KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY
Lalith Weeratunga
Secretary to the President of Sri Lanka

MODERATED BY
Simon Bell
Manager, Finance and Private Sector Development, South Asia, World Bank

PRESENTED BY
Nagy Hanna
Author; Senior Research Fellow at University of Maryland; former senior advisor
at World Bank

COMMENTS BY
Philippe Dongier
Manager, Communication and Information Technology Policy, Global ICT Department,
World Bank

Manju Haththotuwa
Former CEO of Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka;
Senior ICT Policy Specialist, World Bank

CONCLUDING REMARKS BY
Dhanendra Kumar
Executive Director, Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; and Sri Lanka, World Bank
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: "Transforming Government, Empowering Communities, and Building the Knowledge Economy" on Tuesday, January 15 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop events are now available for the learning catalog, please register on
the following link:

http://lms.worldbank.org/topclass/tce730iis.dll?Plugin-catreg-enroll-1620376

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Finance and Private Sector Development Unit, South Asia Region
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| | sustainable to the majority of population? How |
| | can ICT be deployed to transform government |
| | services and make public agencies more |
| | client-centered? What kinds of innovation systems |
| | can promote the application of ICT to serve local |
| | needs, rural areas and the poor? And what does |
| | it take to build institutions to lead the |
| | movement towards ICT-enabled competitive |
| | economies and inclusive information societies? |
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| | The two volumes respond to these challenges |
| | presenting a concrete case study of how one |
| | country is bridging the gap between vision and |
| | actionable programs. E-Sri Lanka is an |
| | integrated, client-driven program and the first |
| | of its kind to be funded by the World Bank. It is |
| | about investing in the necessary policies, |
| | institutions, capabilities, infrastructures, and |
| | information technology applications for a poor |
| | country to join the global knowledge economy, |
| | transform public services, and empower local |
| | communities. |
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| | The event will also be available via live |
| | webcast: |
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http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment/live

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A reception will follow the presentation

Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes calendar

OPENING REMARKS BY
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region, World Bank

KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY
Lalith Weeratunga
Secretary to the President of Sri Lanka

MODERATED BY
Simon Bell
Manager, Finance and Private Sector Development, South Asia, World Bank

PRESENTED BY
Nagy Hanna
Author; Senior Research Fellow at University of Maryland; former senior advisor
at World Bank

COMMENTS BY
Philippe Dongier
Manager, Communication and Information Technology Policy, Global ICT Department,
World Bank

Manju Haththotuwa
Former CEO of Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri
Lanka; Senior ICT Policy Specialist, World Bank

CONCLUDING REMARKS BY
Dhanendra Kumar
Executive Director, Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; and Sri Lanka, World Bank

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0