Launch of "Public Finance in China" presented by Minister Jiwei Lou and Shuilin Wang

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Public Finance in China
Reform and Growth for a Harmonious Society
Edited by Jiwei Lou, Shuilin Wang

This book brings together analysis and insights from high-level Chinese
policy-makers and prominent international scholars in addressing the key
challenges China is facing in maintaining rapid growth and achieving the
Government's stated goal of creating a harmonious society. It analyzes such key
policy issues as: public finance and the changing role of the state; fiscal
reform and revenue and expenditure assignments; inter-governmental relations and
fiscal transfers; and financing and delivery of basic public goods such as
compulsory education, innovation, public health, and Social protection.
For more information about the book, please visit:
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
3:00 - 5:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Room tbd
701 18th Steet, NW Washington, DC 20433
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

MODERATED BY
Jim Adams
Vice President of the East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank
In the capacity as Vice President, Mr. Adams has overall responsibility for
World Bank operations in one of the world?s most dynamic regions, covering more
than a dozen states ranging from the world?s most populous country --China-- to
the smallest and most remote Pacific Islands states.

PRESENTATION BY AUTHORS
Jiwei Lou
Minister,China
Mr. Lou is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the China Investment
Corporation (CIC). He has held a variety of high level posts in China, serving
as Deputy Secretary-General of China's State Council, Executive Vice Minister of
Finance, Vice Governor of Guizhou Province, Director-General of Macroeconomics
Department at the State Commission for Restructuring Economic System, Deputy
Head of Research at the Department of the General Office of the State Council,
among other positions. He has published extensively on public finance, taxation,
banking and monetary policy, international trade and tariffs, inflation, and
economic reform.

Shuilin Wang
Senior Economist, World Bank
Mr. Wang is a Senior Economist in the Development Economics Vice Presidency.
Prior to joining the Bank in 2002, he worked in Chinese government. His last
assignment was as a director-general in charge of international comparative
studies at China's State Council Economic Restructuring Office.

PANEL DISCUSSANTS
Teresa Ter-Minassian
Director of Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
Ms. Ter-Minassian has been director of the Fiscal Affairs Department since 2001.
For eight years, she was chief of the Southern European division in the IMF.
From 1988 to 1996, she held the position of Deputy Director of the Fiscal
Affairs Department of the Fund. She also headed the IMF Task Force for the joint
study of the Soviet economy. Prior to that, she served as Deputy Director of the
Western Hemisphere Department.

Martin Ravallion
Director of the Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Ravallion is Director of the Development Research Group. He has held various
position in the Bank, since joining as an economist in 1988. He has written
three books and over 170 papers on poverty and policies for fighting it. He
currently serves on the editorial boards of ten economic journals, is a Senior
Fellow of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, a
founding council member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality and
he serves on the advisory board of the International Poverty Research Center.

Carlos Alberto Braga
Director, Economic Policy and Debt, PREM Network
Mr. Braga is Director of Economic Policy and Debt in the PREM Network, and
Chairman of the Economic Policy Sector Board. Since joining the Bank in 1991, he
has held managerial positions in the Energy, Mining, and Telecommunications,
Global ICT (infoDev) and ISG groups. From 2006 until recently, as Senior Advisor
for PRMVP and as Head of IPPG , Mr. Braga led the aid architecture agenda, and
managed PREM strategic relationships with key shareholders, bilateral agencies,
and regional development banks to maximize institutional leverage for the Bank.
Prior to that, he was Senior Advisor in the International Trade Department based
in Geneva.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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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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Launch of "Public Finance in China" presented by Minister Jiwei Lou and Shuilin Wang

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| | issues as: public finance and the |
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| | and revenue and expenditure assignments; |
| | inter-governmental relations and fiscal |
| | transfers; and financing and delivery of |
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
3:00 - 5:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Room tbd
701 18th Steet, NW Washington, DC 20433

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MODERATED BY
Jim Adams
Vice President of the East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank
In the capacity as Vice President, Mr. Adams has overall
responsibility for World Bank operations in one of the world?s most
dynamic regions, covering more than a dozen states ranging from the
world?s most populous country --China-- to the smallest and most
remote Pacific Islands states.

PRESENTATION BY AUTHORS
Jiwei Lou
Minister,China
Mr. Lou is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the China
Investment Corporation (CIC). He has held a variety of high level
posts in China, serving as Deputy Secretary-General of China's State
Council, Executive Vice Minister of Finance, Vice Governor of
Guizhou Province, Director-General of Macroeconomics Department at
the State Commission for Restructuring Economic System, Deputy Head
of Research at the Department of the General Office of the State
Council, among other positions. He has published extensively on
public finance, taxation, banking and monetary policy, international
trade and tariffs, inflation, and economic reform.

Shuilin Wang
Senior Economist, World Bank
Mr. Wang is a Senior Economist in the Development Economics Vice
Presidency. Prior to joining the Bank in 2002, he worked in Chinese
government. His last assignment was as a director-general in charge
of international comparative studies at China's State Council
Economic Restructuring Office.

PANEL DISCUSSANTS
Teresa Ter-Minassian
Director of Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
Ms. Ter-Minassian has been director of the Fiscal Affairs Department
since 2001. For eight years, she was chief of the Southern European
division in the IMF. From 1988 to 1996, she held the position of
Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the Fund. She
also headed the IMF Task Force for the joint study of the Soviet
economy. Prior to that, she served as Deputy Director of the Western
Hemisphere Department.

Martin Ravallion
Director of the Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Ravallion is Director of the Development Research Group. He has
held various position in the Bank, since joining as an economist in
1988. He has written three books and over 170 papers on poverty and
policies for fighting it. He currently serves on the editorial
boards of ten economic journals, is a Senior Fellow of the Bureau
for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, a founding council
member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality and he
serves on the advisory board of the International Poverty Research
Center.

Carlos Alberto Braga
Director, Economic Policy and Debt, PREM Network
Mr. Braga is Director of Economic Policy and Debt in the PREM
Network, and Chairman of the Economic Policy Sector Board. Since
joining the Bank in 1991, he has held managerial positions in the
Energy, Mining, and Telecommunications, Global ICT (infoDev) and ISG
groups. From 2006 until recently, as Senior Advisor for PRMVP and as
Head of IPPG , Mr. Braga led the aid architecture agenda, and
managed PREM strategic relationships with key shareholders,
bilateral agencies, and regional development banks to maximize
institutional leverage for the Bank. Prior to that, he was Senior
Advisor in the International Trade Department based in Geneva.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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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REMINDER: Zygmunt Nagorski Presenting "From Warsaw to Wherever" on Thursday, January 24 at 12:30pm at the World Bank, Auditorium 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

Thursday, January 24, 2008
12:30 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building
Auditorium JB1-080
A light lunch will follow the presentation
Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

OPENING REMARKS VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE 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: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: Zygmunt Nagorski Presenting "From Warsaw to Wherever" on Thursday, January 24 at 12:30pm 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. |
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| | "My message is to have courage to open |
| | closed doors as I did on my journey from |
| | Warsaw to America." |
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
12:30 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080
A light lunch will follow the presentation

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OPENING REMARKS VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE 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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REMINDER - "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? |
| | |
| | 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

Comments about the events program:

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Reminder: "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.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

Jenna Bush at the World Bank

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publication

Ana's Story
A Journey of Hope

Ana's life is a collection of bits and pieces of her past. Infected with HIV at
birth, she's unaware of many details of her early childhood and barely remembers
her mother. Living with her strict grandmother, she learns how to keep secrets ?
secrets about her infection and about the abuse she endures at home. But after
Ana falls in love and becomes pregnant at seventeen, she begins a journey of
hope ? a journey of protecting herself and others. She is living with HIV, not
dying from it.
Jenna Bush tells of Ana's struggle to break free from the cycle of abuse,
silence, and illness with passion and eloquence. But this is not just Ana's
story. It is also the story of many children around the world who are
marginalized, neglected, and mistreated.

For more information about the book or to order it online, please go to:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=8013738

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank H Building, Eugene Black Auditorium
1914 G street, NW Washington D.C., 20433

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For non bank staff, Please RSVP by noon, Friday 25th to
InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
Please note that this is on a first come, first served basis.

PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR
Jenna Bush

MODERATED BY
Erika Mae Lorenzana
Information and Communications Co-Chair, Y2Y Steering Committee
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

About Y2Y
Y2Y consists of young Bank Staffers, who are committed to and companionate about
development issues; believe in mainstreaming youth issues internally at the
Bank; and who are committed to the idea of forming a community of young staff
within the Bank to make effective use of fresh perspectives and ideas. Y2Y
members include World Bank Group Staff including JPAs, YPs, ETCs, ETTs and short
term consultants.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/y2ycommunity or Intranet:
http://y2ycommunity

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

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| | 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. |
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| | "My message is to have courage to open |
| | closed doors as I did on my journey from |
| | Warsaw to America." |
| | - Zygmunt Nagorski |
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
12:30 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080

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calendar

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:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Jenna Bush at the World Bank

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| | details of her early childhood and |
| | barely remembers her mother. Living |
| | with her strict grandmother, she |
| | learns how to keep secrets ? secrets |
| | about her infection and about the |
| | abuse she endures at home. But after |
| | Ana falls in love and becomes |
| | pregnant at seventeen, she begins a |
| | journey of hope ? a journey of |
| | protecting herself and others. She is |
| | living with HIV, not dying from it. |
| | Jenna Bush tells of Ana's struggle to |
| | break free from the cycle of abuse, |
| | silence, and illness with passion and |
| | eloquence. But this is not just Ana's |
| | story. It is also the story of many |
| | children around the world who are |
| | marginalized, neglected, and |
| | mistreated. |
| | |
| | For more information about the book |
| | or to order it online, please go to: |
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank H Building, Eugene Black Auditorium
1914 G street, NW Washington D.C., 20433

Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes calendar
For non bank staff, Please RSVP by noon, Friday 25th to
InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

Please note that this is on a first come, first served basis.

PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR
Jenna Bush

MODERATED BY
Erika Mae Lorenzana
Information and Communications Co-Chair, Y2Y Steering Committee
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

About Y2Y
Y2Y consists of young Bank Staffers, who are committed to and
companionate about development issues; believe in mainstreaming
youth issues internally at the Bank; and who are committed to the
idea of forming a community of young staff within the Bank to make
effective use of fresh perspectives and ideas. Y2Y members include
World Bank Group Staff including JPAs, YPs, ETCs, ETTs and short
term consultants.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/y2ycommunity or
Intranet: http://y2ycommunity